Message from @Grenade123
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Or just making the place less of a shithole. People there probably feel abandoned as well.
Turns out criminals don't like doing business in open lots where everyone can see as mucb
Now, if only we could solve the homeless issue...
...oh wait...
*and the poverty*
If only they could solve the local job market
Only giving welfare to people who work is a great start. (not that I like the idea of welfare really)
They have factories there? Or is it used to?
Used to be a big factory area
Then all the facotries left
Last I heard they had car factories there.
most of the large industry left in the 70's
Leaving cause of what? Dem regulations or taxes?
Yeah so they need to make new jobs.
Automation I think
Well, on top of that, those jobs are also becoming more and more automated.
outsourcing
Didn't need the line workers
Could get more cars out of the factories they had
Probably also moved to a cheaper state too
So basically, no jobs in the area
Basically
southern states offer great insentives for automakers, so a lot of them moved there
Well, it made a vicious circle. Everyone became unemployed in a short amount of time, then before any new business really moved in the crime had risen I think making it not exactly hospitiable to new businesses.
The people who could afford to move away and wanted to did.
same story for most the midwest
So the only people left we're too poor or too stubborn to leave.
Basically
Story of a lot of factory towns
What the local mayorship is doing aint helping much. Last I heard, they wanted to ban bulletproof glass.
Heck, similar story to what happened to bridgeport here.
hence the name for the region, The Rust Belt
Wonder if Camden NJ had a similar story or.if it was just always a dangerous place.
kinda simular, except less industry
more on the side of rapid urbanization
Same thing is happening to coal towns now
*has been*
Has been happening to mining town for all of history really
since the end of the second world war
Mine runs out, everyone peaces