GIF PHOTOS : Three houses showing the decay of Detroit over 8 years

[Ichingcarpenter]

Holy Crap and those were pretty nice homes at first.
I'm not sure who did this but got it off Redditt

[nykym]

1. So

where are the houses????????????????????????????????

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Shows fine on my browser

even did a preview to make sure it showed.

Maybe wait for the gif to load?

[ChazII]

3. Sad to see the decline

of the homes.

[rurallib]

4. Detroit may be the most egregious example but this blight is all over

Even my beloved small town Iowa, where what were once well kept single family homes are falling to neglect. The cost of maintenance is just too high for a retired person whose pension was stolen by some corporate raider, or for some young family scraping by Walmart wages.

Where once thriving local businesses are shuttered in a once bustling downtown while Walmart sits at the edge of town not paying taxes to the small town they have ruined. Local manufacturers and dairies and gas and service stations have been run out of business by national competitors.

So an aging population watches as their life dream falls apart along with their houses, while the rich and well off move to McMansions on the edge of town or move to the suburbs of of bigger cities.

It is so so sad.

[closeupready]

9. And yet, these same people largely go vote Republican.

So you know, it's sad, but you get the government you deserve, and if you vote GOP, you're gonna get screwed.

[NM_Birder]

12. Detroit has had a Democrat mayor since 1970.

[closeupready]

13. Iowa, I was referring to - rurallib's referenced area.

[NM_Birder]

14. oh, then Detroit will be fine.

They haven't fallen for the GOP bullshit.

[MisterP]

11. the blight also moves from the outside in: overleveraged new developments are the first to go

(typically the hunchbacked horrors that lack lawns)

[malaise]

5. Fascinating in a very

sad way

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. 7 years actually but it looks more like 20 or 30

the trees tell me that.

[Dawgs]

7. Interesting, but the one set of nice homes shows fire damage, IMO.

The others looked like decay.

[mike_c]

8. nothing stays the same or persists forever....

The world is filled with former human habitations, now abandoned or nearly so. Most probably have similar stories of neglect, or disasters of various sorts before abandonment.

[mylye2222]

10. Detroit is now a post Apocalyptic city....

Painfull....