Where do you see us going? (Please read before answering) [View All]

On one end of the spectrum, we have places like Detroit. It is, essentially, devastated, but not by natural causes.Home prices, in extreme cases, have fallen to four digit levels. Unemployment is unimaginably high. There is virtually no hope for the return of the regions once great automotive industry as the factories have fled to non-union states like Tennessee, Texas, Alabama, and South Carolina. Automotive support industries have followed. Factories are nothing more than weed ridden grounds, broken glass, blackened brick, rusted steel hulks. Hopelessness has replaced the American Dream. No more is a cool Saturday cruise in hot Detroit Iron down Woodward Avenue the province of carefree youth.

At the other end of the spectrum are cities like Washington, DC, where, while pressed, life is close to normal. Home Depot has customers and high end remodeling contractors continue to write proposals and sign contracts. The malls are still filled and the Apple store is crowded on iPad release day as people line up to not just look, but to buy a product that has yet to demonstrate a purpose. The roads are crowded around the clock with cars with single occupants - the mark of a busy rush hour as wage slaves make their way to Wageland.

As you look into our future, what do you see? More Detroits or more DCs?