Message from @Grenade123

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2018-01-10 00:17:00 UTC  

I mean, if there is one thing I dont have but I will relentlessly support, its the right to bear arms.

2018-01-10 00:17:17 UTC  

Also yes, demolishing long abandoned buildings does help with crime a bit.

2018-01-10 00:17:46 UTC  

Or just making the place less of a shithole. People there probably feel abandoned as well.

2018-01-10 00:17:50 UTC  

Turns out criminals don't like doing business in open lots where everyone can see as mucb

2018-01-10 00:18:11 UTC  

Now, if only we could solve the homeless issue...

2018-01-10 00:18:14 UTC  

...oh wait...

2018-01-10 00:18:24 UTC  

*and the poverty*

2018-01-10 00:18:37 UTC  

If only they could solve the local job market

2018-01-10 00:18:53 UTC  

Only giving welfare to people who work is a great start. (not that I like the idea of welfare really)

2018-01-10 00:18:55 UTC  

They have factories there? Or is it used to?

2018-01-10 00:19:12 UTC  

Used to be a big factory area

2018-01-10 00:19:21 UTC  

Then all the facotries left

2018-01-10 00:19:22 UTC  

Last I heard they had car factories there.

2018-01-10 00:19:29 UTC  

most of the large industry left in the 70's

2018-01-10 00:19:36 UTC  

Leaving cause of what? Dem regulations or taxes?

2018-01-10 00:19:39 UTC  

Yeah so they need to make new jobs.

2018-01-10 00:19:48 UTC  

Automation I think

2018-01-10 00:19:55 UTC  

Well, on top of that, those jobs are also becoming more and more automated.

2018-01-10 00:19:58 UTC  

outsourcing

2018-01-10 00:20:01 UTC  

Didn't need the line workers

2018-01-10 00:20:15 UTC  

Could get more cars out of the factories they had

2018-01-10 00:20:30 UTC  

Probably also moved to a cheaper state too

2018-01-10 00:20:38 UTC  

Basically just the market changed

2018-01-10 00:21:01 UTC  

So basically, no jobs in the area

2018-01-10 00:21:11 UTC  

Basically

2018-01-10 00:21:16 UTC  

southern states offer great insentives for automakers, so a lot of them moved there

2018-01-10 00:22:26 UTC  

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.

2018-01-10 00:22:44 UTC  

The people who could afford to move away and wanted to did.

2018-01-10 00:23:02 UTC  

same story for most the midwest

2018-01-10 00:23:04 UTC  

So the only people left we're too poor or too stubborn to leave.

2018-01-10 00:23:11 UTC  

Basically

2018-01-10 00:23:22 UTC  

Story of a lot of factory towns

2018-01-10 00:23:23 UTC  

What the local mayorship is doing aint helping much. Last I heard, they wanted to ban bulletproof glass.

2018-01-10 00:23:42 UTC  

Heck, similar story to what happened to bridgeport here.

2018-01-10 00:23:44 UTC  

hence the name for the region, The Rust Belt

2018-01-10 00:24:19 UTC  

Wonder if Camden NJ had a similar story or.if it was just always a dangerous place.

2018-01-10 00:24:44 UTC  

kinda simular, except less industry

2018-01-10 00:25:03 UTC  

more on the side of rapid urbanization

2018-01-10 00:25:11 UTC  

Same thing is happening to coal towns now

2018-01-10 00:25:29 UTC  

*has been*

2018-01-10 00:25:32 UTC  

Has been happening to mining town for all of history really