About detroit (middle-class, house, place to live)

[BRAZILIAN]

Why Detroit is so decay?? I cannot believe it is happen with an USA city.What happen??

[and the]

Because we don't have the women, beaches or climate that you have in Rio. You know that Carnivale thing you folks do down there? The Detroit version is called the "Hoedown". Google it. You probably get a hoe down every now and then at Carnivale, but this is a different kind of hoedown.

[Jwo85]

• The Auto Industry is the majority of the economy in the area.
• The majority of the Middle-Class and Rich left the city for the suburbs thus leaving the city to the poor and lower class people.
• City Politicians only caring about themselves and not the city and the people.

Those are the big 3 main ones.

[Tiger Beer]

Brazilians can't believe a lot of things about America.

I'm an American guy and lived in Brazil for six months. Believe me, I LOVED Brazil, immensily.

But the preconceptions of Americans was pretty funny. Brazil is so financially divided, that it is quite common to have maids. This is something that is almost unheard of in America.

I shared a house with about 50 Brazilians in a pension house. They were in shock that I did my own laundry and cooked my own meals. They were under the impression that all 365 million Americans are SO rich, that we ALL hire maids. The percantage of Americans with maids is SIGNIFICANTLY less than the percantage of Brazilians with maids.

Anyways, U.S. cities are and have been deteriotating for a long time. You'll also see tons of homeless everywhere as well.

Actually one of the things I loved so much about Brazil, was it reminded me so much of home - (I'd lived in Asia and Europe prior to giving Brazil a shot as a place to live). Well, things REMINDED me of home in many ways, with one noticeable exception. In Brazil, the poverty is in the fravelas, or the hillsides. Whereas in the U.S., it is right in the middle of the cities. Cities like Detroit, the people with money moved out, wheras in Brazil, the people with the money move in, and those without end up moving out. It's inverse.

So, it was actually VERY nice to live in Pinherios of Sao Paulo, and later Copocabana of Rio, and be in the center of everything, and have lots of people around.

[Vicman]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

Anyways, U.S. cities are and have been deteriotating for a long time. You'll also see tons of homeless everywhere as well.

Most cities are now past this point; instead the inner ring suburbs are decaying. But Detroit is in an odd situation as it is not recovering and not receiving an influx of well-to-do people.

[Nordschleife]

Originally Posted by BRAZILIAN

Why Detroit is so decay?? I cannot believe it is happen with an USA city.What happen??

NAFTA, GATT, WTO, CAFTA, FTAA... arrogant executives and an apathetic public. Same all over the USA and world, really.

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

Brazilians can't believe a lot of things about America.

I'm an American guy and lived in Brazil for six months. Believe me, I LOVED Brazil, immensily.

But the preconceptions of Americans was pretty funny. Brazil is so financially divided, that it is quite common to have maids. This is something that is almost unheard of in America.

I shared a house with about 50 Brazilians in a pension house. They were in shock that I did my own laundry and cooked my own meals. They were under the impression that all 365 million Americans are SO rich, that we ALL hire maids. The percantage of Americans with maids is SIGNIFICANTLY less than the percantage of Brazilians with maids.

Anyways, U.S. cities are and have been deteriotating for a long time. You'll also see tons of homeless everywhere as well.

Actually one of the things I loved so much about Brazil, was it reminded me so much of home - (I'd lived in Asia and Europe prior to giving Brazil a shot as a place to live). Well, things REMINDED me of home in many ways, with one noticeable exception. In Brazil, the poverty is in the fravelas, or the hillsides. Whereas in the U.S., it is right in the middle of the cities. Cities like Detroit, the people with money moved out, wheras in Brazil, the people with the money move in, and those without end up moving out. It's inverse.

So, it was actually VERY nice to live in Pinherios of Sao Paulo, and later Copocabana of Rio, and be in the center of everything, and have lots of people around.

Actually, thanks to gentrification, you are actually seeing people with money moving back into parts of cities and many of the poor moving out to suburbs.

[and the]

I shared a house with about 50 Brazilians in a pension house.

If we had 50 Brazilians dollars, we could wipe out the deficit and stimulate the economy!

[zthatzmanz28]

It was the SEX, LIES, and TEXT MESSAGES....