Streetview in poor areas of the USA...

The sad thing is that these would once have been vibrant, relatively affluent communities. I believe Detroit has been described as America's first third world city.
 
that first proper link to google maps with the ravaged RV. Go across the road at the cross roads and its like a different world. Nice kept lawns and large houses
 
Haven't got any Streetview links, but Los Angeles.... such a dump. Was literally a third world ghetto. (Well once we got to the hotel it was fine, but such contrast!)
 
Having thought about this a bit more, I'm not so sure that such decay is a bad thing. Detroit has passed its prime and the people have left. Many of those people will hopefully have moved on to better things. The British way seems to maintain communities where there are no longer any jobs, effectively trapping whole generations in poverty. It's tough for those left behind, but I would question why they stay at all.
 
cheets64 said:
Really, I have seen a few board up homes but not street after street after street.
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The only reason we're not the same is that we never had the space - in America there's room to just pack up and move on, developers leave the abandoned places alone and build afresh elsewhere.

In this country eventually a developer just razes the area and builds on top - so we see less of this.

What we do have is acres of old industrial estate (seeing as we don't make things any more) - tons of it in Glasgow, Sheffield, etc - I don't know if it's harder for developers to work this land - maybe much of it is dangerous.

This thread reminds me of the one about Foxconn factory conditions - tbh the linked pictures don't scream poverty to me - just abandonment. The US is HUGE, it's hard to compare, and there are a LOT of grotty places in the UK.

I wonder sometimes how many of the forum users live comfortably with Mum and Dad in a nice 3bed semi and haven't yet ventured out to live on their own in a city and seen local destitution first hand...
 
Link in OP still looks more attractive than Thamesmead IMO.

At above: Why the heck are they all boarded up? :confused: I presume the council are housing former tenants in plush places now?
 
Interesting to see this, seems £14,400 could go a long way here...maybe even live a very comfortable life style, with possibly 2 holidays a year...hmmmmm
 
PianoBasher said:
At above: Why the heck are they all boarded up? :confused: I presume the council are housing former tenants in plush places now?
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The residents were moved out for two-fold reasons - that end of the estate is right on top of a massive network of coal mines, they were having dangerous levels of gases rising - and there was a spate of arson attacks up there that prompted the authorities just to chalk on the whole area and move the folk on. There are one or two houses still standing up there with the typcial old pensioner 'I'm not moving for love nor money' attitude.

As for where the other former residents are now, I hope they haven't been kitted out with new places, there really isn't anywhere decent around that area and the general attitude is summed up by the fact that our company run a 20-hour a day bus service round that way and one night I was operating a service down the very road you can see in my link and I counted the sound of 9 (nine) air rifle pellets hitting the side of the vehicle, three housebricks hurled and a couple of food-bags full of either dog or human excrement thrown too.

Not just kids doing this either, fully grown adults - some with their offspring in tow were partaking in such activities.
 
There is a reason its $2000. Probably high crime area. Its the same in cleveland, ohio. Some parts you can get a house for $2000. But if you check the reports for the area, theres a very good risk of being burgled and shot.
 
doofski said:
There is a reason its $2000. Probably high crime area. Its the same in cleveland, ohio. Some parts you can get a house for $2000. But if you check the reports for the area, theres a very good risk of being burgled and shot.
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I imagine you get no kitchen or bathroom with it. On probably you need to spend at least 10k to make it habitable again.
 
Curio said:
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
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Did you live in Dudley and now you've moved over to Michigan?

Where about in Michigan?
 
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