Random musings
No matter how soft Kleenex says those damn tissues are, they're not soft enough to keep your nose from getting chapped during a severe cold.
I have come to realize that I have a lot of Southern culture that I don't actually acknowledge. For example, amongst my family and many others, it is considered rude to stay in a hotel when visiting. You must stay with relatives. It is expected. Whether you want to, whether they want you to, you hunker down on their couch, floor or guest bedroom. It is the rule. I do not know if this is a common cultural trait, but I know it's deep in my family and many others, far more common than that "justice" streak thingy.
Just when your nails start to really get long and pretty, they'll start to break off one by one.
The population of Detroit in 1990 was approximately 1,027,974 people. In 2000, it was 951,270. That's a loss of 76,704 people. Another 51,072 people left/died by 2004. As of 2004, Detroit was the 11th largest city in the U.S., and the only American city that was bigger than Detroit and also losing rather than gaining people was Philadelphia, the fifth.
It took ten years for 76,704 people to leave. However, in the next four years, two-thirds of that amount left. So, at this rate, Detroit should be completely empty within a couple decades. See, even if the rate people flee the city doesn't increase from 2004-- that is to say, 51,072 people leave/die every four years-- then 127,680 people will have left between 2000 and 2010. 255,360 will have left between 2000 and 2020. By 2070, Detroit would have a population of 951,270 - 7(127,680). That's 57,510. By the year 2074, Detroit would have a population of 6,438. So the city would be completely empty seven months later, hypothetically, if my math is on track here.
At some point, one would hope that the population would get small enough that there wouldn't be enough criminals to keep scaring people away and tourists would actually come here if they built an amusement park, and therefore the city could "turn around." One would also hope that at some point the rate at which people leave the city stops increasing, and that the population levels out and perhaps start to rebuild. One would also hope that the apocalypse the conspiracy nuts have been promising will happen long before the year 2075. Surely we'll at least run out of oil or clean water or something by then.
I have come to realize that I have a lot of Southern culture that I don't actually acknowledge. For example, amongst my family and many others, it is considered rude to stay in a hotel when visiting. You must stay with relatives. It is expected. Whether you want to, whether they want you to, you hunker down on their couch, floor or guest bedroom. It is the rule. I do not know if this is a common cultural trait, but I know it's deep in my family and many others, far more common than that "justice" streak thingy.
Just when your nails start to really get long and pretty, they'll start to break off one by one.
The population of Detroit in 1990 was approximately 1,027,974 people. In 2000, it was 951,270. That's a loss of 76,704 people. Another 51,072 people left/died by 2004. As of 2004, Detroit was the 11th largest city in the U.S., and the only American city that was bigger than Detroit and also losing rather than gaining people was Philadelphia, the fifth.
It took ten years for 76,704 people to leave. However, in the next four years, two-thirds of that amount left. So, at this rate, Detroit should be completely empty within a couple decades. See, even if the rate people flee the city doesn't increase from 2004-- that is to say, 51,072 people leave/die every four years-- then 127,680 people will have left between 2000 and 2010. 255,360 will have left between 2000 and 2020. By 2070, Detroit would have a population of 951,270 - 7(127,680). That's 57,510. By the year 2074, Detroit would have a population of 6,438. So the city would be completely empty seven months later, hypothetically, if my math is on track here.
At some point, one would hope that the population would get small enough that there wouldn't be enough criminals to keep scaring people away and tourists would actually come here if they built an amusement park, and therefore the city could "turn around." One would also hope that at some point the rate at which people leave the city stops increasing, and that the population levels out and perhaps start to rebuild. One would also hope that the apocalypse the conspiracy nuts have been promising will happen long before the year 2075. Surely we'll at least run out of oil or clean water or something by then.