Streetview in poor areas of the USA...

Flint and Detroit are the two worst places over here. I think Flint was recently named the most violent city in the US and Detroit has been hovering around the top spot for a long time.

Anyway, having lived in both the UK and US I can say that I'd take Detroit over Dudley any day of the week :D
 
HAz said:
No but i live on a road that has about 1000 houses all attached in a long line, with tiny gardens and no parking. Ive seen much worse in this country, take Plymouth for example, what a **** hole.
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Welcome to the industrial revolution, that was amazing housing back then and still is, dont knock its, its a roof, with heating and water and electricity.

:rolleyes:

Recession is hitting hard around me

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...d=J5YbToOkwefyq0YyFZD5_Q&cbp=12,58.33,,0,9.04

Not, that house has been like that since I was a kid haha
 
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I love Google Street view. I find the way America operates so interesting. They have such a much larger scale of abandonment than we do, probably due to their greater influence of throw away culture.
 
ste2005 said:
Where i used to live:D


http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...VIFY_PWbG8fmCOJV9KR8aQ&cbp=12,315.29,,0,12.31
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Does that lad in black have a bottle of cider or a loaf of warburtons, tbh areas like that just need razing, to the ground, they have a home yet spend all day doing nothing but drinking, Y3 thats Adidas design wear, even I cant afford that and I work

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lmao

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...3.758441,-1.468806&spn=0.000566,0.001206&z=20

Poverty breeds crime
 
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Spit said:
Just been looking around random areas of Detroit and Flint. OMG I am shocked at the poverty. Go look to the north of Flint and there's miles of housing and most are boarded up with rubbish strewn everywhere. Most of the houses look like wooden sheds. Businesses boarded up, there was a car sales business with about 3 cars for sale when it had room for hundreds. Scary stuff.

I knew certain areas where devastated with the car industry etc but it's bonkers when your looking down the streets like that.

I work around hull and we have some not so nice areas but nothing like that.

Random thread i know but it's like a third world country!!

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=flint+michigan&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=28.110862,30.981445&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Flint,+Genesee,+Michigan,+United+States&ll=43.070144,-83.700352&spn=0.002114,0.002913&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=43.070223,-83.700539&panoid=45eSUI8byxOEaWOBRvkGyA&cbp=12,355.52,,0,8.56
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Looks like a fairly normal street to me? :confused: Sure the roads are a bit run down but that's typical of many places here.
 
Poor America is very poor, rich America is very rich. Anyone who has seen more of the US than international drive and disney can tell you this.
 
Alex_6n2 said:
I love Google Street view. I find the way America operates so interesting. They have such a much larger scale of abandonment than we do, probably due to their greater influence of throw away culture.
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that and land is much more valuable here :p
 
Yeah Flint is pretty rough. I was working out there and just randomly saw a guy walk out of his house and pee on a car parked on the other side of his street. That's with me and four other engineers in hard hats and high-vis vests just standing in clear view.

Many of the houses have boards or bin bags covering up the windows. It is a very odd place. Travel about 10 miles south and you got houses with swimming pools and golf carts to get around the garden.

Detroit however is coming along... slowly. There's a decent night life there, with events ranging from techno to jazz and a ton of live concerts. The big casinos and baseball ball park really bring in a lot of people too and keep the place in business. In fact last time I was in Detroit it was for a detroit restaurant week. I walked through the door and there were four models dressed to greet and look the part, we had some of the poshest food my ugly mug has ever mowed on and it was all in a restaurant about 30 stories high. View was incredible as was the food. All for free too!
 
That's really rather terrible. How can the US criticize the UK when it has such things it is obviously in no rush to deal with. Especially given as its the, if not one of the most wealthy countries in the world. I dont know how things work around there, but the roads are poorly maintained, if at all, the grass doesn't look like its been cut for ages... don't they pay tax or?
 
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To me flint michigan didnt look 'poor' at all and there looks to be some half decent houses. (just had a quick look and around 264 ruth avenue look fine)
The proper poor areas will not be google mapped, places like huge areas off the Yangtze river in China where the people on rubbish dumps tree houses on mud slides, areas of bangkok are terrible, parts of india and I imagine also parts of many other counteries like iraq, africa etc
 
andy said:
the houses/areas your looking at are mostly abandoned. thats why they look scruffy and poor. who do you expect to pay for and look after abandoned houses ? we have similar abandoned areas in this country but its just on a bigger scale over there (like everything else in the US !) over here we bulldoze them but over there i guess they still have too much hope of things turning around

detroit was the fastest growing city in USA (maybe the world ?) for years people travelled from all around the country to go there and make money. then the motor industry collapsed and no one had any reason to be there anymore so everyone left

the city area was pretty much purpose built for a population of 2 million people. there are around only 0.8 million people there now including a HUGE amount of homeless who have moved across the country because they know theres plenty of empty houses there :o

detroit fascinates me
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This. There are large areas of Detroit that are essentially modern ruins. There was a documentary film on BBC2 a while back, Requiem for Detroit which explores some of the ruins - old factories, department stores, houses and compares it with the glory years of the '50s. Absolutely fascinating.
 
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