Philadelphia vs. DE-troit

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Stu Bykofsky: If you think things are bad here, take a look at Detroit
June 27, 2011

DETROIT - Unlike this city, Philadelphia's population is rising.

Unlike Philadelphia, Detroit's business community is as galvanized and aggressively optimistic as a Disney theme park.

Over the weekend, members of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists were bombarded by some biggies from the past, the Big Three automakers, and the future, Quicken Loans, which just brought 1,600 high-tech jobs to downtown - and will add an equal number in the months ahead, jobs dragged from the suburbs because its young staff wanted to be where the action is.

The action is still modest, but the downtown bowl has new buildings, refurbished hotels, casinos and a Hard Rock Cafe. But drive just one mile east and there are block-long gaps where buildings once stood, where neighborhoods died. The city is toying with the idea of growing farms within the city limits.

Ideas like that are far more revolutionary, made necessary by necessity, than Philadelphia's bike lanes. Ideas like that are born of a desperation that has not yet gripped Philadelphia. Maybe it should.

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[Tucker]

Well Detroit has a combined IQ of 67. They're not qualified to hold any position other than a Government job. And only then because 5 people stand around while one works. The less they do, the less chance of having to redo it.

Detroit is dead.

[Eupher]

Oh, there's plenty of life in Detroit.

Amoebae, fungi, spores and molds of all types.

Bacteria, one-celled organisms.

Stray dogs and cats, even some homeless. Maybe a LOT of homeless. And let's not forget the rats.

There's life in Detroit, but it's still a shit-stinking cesspool of catastrophic proportions.