Gaedel
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Sun Dec-12-10 05:43 AM
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Includes such posh suburbs as the various Grosse Pointes and the Bloomfield Hills area. Still plenty of money there.
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| -Which cities have the most millionaires? Detroit = #8, up 12% in 2010. |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-12-10 03:30 AM |
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Dishonesty alert from this source |
Taitertots |
Dec-12-10 05:33 AM |
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Detroit Metro Area |
Gaedel |
Dec-12-10 05:43 AM |
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who cares? it's an amazing amount of wealth concentrated in the hands of less than |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-12-10 05:50 AM |
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Do you care that your sources are telling blatant lies? |
Taitertots |
Dec-12-10 05:56 AM |
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you'd better read the article again. they clearly state: metro |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-12-10 06:01 AM |
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You better read the article again. They are obviously conflating Metro areas and cities |
Taitertots |
Dec-12-10 06:16 AM |
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'The New York metropolitan area has...' |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-12-10 06:25 AM |
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You must not be from around here |
Taitertots |
Dec-12-10 06:31 AM |
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1/3 of the city is going to lose services. You don't know how many people that will be. |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-12-10 06:44 AM |
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In ten years Birmingham has lost 12,000 people |
Taitertots |
Dec-12-10 07:31 AM |
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They lost 1/3 of their population in the same period Detroit did. In a larger area. |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-12-10 02:24 PM |
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They lost less than one quarter the number of people that Detroit did |
Taitertots |
Dec-13-10 12:52 AM |
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relative percent is anything but meaningless, because the supposed point is that |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-13-10 12:56 AM |
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Economies of Scale |
Taitertots |
Dec-13-10 12:58 AM |
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maybe you'd better check out the definition of "economy of scale". |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-13-10 01:24 AM |
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Diseconomies of scale, I forgot to put "dis" at the beginning n/t |
Taitertots |
Dec-13-10 01:41 AM |
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you'd better look that up too. you seem not to understand the concept at all. |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-13-10 01:47 AM |
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I know exactly what it means and it absolutely applies to the situation |
Taitertots |
Dec-13-10 01:50 AM |
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a quick check shows you do not. economies or diseconomies of scale have nothing to |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-13-10 01:55 AM |
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You are wrong |
Taitertots |
Dec-13-10 02:26 AM |
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because you say so? lol. |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-13-10 02:43 AM |
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The marginal cost of water, sewer, and electrical is not only a function of area |
Taitertots |
Dec-13-10 03:21 AM |
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the number of the cost for maintenance of a given amount of already-existing line is the same no |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-13-10 03:41 AM |
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They require maintenance if no one uses them, you are correct |
Taitertots |
Dec-13-10 05:03 AM |
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no, the problem is the deficit. if the houses are blighted & abandoned, they can tear them down. |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-13-10 06:41 AM |
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All of these include metro areas, even NYC. Most of the wealth in NYC is actually |
Exilednight |
Dec-12-10 06:37 AM |
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Exactly, they are conflating cities with urban areas |
Taitertots |
Dec-12-10 06:42 AM |
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right, no millionaires in nyc, they're all in westchester county. |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-12-10 06:49 AM |
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There are pleny of millionaires in NYC, but many also reside in Westchester County ................. |
Exilednight |
Dec-12-10 09:22 AM |
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Detroit has more millionaires than that |
Lions_fan |
Dec-12-10 05:34 AM |
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If we assume even distribution of wealth in the metro area... |
Taitertots |
Dec-12-10 05:59 AM |
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Fine. Say there are 20,000 millionaires who own property in the city. |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-12-10 06:14 AM |
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If rich people wanted it they could have bought it for pennies on the dollar |
Taitertots |
Dec-12-10 06:25 AM |
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you think it's "abandoned". This looks "abandoned," doesn't it? |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-12-10 06:30 AM |
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There are thousands of houses that won't sell for $500 |
Taitertots |
Dec-12-10 08:36 AM |
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two decades ago |
salin |
Dec-12-10 09:06 AM |
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It's produced by capital strike by the same class of people who buy up property & let it sit & rot |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-12-10 02:21 PM |
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Very interesting material - lots to read and ponder. |
salin |
Dec-12-10 05:30 PM |
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One of the things Detroiters should read & ponder: The same process in NYC |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-12-10 07:02 PM |
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same deal in st louis, & irrelevant to the point made, |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-12-10 02:15 PM |
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It is not the same thing in St. Louis at all |
Taitertots |
Dec-13-10 12:55 AM |
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detroit's population peaked at 1.85 million in 1950. It's lost slightly under 1 million |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-13-10 01:18 AM |
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Find a city that is actually like Detroit instead of meaningless obfuscations |
Taitertots |
Dec-13-10 01:49 AM |
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lol. since there's no city that's like detroit in every detail, you can continue to sing that tune. |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-13-10 02:03 AM |
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You know that no cities are comparable, why keep trotting out cities that you know are not? |
Taitertots |
Dec-13-10 02:40 AM |
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I've cited extensive data about cities that are comparable. You demand they be EXACTLY comparable. |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-13-10 02:48 AM |
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You have cherry picked cities that are not like Detroit |
Taitertots |
Dec-13-10 03:09 AM |
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no, the market value for a home in a depopulated area is not the same as the |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-13-10 04:46 AM |
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There are thousands of similar properties in St Louis. |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-12-10 02:38 PM |
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k |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-12-10 07:43 PM |
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drug dealers |
blueamy66 |
Dec-12-10 06:19 AM |
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You're saying that only drug dealers will have their water cut off? |
Hannah Bell |
Dec-12-10 06:33 AM |
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You'd think with all the millionaires in Houston |
NoPasaran |
Dec-12-10 08:39 AM |
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k&r |
Starry Messenger |
Dec-12-10 09:15 AM |
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I am surprised not to see Miami on the list |
blueoutkast |
Dec-12-10 09:23 AM |
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