I'm a libertarian. It's a well accepted political view and one of its basic premises is that most people are motivated by their pocket books. There's even people like Ron Paul who've been elected on a libertarian platform. And you can see this theory in action when Detroit's population continues declining every year.
I dont care about your political views. Ventura was a Libertarian Governer and we saw how that turned out. His approval rating dipped the whole time in office. What has Ron Paul accomplished that Ross Perot didn't? Paul was a representative from Texas who always voted in favor of big oil and paid $200,000 for Michael Landeau's coat from highway to heaven to be burried in. The guy or his son are not the answer...
Windsor is a border city, so it would exist no matter what. I'm a boater in my spare time, so why would I be dependent on downtown?? I'd be happy wherever there's water and Canada is filled with waterways and boating towns. My income is in no way dependent upon Detroit. I came down here for the cheap real estate in Windsor compared to the rest of Ontario.
Hey bud why do you think your real estate was cheap? Could it be how close you are to Detroit? Isn't that kind of looking a gift horse in the mouth or were you really that uneducated upon arrival? Do you really think Windsor would be what it is without Detroit?
And if I flee Detroit at night to a safer city across the river it's because the city sucks due to rampant crime.
So you do spend time in the city and then go on your rants about how no-one needs Detroit. YOUR A JOKE..
Are you retarded or just blind? What's pathetic is someone who denies what's around them. Look around you. You just have to drive down several streets in Detroit to understand the ills. Boarded up and burnt out houses. Missing windows. Graffiti everywhere. For rent signs everywhere. Garbage everywhere. Empty warehouses. Rampant crime. Scrappers ripping apart buildings for scrap metal. There's tonnes of youtube videos on Detroit you can google to prove my point if you're one of the users from Chicago that never set foot in the city. Do you want me to cut and paste links? OK Here's some:
Here's one from driving down the streets of Detroit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHgqPvWzKDc
Here's another youtube from Fox 2 where boarded up homes outnumber the people in residential neighborhoods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCT_g_n61gY
Nice videos, you upload those to youtube? You seem pathetic enough to spend time dogging the city any chance you get. Is this a major goal in your life?
Obviously it sounds like you don't have money and it's bothering you and you're taking being broke personal. Boo hoo. Who cares what you think of Windsor?! I have my issues with it too, but Detroit is ten times worse.
I'm broke? Sorry I didn't have to move to somewhere just in search of "cheap real-estate", I have a family to worry about not some boating "hobby". I chose a beautiful neighborhood with an awesome city park less than a block away..Plus I didn't have to worry about massive market fluctuation in the past or present. My house has gained value for years. Yours? No smoke and mirrors in my neighborhood. I dont live in Detroit, or Michigan for that matter so spare me the Detroit neighborhood diatribe..
How am I a tool if I care about making money instead of collecting welfare and keyboarding fiction about Detroit all day on the Internet? Isn't you collecting welfare being a tool?
You are a true mouth breather. I'm on welfare? This shows your intelligence/maturity level to label me as being on welfare. Think what you want, I dont need to sit and talk about my pocketbook or "hobbies". I'll save that for the loudest guy in the room, you....
Who cares? City income taxes are destroying Detroit, not NBA teams. City income taxes are the "cause" and the Pistons having left the city is the "effect".