Comments on: Ghost Cities of the Future http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17877 Feel Smart Again Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:16:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: tim http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17877/comment-page-1#comment-456147 tim Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:08:22 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17877#comment-456147 Cairo Illinois. Somewhere out there is a post-apocalyptic movie in the works whos producer is searching in vain for the right setting, and totally missing Cairo. Google Cairo Illinois and look at the images. tim Cairo Illinois. Somewhere out there is a post-apocalyptic movie in the works whos producer is searching in vain for the right setting, and totally missing Cairo.

Google Cairo Illinois and look at the images.

tim

]]> By: Bob http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17877/comment-page-1#comment-456143 Bob Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:23:36 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17877#comment-456143 Eve - St. Louis gets a similarly bad rap due to an almost-identical statistical practice of basing the overall crime rate on that which happens in the city limits, and completely ignoring any of the 90 some-odd municipalities in St. Louis County that make up the metro area. Not to mention the communities on the Illinois side... Although I'm not sure they'd help the cause at all. :) Eve – St. Louis gets a similarly bad rap due to an almost-identical statistical practice of basing the overall crime rate on that which happens in the city limits, and completely ignoring any of the 90 some-odd municipalities in St. Louis County that make up the metro area. Not to mention the communities on the Illinois side… Although I’m not sure they’d help the cause at all. :)

]]> By: Eve http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17877/comment-page-1#comment-92620 Eve Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:19:49 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17877#comment-92620 "Detroit, as I've often blogged" Um, you mean that one post where you ripped off detroitblog.org and managed to use only the parts that made it seem like the city has turned completely into a jungle? If you'd ever actually been to the D, you might realize that those alarmist population statistics are often carefully selected to exclude anything outside city limits--even the inner ring suburbs on the north side of 8 Mile Rd. According to the US Census Bureau, the urban Detroit metro area had a population of 3.9 million in 2007, with another 1.5 million in the rest of the Southeast MI area (to which many former Detroiters have moved). While I readily admit there are many abandoned buildings, far too much poverty and crime, and much blight in Detroit, the local entrepreneurship, the amazing art and music scenes, and the dedication of native Detroiters reassure me that the city will never be a ghost town. “Detroit, as I’ve often blogged”

Um, you mean that one post where you ripped off detroitblog.org and managed to use only the parts that made it seem like the city has turned completely into a jungle? If you’d ever actually been to the D, you might realize that those alarmist population statistics are often carefully selected to exclude anything outside city limits–even the inner ring suburbs on the north side of 8 Mile Rd. According to the US Census Bureau, the urban Detroit metro area had a population of 3.9 million in 2007, with another 1.5 million in the rest of the Southeast MI area (to which many former Detroiters have moved). While I readily admit there are many abandoned buildings, far too much poverty and crime, and much blight in Detroit, the local entrepreneurship, the amazing art and music scenes, and the dedication of native Detroiters reassure me that the city will never be a ghost town.

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