cuba ruins was fabulous Dave...
i wish the restore any of the old building in the US...
i was wondering why cant...
they that there are more rooms to build new buildings...
Glad you liked my Cuba pictures!
In Cuba, the problem was socialism. Nobody owns their homes; they are given to them by the government, and government officials can arbitrarily take them for their own. So if you had a beautiful house by the water, and you fixed it up, it would be seized and inhabited by an official. Thus the result, no maintenance performed on buildings. The result, as documented in numerous books I read about Cuba, was buildings that would simply collapse at some random period, burying their tenants under them. A heartbreaking story, but you can see the truth of it in my pictures.
Cuba's a great place to visit, but I certainly wouldn't want to live there.
I think the main reason for Detroit's ruins is that Detroit's population shrank and so there was less and less demand for buildings. If demand goes down, you see empty and abandoned buildings, since there is nobody to inhabit them.
I was a little surprised that the beautiful old houses would have been abandoned. If I lived in Detroit I would find one that wasn't too deteriorated and inhabit it myself.
When I first saw the Fabulous Ruins of Detroit, I lived in California, where there is virtually no such thing as an abandoned building - there is such a powerful demand for real estate that the only abandoned buildings I ever saw were those destroyed in Malibu landslides where the law disallowed rebuilding. Such a lot would still be worth $100,000+ since there is a legal path through a maze of government agencies that might eventually allow rebuilding, and any house thus built would be worth $1,000,000 plus. Malibu is not the world's cheapest place to live :-).
People overall have been moving to the sunbelt, and I think they are right to do this. It's a lot more pleasant to live where the weather is nice and life is sweeter. But it does make our older cities look grim.
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