There are selling houses for 50.00. I bet someone with a good written proposal good get ownership of a couple of city blocks
and tear down the remaining houses for the materials to start building a fort or even a Fortress. You couldn't get swampland or desert property in the middle of nowhere cheaper! There are even local barbarian tribes like Vandels, Cripians etc for that realistic on the frontiers of the Empire feel. Separate out parcels could house watchtowers! Some locals would flock to sign up as auxiliary! After a few punitive forays and crucifixions the area would be quickly pacified.
Sad to think of the people who are on city retirement, or work for the city, and find that the money is all gone. The poor, as usual, take the biggest share of the failure. What to do if you're an unemployed, or a welfare recipient, and the city treasury is empty? Real trouble is coming, and not far down the road. This is really nothing to make light of. A few hundred thousand people in Michigan have had their hope snuffed out.
There will be more to come, as I've said for quite some time. It's no joking matter. ad:
ad: On whose bankroll, Evan? When a city loses over 50% of its population in 40 years, the effect is dire. Infrastructure still needs repair, but the tax base decreases. I'm in Texas, where the economy is doing pretty well, but in Michigan, the situation is very scary. Detroit was one of the largest cities in Michigan.
I repeat, friends, this is not a laughing matter. This is a harbinger of urban decline tied to top heavy government outlay that is not sustainable. Add in that the auto industry completely deserted the area, and you can't escape the conclusion that continual outsourcing has led to a situation that simply can not go on. As this malaise spreads to other cities and states (btw, California, a state with 38,000,000 is near bankruptcy) the financial ruin of the US can not be far down the road.
This is how it must have been, albeit for some different reasons.in Western Rome around AD 420 or so. And those fifty dollar houses? The homeowners are the big losers. I guarantee that they paid hundreds or thousands a month for years on those buildings they used to live in, and paid a whole lot more than they can sell them for now. Their lives are ruined: they have to start over somewhere else. No surprise that they're on the government dole.
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You know, as a way to create permenant jobs, why don't we open a Roman living history Roman museum. Make it like the Jamestown, Yorktown, plymouth museums in the US. Locals could be full-time legionnaires (numidians were in the legions), we could have a great US government sponsored museum, and some of us could quit our day jobs and join the legions. :woot:
Given the sinking property value, we could potentially build a full-sized roman castra with an ampatheatre.
Don't worry about funding. The US government is happy to dump money on things that (in the grand, national, scheme of things) are pointless.
Tyler
Undergrad student majoring in Social Studies Education with a specialty in world history.
"conare levissimus videri, hostes enimfortasse instrumentis indigeant"
(Try to look unimportant-the enemy might be low on ammunition).
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