Wow Sandy, that's crazy! It's sad to see some of the beautiful architecture falling apart from neglect.
G-gal, we have so many homes boarded up and missing the aluminum siding, it's insane!!! The entire neighborhood where I grew up is now nothing but a ghetto. Where I live is the last decent neighborhood left, and with all the homes in it that are for sale, I fear it's going to go to heck very soon. The SEV of our house fell $9,000 this past summer......that's $18,000 of the actual sale value if we decided to sell.
Thats sad when whole neighborhoods disappear. All those lives that were intertwined suddenly scatter.
Its also sad when neighborhoods we grew up in change so radically and in this case not for the better. That happened to one of the neighborhoods I grew up in as well.
That's so sad, especially when you look at the places you remember fondly that are crumbling before your eyes. I know Milwaukee hasn't been that bad off, but it is alarming to see the number of empty storefronts and overgrown or boarded up houses in some of the nicest middle-class areas in town.
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When my brother left the Navy 4 years ago and finally came back home to Saginaw, he couldn't believe it was the same city where he grew up. He was in other states and countries for 22 years; he was shocked at how many neighborhoods had changed during the time he was gone.
Yeah, but it's not really squatters per se........it's the dang dopers, dealers, and gangbangers taking them over. Crack houses up the wahzoo......the police can't keep up with them.
That's why I keep telling my husband I want to move. He wants to stick around 2 more years until he retires, but I'm ready to pack and go now. Moving up to the cabin looks better and better to me every day.
I would think a lot of that is predicated on the down turn of the auto industry and industry in general. The rust belt , not just Detroit, has had to adapt.
Sadly, not much is made in this country anymore. I see alot of "made in China" labels. I think that has a little to do with it as well. Jobs go oversees. Once thriving neighborhoods vanish. It is sad.
