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Among the cheapest zip codes in America (and by “cheapest” we mean areas where home prices are the lowest) the “median price of homes currently on the market is less than $15,000,” according to Business Insider.

However, the distinction of being the absolute cheapest zip code, well below the median price of $15,000, belongs to a neighborhood located in southern Detroit.

How “cheap” is this neighborhood?

Home prices in the 48208 zip code are about $6,388.

And, according to Business Insider, the neighborhood has got other issues:

  • Forty percent of households had an income under $15,000 in 2010
  • The murder risk is more than eight times the national average, and the robbery risk is nearly six times the national average
  • Thirty-one percent of residents over the age of 25 did not complete high school (twice the national average)
  • The size of 48208′s population has decreased nearly 33 percent since 1990 (and its forecasted to dip another 9.9 percent by 2014)

Is it all that bad? Judge for yourself.

48208: Americas Cheapest Zip Code

"...this two-bedroom, located in the heart of 48208, is listed for $1. The city can't give away homes in some abandoned neighborhoods. And this two-bedroom, located in the heart of 48208, is listed for $1. The city can't give away homes in some abandoned neighborhoods."

48208: Americas Cheapest Zip Code

"Decaying homes, like this one on 15th Street, also abound."

48208: Americas Cheapest Zip Code

"Lots of buildings are boarded up or burned out, like this brick structure on Warren Ave., a main drag."

48208: Americas Cheapest Zip Code

"There's still some commerce in the area. Motown Market on W. Grand Boulevard sells almost everything."

48208: Americas Cheapest Zip Code

""Harold's, the local hair and nail salon, has great reviews on Citysearch."

See the rest of the tour of this zip code at Business Insider.

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:35pm

    What a lovely union town.

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    • lodgerat
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:41pm

      Tri-ox, not only a union town but one who has been run by progressive democrats for more than 30 years.

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    • dsind
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:41pm

      its a democratic town too!

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:46pm

      Yes I knew it had to be Detroit before even reading the article …. This is what progressive rule looks like. Sadly I warned in 2008 that Obama would do for the country what Democrats have done to Michigan … the new Michigan Republican Governor is taking a lot of heat from the entitilement crowd .. I doubt that anyone can ever save Detroit from themselves .. I moved out of Michigan years ago. Just have a small cottage up in the northern part that you can’t even sell “cheap”.

      TEA!

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:57pm

      Sing it!! This is what Union thugtown Democracy looks like!

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    • the hawk
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:10pm

      In my travels I seen people living in old broken down busses , campers with kerosine heaters–wood burning stoves burning coal …….and one country mile down the road a nice 300,000$
      home with all the fixins……………..

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:16pm

      Nothing that two or three Great plagues can’t fix. Ring around the rosy, pocket full of posy, ashes, ashes we all fall down.

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    • Shiroi Raion
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:17pm

      I’ve seen a video of this area… this is actually not that bad compared to what I saw. I believe Democrats have had control of this area since (was it 1958? – something like that) if I remember correctly.
      I saw homes with feces and was told they smelled like urine, abandoned homes being squatted by homeless and drug addicts, chemicals for a meth lab in one abandoned home, needles, gang graffiti all over, empty lots where homes had once been that were now being used to grow vegetables, wild dogs…
      This place is the “poster child” for what Progressive Liberals do to what was once considered a nice place to live.

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    • BlazingPatriot
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:20pm

      WHY?

      Many, if not the majority of these people from these poverty striken areas live a life of dishonesty and unethical practices of cheating the system, lying and stealing. Theft of utilities and services is rampant and most do not know how to manage their government assistance of which generations of them have become dependent on. Family is secondary and their educational system is corrupt.

      Looks like the chickens have come home to roost.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:21pm

      This is what an “experimental” communist town in capitalist America looks like. I don’t have any prior indicators, but I’d bet you that more than 75% of towns with similar symptoms are union. Further, I’d bet you that if you went across the nation and looked at the “worst hit” they, too, would be largely union.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:21pm

      I can just picture in my mind, Obama, Andy Griffith, Aunt Bea, Opie and Barney Fife.
      Standing arm and arm in the front yard of the house in the first picture.
      Singing “My Home Town”

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ijv_CyyXxI&feature=related

      Heart warming…………………

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    • BonnieBlueFlag
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:29pm

      I’m pretty sure that Manhattan is extremely democrat-controlled and heavily pro-union. Some neighborhoods in Florida vote 80% or more for democrats and they do not look like this.

      I’m so sick of cowards not stating the truth about why Detroit looks like this. Why do Detroit, Memphis, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, etc. etc. have 20x the crime of Fargo, North Dakota??? Why??? You dang sure know why even if you don’t have the balls to say it. How does it feel to look in the mirror and see a coward, whitey?

      BonnieBlueFlag  
    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:56pm

      Detroit is DEAD and the DemoRATS did it with alittle help from Hoffa and Trumpkyites.

      Good work Union Thugs!!!!

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    • loriann12
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:56pm

      @BonnieBlueFlag

      I don‘t think it’s a race thing (black vs white), it’s a taker mentality. They’ve had everything handed to them for probably 3 generations and “don’t know no” different. There’s white trash too. Are you also aware that Detroit has the highest Muslim population?

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    • Banter
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:59pm

      @bonnieblueflag
      The only coward here is you. You are so brainwashed that “whitey” is the problem that you can’t think for yourself, just spew the old one-liners about race. Do some research and you will see that the welfare state has been doubled-down on for 60 years. There are now 100% welfare families into the 3rd and 4th generations!! Detroit has been under liberal control for 60 years, and the result is a financially and morally bankrupt city, run by corrupt liberals that keep getting elected. Wonder why that is? maybe it’s all the free stuff they promise, and only partially deliver on? They keep the welfare-chained chained to welfare, and the cycle just continues.

      By the way, try visiting Hunts Point in NYC, or St. Pete in Fla and then let us know they don’t look like this.

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    • Ben__Franklin
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 6:11pm

      All the Detroit Progressives running the show need to do is mandate that people of Detroit have to live in this Sh%$ hole. If not, they can take all their food and they can starve or eat each other for not conforming. Stalin taught them well……the people of Detroit need to fear the re-education camps but at least soothing music will be played….

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    • avenger
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 6:12pm

      harry reed,obummer amd all the poverty pimps should be proud !

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    • Ben__Franklin
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 6:19pm

      Looks like Bonnie has never seen White Trailer Trash. Looks like Bonnie grew up in a racist neighborhood as there was no white people. I am sure there is some study done by the intellectual Cornel West that shows a correlation between Whitey and the drop out rate of black American Youth from High Schools. Lets face it, in this country no black American can make it, none of them can succeed, none of them can ever rise up out of poverty, etc…..etc…. All you have to do is ask “PRESIDENT” Obama – he will tell you the exact same thing….

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    • seldomscene
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:07pm

      Did they apply to Glen for the new clothing factory?

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    • earthman92
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:21pm

      Ha ha! The Black Undertow at it’s finest!

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:52pm

      Bonnie Blue Flag – Lyndon Johnsonsaid when he signed his welfare bill for the “great society”
      “I’ll have these ni**ers voting democrat for 200 years.” He wanted them dependant on the government and convinced that the only way to get the gravy train rollling was to vote democrat.

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    • Al J Zira
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:57pm

      @BonnieBlueFlag: Ohh,Ooh, ohh! I know this one!!!! Because the family unit as we know has comepletely dissappeared? No? How about because the jobs have left town to places that are more business friendly leaving the previously overpaid union residence of the town without jobs? Yes? No? OK, how about a combination of the jobs leaving, a breakdown of the family unit and corrupt politicians? Am I right, am I, am I?!!

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    • your sensei
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 8:47pm

      Ever been to mississippi?

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    • kindling
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 8:53pm

      Just who exactly do the Democrats blame for the condition of every city or state *California* that they have ruined? I don’t care that Arnold was supposed to be a Republicanish Gov, he ran the place into the sea along with all the Libs from SF and LA. Everything the Democrats touch they turn to CR@P!

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    • SeekingTheTRUTH2
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 9:00pm

      The City is so corrupted that it had 3 mayors in one yr. it runs 2nd to chi-town

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    • Hiremeglenn
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 9:57pm

      Lowest priced homes in the nation. Massive crime, abandoned homes and busineses. Democrat mayors since 1962…priceless.

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    • ronaldg261
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 10:23pm

      This is obama’s dream for all of America. Our dream? No more obama.

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    • ltb
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 10:33pm

      *Detroit has been run by Liberal Democrats since 1961.
      *In 1950 the population of Detroit was 2 million, today it is 700,000.
      *Detroit is bankrupt.
      *One third of the Detroit population lives under the poverty line.
      *Detroit consistently ranks as America’s most dangerous, crime ridden city.
      *Detroit has the worst public school drop out rate in the nation.
      *47% of adults in Detroit are functionally illiterate.
      *Detroit’s unemployment rate is triple the national average.

      Detroit is the Democrat vision for America.

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 11:05pm

      In London, just about every church who closes their doors becomes a Mosque. May the turmoil and war within the black community keep Islam away from this community.

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    • MHP
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 12:36am

      How bout coon town, that’s what it is.

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    • MHP
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 12:38am

      Rational Man

      Mayberry isn’t even close to being that bad.

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 1:26am

      Where are the OWS people to see the outcome they will cause to come about for other communities?

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    • Shiroi Raion
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 6:43am

      Ted Nugent

      Welcome to my town High energy is all around tonight
      Woah you best beware There’s violence in the air tonight
      Well, Detroit city, she’s the place to be This mad dog town’s gonna set you free
      Oh when do we mount the stage? Gonna cause a mad dog rage Ha ha ha
      Woah when you see my name Gonna set this town aflame
      Well Detroit city’s just the place to be Murder town’s gonna set you free tonight Oh no!
      Woah those fortified motor cars High energy and it’s all ours Ha ha
      Dig this!
      Woah such a heavy place for the boys and girls, It’s the murder capital of the world
      Yeow! Well Detroit city she’s the place to be Mad dog town gonna set you free I say
      Motor City madhouse Motor City madhouse Motor City madhouse Motor City madhouse

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:02am

      Lodgerat- try 50 years.

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:22am

      See what happens when you don‘t ’tax the rich’………….LOL

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    • yiddishlion
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:45am

      @ELIASIM

      Do you even know that a ring around a rosey is a witch’s pentagram?

      yiddishlion  
    • Bill in Texas
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:45am

      This is an American city. So sad. This is exactly what Unions achieve for workers. They don’t care about people, only the money they contribute to the Union coffers.

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    • pattybbb1
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:06am

      Comments on here about Mayberry: Show was based on Mt. Airy and Pilot Mountain, N.C. I just took a trip to those towns, north of Winston-Salem. Beautiful little towns. Didn’t see anything that looked like these pictures! The actress that played Thelma Lou was in the ice cream shop that I visited, just the day before. She still lives close by.

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    • bob5944
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 3:02pm

      @ the Hawk…. You won’t find that 300k home down the street from these places in Detroit, only more of the same. Makes me both sad and angry to live in this Godforsaken state. There’s hope that people are beginning to understand where Progressive/Liberal leadership takes us. Maybe someday the monetary sinkhole we call Detroit will get it too.

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    • Carter John
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 4:35pm

      I agree with Banter. One place where NO ONE is safe is Ebor City, people from C Florida know what I mean.

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    • Yeah_Buddy
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 7:24pm

      I may sound like Charlie Brown in Charlie Brown’s Christmas story when he picks out a lame Christmas tree, but I think that white house for $1 has excellent potential.

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    • SenorStrange
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:03pm

      Don’t criticize it too much, we are all going to be living in a neiborhood like this if Obama is re-elected.

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    • Candide33
      Posted on October 29, 2011 at 8:18pm

      And the most expensive zip code in the country is Greenwich, Conn., with a median price of $2,983,00 ALSO a democrat city.

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    • donbrending
      Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:06am

      Do you like the 40 hr. work week? Do you like at least a seat at the table where others decide your future? Do you like unemplyment Ins. should your co. close or send your job overseas? THEN THANK A UNION, *******!!!

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    • KKC003
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 8:52pm

      you are right on, unions are a disaster- just another criminal enterprise.
      If it was so great dues would be optional and voting would be private!
      I can say this- my father was in a union, Union stole 2 x from pension and destroyed every single worker- my dad was there 47 years and hated every minute of it. But if you leave they hunt you down- its a disgrace. his pension is less than $300 a month after 47 years- from all the internal theft. PS his kids are all SELF EMPLOYED!

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  • kadster01
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:32pm

    Isn’t this how ghost towns usually begin?

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    • freeus
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:45pm

      Shovel ready.

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    • SeekingTheTRUTH2
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 9:03pm

      Detriot’s be shovel Ready for YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • AmericanStrega
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 12:40pm

      “This town. Whoaaaa-ohh, is lookin’ like a ghost-town. Whoaaa-ohh”

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  • cntrlfrk
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:30pm

    ‘
    Higher taxes and more regulations are sure to turn this place around!

    .
    :o/

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  • bluzrider
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:30pm

    Yes folks, it really does look like this, and some of these pictures don’t really do it the justice it deserves. I live in the metro Detroit area and have been in every nook, cranny, and alley in this city at one time or another over the last 40 years. The degradation of this town is downright criminal, and we have a lot of people in jail right now to prove it. There should be a lot more of the cities so called leaders who should join them in jail, but that will never happen.

    Take a good look at what liberalism combined with corruption has done to this city, because this is your future you are looking at. This is also the result of racism, by both black and whites, no one race is to blame, both share the responsibility. Don’t let anyone tell you anything different.

    When you just give people a way of life where they do not have to work for what they get, and they just sit, do their dope, prey on innocent people to fed their habits, what do you think is going to happen. Nothing good that’s for sure, and nothing has.

    I have no idea how we get out of this mess, because the list of corrupt people are just waiting in line to get their share of the government pie.

    So take a good hard look my friends, this is not the America I grew up believing in, but it is the America that we are turning into, your time is coming. Unless you change things and I mean right now, Detroit will not be the only city that looks like this, your town will be next.

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    • fatjack
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:44pm

      Excellent post with first hand insight. “I have no idea how we get out of this mess, because the list of corrupt people are just waiting in line to get their share of the government pie”.

      “Government pie” and the unions are Detroit’s problem.

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:49pm

      Well said BLUZRIDER . I used to live in Jackson and work in Ann Arbor — on the rare occasion that I would go to Detroit I saw the decline first hand also. I have not been in a few years but I don’t see it getting any better. I left the state years ago .. one “term” of Granholm was more than enough for me.

      TEA!

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    • Spirit 72
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:13pm

      You could start by making it a “right to work” state. But of course, that would mean that you would first have to elect conservatives.

      Having lived north of Detroit in a nicer neighborhood for 13 years (20 years ago) this was handwriting on the wall, so we left.

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    • bigpew
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:34pm

      Fatjack,
      Personal responsibility is the answer to every problem we face. We need to take care of our own business and help when asked or when faced with an obvious need.
      God bless America.
      Tea

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    • Cat
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:47pm

      Thank you Bluzrider for the hands on …
      Was given a special tour of Michigan about 10 years ago starting in Lansing.
      Met some wonderful people all over the state, in up-state and Mackinac Island.
      Detroit was not on the itinerary.
      It’s a damn shame to see what democrats have done to Michigan.
      My guide is from Mt. Pleasant, and is now my loving bride.
      She tells me constantly she lives in paradise now, and only returns to Michigan to care for family matters.

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    • fatjack
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:54pm

      bigpew
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:34pm

      Fatjack,
      Personal responsibility is the answer to every problem we face.
      ====================================================
      “American pie” negates personal responsibility.

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:58pm

      @SPIRIT 76

      I have a friend in the Michigan State Senate .. he supports “right to work” legislation but as this article states it won’t be easy.

      http://blog.mlive.com/jackson-politics/2011/06/post_130.html

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    • Mike N
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:58pm

      The only way to turn this around is to “MAKE” the freeloaders work for their survival. They will never turn their lives around on their own.

      Pay them for half a week of work, and for successful testing after half a week of learning, but don’t let them just grow roots in the sofa watching TV or playing video games while they wait for the next benefits check to jump off the gravy train.

      I don’t care if they pick up trash, deliver groceries for the elderly and infirmed, mow municipal lawns, paint over graffiti or sort recyclables, but they need to do something for the benefits paid.

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    • JMorcan
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:05pm

      People who call it “Right to Work” are admitting there’s a moral problem with these laws. Otherwise, they’d call it “Right to Fire.”

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    • Jerbear1098
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 8:10pm

      You’re absolutely right. Look at what is happening with the Wayne county executive. The amount of money and the federal probes now in progress. I won’t be surprised to see all of them in federal prison by next year. Who hands out a $200,000.00 severance check to QUIT a job for a better job? Wayne county does. If this lady is fired from her new job, she gets a winfall of $750,000.00. Talking about a GOLDEN Parachute !!!

      Now people, look at those houses. This kind of crap has been going on for decades here in the metro Detroit area.

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 11:06pm

      Only 15K for a house! Who does that? 15K getz a heleva lot of crack!

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    • JERSEYJUDE
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:37am

      @BLUZRIDER Bigg Huggs to you!…Love your words. My daughter married a man from Michigan and they live north of Detroit. My first visit to Michigan I couldn’t wait to see the infamos Detroit. All I did was cry. They are doing the very same thing to towns and cities in New Jersey.

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  • cloudsofwar
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:30pm

    this is your city run by democRATS. the OWS people should go there.

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    • bluzrider
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:38pm

      No they shouldn’t come here, we have enough problems without them.

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    • SeekingTheTRUTH2
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 9:07pm

      Detroit’s been run by RATS for a long time. and the nut-jobs/lazy ass/dumbdumbs, (OWS) they wouldn’t last 5 minutes here,(and thats being nice…lol) never mind if they spent the night.

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    • SeekingTheTRUTH2
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 9:15pm

      OWS nut-jobs/dumb Ass‘s Retards wouldn’t last 2 minutes never mind if they spent a night in the D!!! (Detroit)

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  • cynthiaaknox
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:29pm

    My grandparents lived in Detroit when they came through Ellis Island from Poland in the early 1900s. My Mom used to take us as kids and drive by the old house where she grew up, and she would cry when she saw the condition of the house, because she said her Dad took such pride in their house, took meticulous care of the lawn, everything painted, in order, beautiful. Eventually, the house was torn down… everything has a season I suppose.

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    • lapua338shooter
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:16pm

      Hmmmm… The second photo of the 2 story….
      I wonder if I can qualify for any of that low interest mortgage money….

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    • BernieKittyCat
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:51am

      My mother-in-law was born and raised in Detroit until the ‘67 riots. A former classmate of hers, who became a police officer, said he gets calls to her old house on a regular basis because it’s now a den of drug dealing. Half the windows are boarded up, the gutters are hanging off the roof, and there is 4 feet of standing water in the basement. Detroit is lost. The neighborhoods will never be improved. The rest of Wayne County would do well to seceed from the county and leave Detroit on her own.

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  • 762x51
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:29pm

    What you do is buy one for $100.00, announce a giant Support Obama / kill the bankers / eat the rich or what ever moronic cause the locals will fall for, street party complete with bonfire and collect a $1 or $2 donation from the 500 to 10000 locals who will show up. The scene is lighted by the bonfire which is the shack burning to the ground. You then let the city take it back for taxes while you deposit your $1,000 – $20,000 profit. Repeat as many times as desired until you can retire.

    Who cares what happens to the area? If the locals will not take matters in hand to improve their lot, i.e., STOP ELECTING LIBERAL STATEISTS, then I can’t care what happens to them.

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    • 65Mustang
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:10pm

      Stop electing liberal activists…put the political criminals in jail, top down.

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    • lapua338shooter
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:29pm

      @762X51 —— May we call you “308” for short?

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    • bikerr
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:51pm

      Your only flaw is that you would be robbed before you got away.And who’s gonna have the money in the first place?.

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  • garyM
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:28pm

    The government poured million of dollars into Detroit over the last 30 years, that’s what you get when the government does that!

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    • lapua338shooter
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:22pm

      I think those can be purchased only with “Obama Bucks”….
      You know, the currency “ol G. Washington & In God We Trust has been removed & replaced with a picture of the Big “O” and the new national slogan — For Mohammed We Shall Martyr”

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  • tony k
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:27pm

    I see potential in everyone of those propertys.But that takes work determination and will power and Americans are lacking it those areas right now. Hey Cheif search Ghost cities of China. Id buy a Leberial a one way ticket to one of those cities

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    • Goobergregory
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:59pm

      Tony, the only potential I see in these properties.. is the potential to end up DEAD if you “occupy” it!

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  • True American66
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:26pm

    The irony here is that those “displaced” people will vote for Barry again.

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  • Walkabout
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:26pm

    I would move into a 2 story brick home that was a fixer upper in a heart beat. Prerequisites: Low crime rate, good schools & low taxes. Just not happening with a a Democrat mayor & Democrat state government.

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  • babylonvi
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:26pm

    The Federal Reserve doesn’t have enough money to get me to live there.

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    • 762x51
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:31pm

      The Federal Reserve doesn’t have ANY money. That is the problem. It should be called the Federal Void.

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  • fatjack
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:25pm

    And yet “”Harold’s, the local hair and nail salon, has great reviews on Citysearch.” is thriving. That speaks volumes.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:37pm

      If you looked you would probably find out that the only folks working are city and county employees. With nice government wages they have plenty of money for the corn rows and manicured toes.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:25pm

    It is Detroit… not far from Liberal, Wayne State University! Where all the Mayors have been Liberals, and most have gone to Jail!

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:41pm

      Detroit has had 60 mayors. Only 3 have gone to jail.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:15pm

      I stand corrected… some were not Prosecuted by the Democrat DA’s… and some found Innocent by the Democrat Jury. But, alike Chicago, it’s aways been a Corrupt System!

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    • RED_JOHN
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 6:52am

      Lloyd:
      So you’re telling me Young (20 years in office) wasn’t an ABSOLUTE criminal? These pictures show exactly what the Democratic Party has done to Detroit EXACTLY. The negative accounts are exactly the mentality of the citizens the city. One corrupt politician after another i.e. Kilpatrick & Ficano.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 1:17pm

      Young never went to jail–though he should have.

      Of the 3 mayors who have done time, 2 were Democrats and 1 was a Republican.

      I don’t count the one who was a British POW during the War of 1812.

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  • gmoneytx
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:20pm

    The picture of the licka store is the one Moochele Obummer was talking about with the vegetables!

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:20pm

    Modern day ghost towns should not be surprising. Things change and people move on. Its going to happen more and more the worse things get out there.

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  • Therightsofbilly
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:19pm

    Doin the Detroit Breakdown……
    The Motor City Shakedown…..

    J, Geils Band

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  • drago
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:18pm

    Hmmm, i wonder who lived//lives there……..

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:28pm

      Good ‘ol Detroit. Don’t be fooled by the empty houses folks, there’s plenty of people there. You can find ‘em all in the welfare line.

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  • Ookspay
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:16pm

    The nexus of democratic governmant and union extortion!

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  • SKIPIG
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:16pm

    We should get a bunch of people together; buy all the properties valued at less than $100.00; tear those houses down; declare they are solar energy sites; and, then apply for Obama Dollars.

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    • Ookspay
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:18pm

      The gangs would steal all the copper and parts..

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    • Mo Better
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:22pm

      You‘d better be sure you have the required melanin level or that you’re a bundler of Barry bucks working to get the Monstrosity-In-The-White-House a second term in the Awful/Offal/Oaf-full Office, otherwise you‘ll only get a knock of the door from Eric the Traitor Holder’s jackbooted thugs arresting you for illegally claiming a green energy site that is non-functional……. unless, of course, your name is Solyndra.

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    • Mercy2011
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:31pm

      RIGHT ON!!! You little capitalist thinking 1%er you! I LOVE IT!!!

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    • oeaoho
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:34pm

      There’s not that much sunlight in Detroit to even come close for this to be a real project. So we would be guaranteed to get the money from Oboma… good thinking SKIPIG, I’m in!!!

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    • just my opinion maybe not yours
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:14pm

      I was thinking the same thing, Buy a block or 2 tear all the homes down and sit on the property until the city and state turns around! Now you have a prime building area, you are now a land barron and can sell to the highest bidder!! If enough Conservitives do this the town could become a republican town and push the progressives out! That would be a WIN WIN situation!!!

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:16pm

    heck, that could be any one of the numerous ghettoed towns south and west of Chicago that used to be clean happy industrious prosperous neighborhoods before the black race riots and White Flight of the late 1960s. Entire towns are total desolate ghettos now because the whites moved en masse to get away from the incoming tidal wave of the black on white crimes.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:23pm

      Ford Heights &Chicago Heights come to mind

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    • PPMStudios
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:54pm

      And the government caused it all. LBJ’s “War on Poverty” set all this in motion. To date, there has been close to $3 Trillion spent on the War on Poverty and all it’s done is pretty much what everyone has mentioned in the various threads on this page.

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  • Charlie Justice
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:16pm

    Brought to you by:
    The progressive social liberals and the useful democratic idiots that continue to elect them.

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    • lapua338shooter
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:34pm

      Leave them as they are, send in a professional videographer, shoot a whole bunch of footage from every conceivable angle and use it for a nice commercial…

      “This is what Democracy looks like”
      This message has been approved by the Democratic Party of AmeriKa…..

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:15pm

    Huh looks like Barrys utopia.

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    • cloudsofwar
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:34pm

      Obamas socialist states of amerika. includes all 57 states that he campaigned in.

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    • bobandruth2416
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 3:30pm

      Everybody depending on the gov. is the goal….
      I think even ‘extended’ unemployment pay should be a loan (either partial or total), giving the recipient some sense responsibility. If the unions would allow, they could work off the extended unemployment pay. Years ago, during the expansion of a highway out of San Diego, they attempted to use prison labor to cut the cost to taxpayers, but were shut down by the unions…love them!!

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  • ENTITLEMENTSBLOW
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:14pm

    Detroit Sucks, well atleast The Lions are improving!

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    • Ookspay
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:20pm

      Lol, The lions are benefitting from the NFL equivalent of affirmative action, easy schedule for last years losers.

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  • Mo Better
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:14pm

    Under MAObama this is the future for many of the minority dominated inner cities.

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