As someone that's currently living in a major city that's booming with so much traffic, high rent and stress I wouldn't mind staying in this quiet dead place for a couple of days.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, a couple of days? You sound like me. Get a big dose of quiet before the boredom sets in. I bet back in the day these houses were beautiful. It seems that everything has an expiration date.😉
St. Louis was once a thriving city of nearly 800,000. Now less than 300,000 and going down. The life has been utterly sucked out of the city, and the crime problem in the city is being exported across the Mississippi River to the Alton/East Alton/Wood River areas. The life has also been sucked out of those cities, as well. Saw that six years ago when visiting.
They are beautiful structures. Worth millions each in New York City. Must have been a wonderful neighborhood 80 years ago then what happened. Only in America.
It seems that I never cease to be amazed! America stands for freedom and I love that it does - it's truly noble. What bothers me sometimes is that, with all that freedom swirling around, equality doesn't dare raise its ugly head.
St. Louis was once the 4th largest city (back in the 19th century), and 2nd most important city for auto manufacturing. Key events & periods that changed everything: * The Great Migration *Nixon's Trip to China...and the Trade Agreements that eventually came out of it. * The Fair Housing Act of 68. * Brown v. Board and subsequent disegregation. All fueled White flight, especially in the 50's, 60's and 70's. At the same time...the growth of those good paying industrial jobs began to slow and eventually go away. Over time...the life is snuffed out of these neighborhoods. No investment. I saw a couple of streets where trash, debris and old furniture was just tossed out on the street. I guarantee it has been there for months if not years. These politicians don't even care enough to at least have the debris and trash removed from the streets. The mayor is sitting on tens of millions in extra funds. She could put a cleanup crew together. There are also abandoned homes that are early beyond repair. Follow procedures to take possession of those properties and demolish them. Then zone the areas for the kind of projects needed and then give the land away to those who promise to rebuild and invest in the property (and hold them to it via a written contract). Most of those buildings have been rotting for 5, 10, 20+ years. No politician doing anything. Luckily these neighborhoods are only a sliver of the overall St. Louis Metro area (10-15%) but there is currently a serious crime problem...which really isn't being addeessed. A lot of political failings. Two top politicians (the #1 from the County, and the #2 most powerful from the city) were indicted and convicted on federal corruption charges in separate cases in the last 5 years. The place is a mess. Their fumbling & misguided approach contributed to the loss of the NFL as well. Definitely a depressing place. Fixing it will require all new leadership. The current officeholders aren't capable due to the political culture and their mindset of following the same vision and strategy or having no real strategy at all.
Poor people take care of their property in other parts of the world because they worked for what they have. Only in the US where they're subsidized so heavily do they not care about their surroundings.
@@jakefeatherston1548 yes but you can thank Democrats for creating the system that teaches, subsidizes and reinforces the behavior. thank most of all the teachers unions and schools for feeding the endless cycle.
@@FayTown82 The environment that created those conditions was the mass movement of people with no means to live in that city and other cities enticed by welfare and subsidized housing. As a result people who cared about their surroundings and worked to take care of them were confronted by a losing proposition of watching their neighborhoods degrade and become dangerous. So they left and then the decay expanded. Thus you have Detroit. I'm not speculating. I lived it for the first 13 years of my life. Then my folks found out that I was attacked 3 times by the newcomers - mugged, hit in the head by rocks, hit over the from behind in our church parking lot with a 2x4 - and threatened multiple times - I didn't tell them they found out. Our house went up or sale that summer and my Dad sold the house he had spent 20 years restoring for $13,000 and we moved. So that's the legacy of the philosophy of Saul Alinsky and the do-gooders Democrat party. The destruction of every city in America east of the Rock Mountains. Now it's what the Democrats want to do to the rest of our society. Destroy it from the inside out.
Many of these homes would be wonderful restored with a little TLC. The government should invest in the abandoned homes and get the homeless, the ones with potential to succeed off the streets.
