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b_b · 4277 days ago · link · · parent · post: As Detroit approaches a new turn in its difficult journey, many people are asking: how did we get to this point?
I've not read it, but it's one of those than I've been planning to get around to for years. Anyway, I think Detroit's decline may be temporary. It's a minority opinion, but its grounded in logic. There is no place on Earth that has more fresh water than Michigan. When shitholes like Phoenix start to run dry, those refugees, ironically refugees from the cold to begin with, will need some place to go. Here, we have water and more infrastructure capacity than we know what to do with. It may take decades to rebuild, but I think that eventually people will have no choice but to move North again.