What is your country's Detroit?
Here it's Łódź.
What is your country's Detroit?
Asher Howard
Thomas Hall
Looks like a clean shithole, so it's not that bad.
Hunter Long
it can be dirty in some places but it's more about ruined buildings and dying industry
Daniel Turner
Ostrava. It used to be a mining town. Then the Velvet revolution happened and coal mining stopped getting subsidized. So now the town is full of commies reminiscing about the glory days.
Colton Collins
Berlin, Düsseldorf, Offenbach
Lucas Morgan
>Berlin
Isn't it full of hippies along with minorities?
James Jenkins
Marseilles. It's the former counterweight of Paris, the cultural capital of occitent, the half south of France, an industrial powerhouse and a major trade hub of the mediteranean.
Now, just what Alger would be if there were no cops nor jobs.
Nicholas Clark
I'm pretty sure Balbriggan has the highest percentage black population here so I'll go with that
Cooper Johnson
We don't have any cities that would be exceptionally run down or anything but the entire rural part of the Latgale region is simply dying out. All the young people flock to the cities or emigrate, the old farts die off and Scandinavian owned factory farms buy up the land that hasn't been too run down yet gradually forcing the few remaining people off it. Hundreds of former villages just lying there with no people
Jason Cox
Wait. Is Detroit still the worst city in America?
Lucas Roberts
It's Trbovlje, once a mining town now full of old, poor people mostly of Bosnian/Serbian descent living in commieblocks
Ethan Richardson
It has the highest chimney in Europe tho
Thomas Nguyen
Well yeah, just like Detroit
Blake Nguyen
Why is it dying?
Grayson Brown
my whole country is one big detroit.
Julian Hughes
Doesn't look bad
Isaac Ortiz
Rotterdam used to have a Detroit like reputation but nowadays it's doing pretty great again.
Liam Garcia
probably a great lakes city with a lot of crime like thunder bay or hamilton
Colton Gray
Probably. I heard Cleveland is close and than there are the countless bumfuck nowheres spread around the country.
Caleb Sullivan
faveLA is worse than Detroit
Nolan Butler
St. Louis is by far the worst I think. It has a higher murder rate than some narco controlled cities in LatAm
Luke Peterson
All Irish towns pretty much look the same. It's the Detroit of Ireland because of its high black population, some of which have started to form gangs and cause trouble
Carson Foster
Yeah, St. Louis is worse.
>t. Kansas City user
Wyatt Butler
A St. Louis user said that at multiple points in his life he has driven past taped off crime scenes where people most likely were murdered
Isaiah Hughes
>St. Louis is by far the worst I think
As far as murders, yes.
Detroit is slowly coming back, here's that once abandoned house that been shown hundreds of times here.
Detroit needs workers but has a bad reputation and can't get people to move there
Connor Wright
Who in his right mind would move to places like Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo and such if you can move to nicer places in the US with comparable or better economic opportunity?
Isaiah Diaz
Cleveland idk about the crime rate, but it's still an industrial dump. The Cuyahoga River was once so polluted that it caught fire. Also, their baseball team has the most Jow Forums mascot, Chief Wahoo
Connor Powell
Not all business left detroit, I know that most American Auto HQs are located there
Juan Parker
I know that but regardless people with valuable skills are wanted everywhere. Why move to Detroit if you can move to any other place?
Isaiah Sanchez
I go to Detroit a few times a year, never had any problems.
It's not hard to avoid the bad parts, almost every big city in the world has a bad part.
Austin Moore
It's not really much worse than any big city, I've had people try to rob me in Amsterdam, never in Detroit.
Aiden Cox
pernik
Brayden Diaz
I'm just saying that places with a bad reputation don't attract people for a good reason. Over here hospitals in shithole areas have to close down since doctors aren't interested in living there as they can get a job in a nice town instead. Same applies to all the accountants, engineers and such these car companies want.
As for getting robbed in Amsterdam: it has always been one of the most crime ridden places in Europe. Even today it still is.
Carson Thomas
>Pernik
Lol, that's what gingerbread is called here. it's also slang for crack.
Jacob Martin
Great Yarmouth.
Angel Kelly
>piernik
Owen Miller
The Detroit area has some of the best hospitals in the region, because of Uni of MI
Detroits reputation is one of it's biggest problems right now.
Have you ever considered it's not as bad as it's Jow Forums reputation?
I work for rich people, some live in Detroit, I maintain their summer homes, like mega rich, private jet type rich, have Porsches they drive 2 months a year.
Also all the rich people from the 3 sports teams, I work for a hockey player that lives there, he's a millionaire
David Thomas
Helsinki
Jordan Campbell
are they both former industrial towns?
Leo Jones
Helsinki had industry but the photo is from a shopping mall
Asher Cruz
Ostrava looks pretty good and it's look like town rulers know how to manage postindustrial terrains, it definitely is better than Łódź. But I'm silesian myself and I can be biased on that topic.
Colton Evans
Charleroi
Benjamin Price
I've never actually been to Ostrava.
James Harris
>idk about the crime rate
It's high because the city is over 60% black
>industrial dump
Maybe 50 years ago. Now there's no industry and no jobs
Landon Gray
Ελευσίνα
Elefsina
Carter Reed
Because Łódź's economy was based on textile industry that died in the 1990s along with collapse of communism and opening East Asian markets.
Isaiah Howard
Tolyatti
Logan Morris
Detroit is kind of coming back now with gentrification as are many other American cities that were lost over the last few decades.
Grayson Ramirez
The saddest thing about Łódź is that it has great potential as it has a big 19th century district full of beautiful European architecture, just it's unbelievably neglected.
Many streets would look like straight from Budapest if they were renovated
Liam Rivera
looks pretty shrekt to me
Lucas Morgan
Malmö
Lucas Evans
Pretty much all of the city center looks like that
it could be a gem but now it looks terrible due to lack of money
Wyatt Campbell
I really wish some chinese investors came here and bought everything
Samuel Smith
Łódź was one of the biggest and richest cities of the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century.
Eli Miller
it was known for its capitalist palaces and factories
Landon Cook
now it's just a bunch of ruins
Nolan Kelly
Hypovisible dysconstructions
I love Leheli
Ryder Allen
That's where Laibach are from, isn't it?
Carter Smith
>not Frankfurt
wew
Nathan Moore
liverpool if you mean general post industrial decline and lots of abadoned places
Somewhere like croydon if you mean lots of blacks
Dominic Butler
naples
Brandon Sullivan
>posting pictures from half a decade ago.
Cooper Thompson
>calling 5 years "half a decade" to make it sound like it was long time ago
Jason Cooper
Detroit is inexpensive to live in and start a business. The climate is nice (if you like Midwestern climates) and its got a major international airport with other stuff.
Its like a smaller, shittier version of Chicago. Chicago has its own problems though.
Michael Robinson
Wallonia
Daniel Brooks
I agree, Charleroi looks really horrible, definitely the poorest and the ugliest city in western continental Europe
Matthew Brown
Are there any places in Łódź to avoid? I'm sort of visiting there soon
Chase Fisher
>Are there any places in Łódź to avoid?
Pretty much everything except for the main street (Piotrkowska). Stick to this street and don't try to explore the surroundings.
Angel Kelly
It's not 90s anymore
It's safe pretty much everywhere, although there's not much to do outside of Manufaktura and the Piotrkowska Street, that's where the social life is.
But you don't really have to avoid any place, I used to walk through half of the city in the middle of the night and nothing ever happend to me.
William Rogers
Sad. Wouldnt have happened under communism.
Andrew Edwards
Why are wh*tes so obsessed with Detroit?
Ryan Gray
But Eindhoven is our literal Detroit
My little cousin learned that in his geography book
Evan Scott
Probably the shitty part of Madrid or Sevilla
We never had a city where the industry died that hard like detroit