Originally Posted by
EastsideAl
Detroit has a very very long ways to go before it could ever consider bidding for something like an Olympics again. Back in the 1950s and 60s Detroit was one of the wealthiest cities in the world, with 3 of the world's largest corporations [[including the world's largest, GM) and an incredibly high per capita income by world standards. Now Detroit is the poorest major city in the U.S., the metropolitan area and the state are lagging the country, those once-giant companies are struggling to survive, our infrastructure is aging and crumbling, and we're way behind many cities in Europe and East Asia.