Should I move back to Detroit? Art Van probably misses me. 9-24-15
I just read a rather upbeat article about how white people are moving back to Detroit. Click here to read the article. I certainly hope these are well-armed white people.
It is no secret that I was born in Detroit. My parents had the common sense to move to the suburbs when I was only 7, thus my education was quite good. Of course I returned to Detroit often to work or live. I worked for Borman Security at Farmer Jacks, where people cut the bottoms out of 50 pound dog food bags, dumped the dog food behind the remaining bags, and filled the empty bags up with seafood and steaks. I moved back to Detroit for a year to share a house with some buddies about 30 seconds after I turned 18 (my father and I did not see eye to eye at that time). The second car repair facility that I owned was in Detroit. So was my third. I lived for quite some time in a second story flat behind my used car lot. I had the distinct pleasure of repossessing 150 of my cars from Detroit deadbeats after their loans went sour. In later years as a Private Investigator, many of my cases led to Detroit when my clients were too wise to go there and I was not.
The point is...I know Detroit. And I would NEVER move back there!! If one is to read the above article carefully, some urban pioneers are moving back for the $20,000 domicile "loan" they are not required to pay back. Some are moving back to be close to their jobs downtown (and because driving on many of the freeways from the suburbs is like navigating the roads in a third world country). I would not move back for 20 or even 200 thousand a year! How about 2 million per annum, you may ask? Yes, but only if it included 7 months of vacation time in Florida every year.
If one were to read the above article and do the math, one would conclude that about 4,000 white people were moving into Detroit every year. This would be a goodly amount if the name of the town were say....Mayberry. But it is not. You might want to sit down for this one....Detroit (not the suburbs, just Detroit proper) is an area of 143 square miles! That means this city in the most segregated area in the U.S. is filling up every year with 28 shiny new white residents per square mile. But wait. It's not filling up at all. The population declines by at least 10,000 per year. They are still dying of natural causes or moving as soon as they can afford a Uhaul truck. Or getting murdered. At the rate of 333 per year.
The Motor City's huge auto plants have mostly moved to Mexico, and the only steady jobs for Detroit High School graduates are cleaning the hotels and the 3 casinos that suck the life out of any remaining pensioners.
Even my ol' buddy Art Van, one of the most business savvy shysters in Michigan, groups his many stores in a semi-circle around Detroit itself. And even though he is white, I don't think he will be relocating to the city anytime soon. To return to the home page, click here. To visit Classic Health Institute, click here.
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