Abandoned Detroit Draws Pranksters, Artists

All thanks to stupid management, greedy lazy unions, and politicians corrupted by the money from the industry. Detroit dug that hole themselves by making cars with no regard for the future of the fuel for those cars.

if you ran through an abondon building now you would get muged/raped/high/murdered/and stuck in the leg with a discarded needle. Detroit is past redemption, its time for demolition, and that is not a joke! BERUIT

As a Detroit resident, I live in the city in a neighborhood and walk to work (yeah... you CAN do that in the city) I will tell you that the number of movies being shot here over the past year (thanks to an EXTREMELY generous state tax incentive) would shock you. The local governments get next-to-nothing from the filming, but the films hire "people" to stand guard in front of the equipment overnight or to serve as nannies for the production crew's children. Jobs. Not careers or anything with benefits. But with an unemployment rate of about 60%.... hey, people will take anything. Unfortunately, a lot of the "pranksters" are indeed non-residents who view the city as their giant "life on the edge" playground. People that should be living here (many of my colleagues for instance) don't even think about it. They come up with all sorts of excuses as to why they don't. I think I know the main reason. There are no easy answers here, but I continue to stand by my contention that Detroit is the harbinger of things to come for the rest of the nation. Even places that seem like they would be immune to the bottom falling out of the American economic system. Treating a city and its residents as a giant living lab or as your personal no holds barred fun zone is all to common here. And NO, I am not a native, nor booster of Detroit.

Meant 30 % unemployment btw. Typo, although it does sometimes feel like it around these parts.