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Agreed

Good point about being poor, but clean, Kevin! I'm from Windsor, Ont. and just across the Detroit River is another GHETTO called Detoilet, MI.

@@BRAYXOTIC They got what they voted for

It’s apocalyptic. It’s not worth moving back. There are other places in the south that are cheaper and nice places to live

It’s not just you. It is not you at all. The city has been in a decades-long slide, but the pace of of the decline has increased dramatically in the past 10 years, give or take. It’s practically unrecognizable to those of us who still live here. It would most likely be shocking to anyone who returned.

What’s your opinion? I like hearing peoples takes on these topics

@@BRAYXOTIC Well let me say this when I was a boy I first went to Lake Elementary School then Lester, I grew up on Ellis Isle Ave. The worst thing I saw in West Jackon then was retired old dudes pruning their rose bushes. My grandfather managed the Village Apartments so we lived there for a time. At the time it was the only low income housing on the street. You may have had a few hotspots like Southdown arms. But when I was little the government too a big interest in Jackson becoming integrated. What Jackson got was CDGM, Food Stamps (Snap) and Section 8. Keep in mind in 1960 the White population is still around 64 percent. Now the black population is not just due to white flight when blacks living in Chicago, St. Louis etc. heard there were government jobs, schools with free food for their kids, low income housing and they could get food stamps they flooded the city because we were not getting the best and brightest we were getting other cities poor folks, just like what happened to cities after Katrina hit, they got all of New Orleans poorest and least educated. So we gotta house all these new unskilled laborors more section 8 housing. Jackson was not the kind of city that could support that you go to the city today the people with money are lawyers who work downtown, bankers etc. Everyone else is in construction etc. Problem is alot of new people coming in didnt want to do construction and poor black families were not creating lawyers, more welfare and a saturated labor market, DRUGS by 1980 its 30 percent white and drugs are on the street crack was a big one especially then but it still had not taken over the city yet, but by 1990 it had taken most of the South all of West Jackson and Downtown but it was still salvageable. But they chose to keep expanding the welfare state incorporate nearby areas to increase the tax base which just made those white people leave deeper into the country which dried up those new funds real fast, by 2000 South Jackson was gone and the once lively Metro mall was deserted. By 2010 when I left most of Terry road was covered in Stray Pitbulls rats were just walking around in front of gas stations and homes were being condemned but even then the McDonalds was still open not most of its boarded up, even the Waffle houses left. It was bad city management decisions being made by well meaning people in Washington that simply overwhelmed what was never a large city to begin with, with promises of a new start for underprivileged blacks and its probably something that should have been handled by the dept of rural development not just pumping people into a city, let me ask you what has that done for the State of New York.

Shame, sounds like it was a charming southern city back in the day. I agree with a lot of what you said. It has a lot to do with poverty and drugs

I’ll note it

Agreed

Lol yeah I definitely wanna go back at night to a different area

Not sure, it’s 5 minutes outside downtown though

So would I, that’s what makes it fun lol

Think part Fallujah, part Gaza City.

Cool. You got any stories or comments you wanna share?

5 minutes south of downtown

Some area on the west side of town -- just west of the University -- are very similar.

@@jazzmanchgoI’ll keep in mind.. definitely want to cover more of the city at some point

Any interesting stories

@BRAYXOTIC A guy got his head choppoed off, junk in hand, and left on his folks porch to find.

@Swagthizzle damn. Sounds like Jackson

@BRAYXOTIC Yeah crazy, it's not Florida and I think someone paid to have that done and left the state.