California pluses:
- Affluent, educated people clustered near the coast
- World-class universities
- Worldwide center for technology innovation
- Outstanding weather near the coast
- Good ports and infrastructure
- Large supply of surplus labor
- Tourism, tourism, tourism
- Breadbasket of the western US
- Basket case of the western US
- Crippling taxes
- High cost of living
- Polluted, crappy weather inland
- Water is running out
- Overpopulated
- Non-functioning government
- Many Californians are fleeing
- Virtually unlimited sources of fresh water
- Lots of good farmland
- Plenty of deer and raccoons to hunt in abandoned cities assures that you will never go hungry
- Cheap, plentiful housing
- World-class universities
- Large supply of surplus labor
- Friendly midwesterners eager to get to work
- Surplus machine shops ready to use
- Labor unions that don't get it
- Non-functioning government
- Horrendous winters
- Many Michiganders are fleeing
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Hi Lou! If you've got the time, the video is hilarious. The real kicker for me, though was this quote from the article:
"Detroit was once home to nearly 2 million people but has shrunk to a population of perhaps less than 900,000. It is estimated that a city the size of San Francisco could fit neatly within its empty lots."
WOW!
Not so much a "bread basket" as a basket of fruits and nuts.
We have three problems; taxes, lotus eaters and a government that sees nothing wrong with taxes and lotus eaters.
I read somewhere a while back that in 1950 Detroit had the highest median income of any city on Earth. Coming up on 60 years later, it's barely more liveable than Beirut or Baghdad. I'm pretty sure that's a testament what an inflexable, corrupt labor union can do.
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