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Flint- on a footbridge over I69- adjacent to a nature preserve named "Happy Hollow".

 

I feel for the people, it's a tough town that Flint. A long drive from texas that's for sure

 

It has been economically pillaged. Lots of respect for the folks living there.

 

Similar type of shot this last weekend right here at home.

 

The Christmas Tree Shop.... god I hate that store.

 

Cheap candles is the only reason I put up with it.... and its parking lot offers a nice birds-eye perspective of moving traffic.

 

better than putting up with this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxZj567NP74"]Flint, Michigan: Urban Decay in the USA - YouTube

 

^^indeed^^

Saw lots of that when visiting. Again, it has been economically plundered and abandoned by its plunderers. Sooo much decay and suffering.

 

I'd like to go drive around Detroit and Flint just to see how bad things are down there.

 

last time I was in flint I counted over 10 liquor stores on Michigan ave(?), 1/4 mile down the road was a world class automotive musem...talk about contrast and misplaced priorities

Detroit is more interesting to drive through... ghettos are more dense and thare are more places of interest.

 

this is happening everywhere in small town, usa. not as obvious or extreme, but it's coming. but you know that already.

 

Indeed I do.

When people who are supposed to be responsible for safeguarding our economic security and sovereignty are basically pretending to care and only paying lip service to solving the problems all the while investing their assets in a way calculated to make money off our demise then it's pretty clear that this metaphorical HMS Titanic has the intended destination of the iceberg.

It is by design I think- there's no real intention of fixing anything- just preserving bubbles long enough for cronies to cash out before it all comes tumbling down. Manufacturing is cheaper elsewhere and our currency has been decimated... there's next to nothing to invest in here and no payoff to them in rebuilding the economy so they play charades and print up new, inflating fiat currency to placate- all the while diverting us with class warfare tactics and turning terms like "corporate jets" into buzz words in keeping us pissed at the very wealthy- which is easy- they do deserve our contempt- almost as much as our government.

Some decay for ya (didn't snap many)






Coming to a town near you... because the government couldn't possibly care less.

 

superb summery of what's going on the micro :2thumbsup:

the Macro picture is just now coming into focus...the real big bang, get ready

 

Unfortunately they're everywhere

Hotwater​

 

i love the christmas tree shop

 

i never heard of a christmas tree shop before this thread.

 

me neither ...but i heard of some stupid town in Michigan that sells christmas junk all year round

cant remember the name

edit:..i think its frankenmuth

 

frankenmuth would be correct...they also have a cool german festival in the summer. bavarian fest.

 

The Bronners Christmas Store. My family owns that store you're talking about. It was my late Great uncle Wally who started it.