but now I'm sad that I haven't been watching it all along.

Me too! I just watched the episode where Finn and Jake decide to fight evil non-violently which causes nothing but trouble.

Jilli! It has vampires, and they're bitey.

I've just been poking around LinkedIn, and making the assumption that people started their Bachelor's around age 18, I'm older than my former boss, and the same age as my current one. It's quite weird.

Hey ita, do you know anything about tearing down the houses in Detroit? DH just mentioned that it's been going on for a while. A way to fight urban blight I guess?

Hey ita, do you know anything about tearing down the houses in Detroit? DH just mentioned that it's been going on for a while. A way to fight urban blight I guess?

I don't know if this is related, but there's a movement to shrink the size of Detroit's footprint so that it can have tight, but workable/vital urban core. So they're tearing stuff down.

It is, but one of the things they are doing in their regentrification efforts include going into primarily minority neighborhoods and buying homes from folks that have been there for 50+ years. These people worked and worked and worked and paid off their homes and raised their families in these homes. That doesn't lend itself to equity value, but because the surrounding neighborhoods are bad and the economy is totally shit, they are barely being offered more than what they paid for the home in the 1960's. And just off the horizon, less than two miles from these homes, are very large McMansions being built. With HOAs that will pay premium monies for otherwise city-utilized services such as snow removal and quite possibly garbage removal.

Yeah, they're trying to shrink the city by "encouraging" people to move elsewhere by stopping public services to various neighbourhoods. And then once they clear a neighbourhood, they tear it down.

Yeah, they're trying to shrink the city by "encouraging" people to move elsewhere by stopping public services to various neighbourhoods. And then once they clear a neighbourhood, they tear it down.

So the same subtext behind efforts to shrink the footprint in New Orleans after Katrina - a minority relocation program.

Ugh, so it's kinda what I thought. Creepy.

What brought this up was that we were looking on Google Maps and noticed that there are some neighborhoods in LA that look like they are doing something similar. Blocks and blocks where most of the houses have been torn down, with a house here and there between the empty lots.

I don't know if this is related, but there's a movement to shrink the size of Detroit's footprint so that it can have tight, but workable/vital urban core. So they're tearing stuff down.

There are about a kabillion houses for sale (according to zillow) for a couple of thousands of dollars, but they have some note about the buyer having to disclose. I am assuming it is about the shrinking footprint.

ETA: I can totally imagine them doing it here in Rochester as well. The property listings I show you guys for 50,000 aren't even in the bad neighborhoods!

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