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    #NotAllYzermanHamilton Nolan
    2/25/16 3:23pm

    Goddammit it’s always a picture of Detroit used in these articles. I swear things are starting to get much better here.

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      EvanrudeJohnson#NotAllYzerman
      2/25/16 3:27pm

      Ok, I was thinking to myself that I drove by a place in Detroit that looked just like that building.

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      godspeed aquaboy#NotAllYzerman
      2/25/16 3:28pm

      Had to double check the phone number to make sure it wasn’t St. Louis. Otherwise, can’t tell the difference.

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    burnerburneradinfiburnerHamilton Nolan
    2/25/16 3:26pm

    A sign of the times - lumber, mining, agriculture - a lot fewer jobs there, so the population is going to start urbanizing more.

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      CantWaitForTheOscarsburnerburneradinfiburner
      2/25/16 3:33pm

      It’s interesting because everyone always said that in the future everyone will work from home so people can live wherever they want and yet I’ve only met two people my entire life who actually moved out of an urban area to work from home in a rural community or a resort/beach community. Everyone I know who works from home works in an apartment because they’re hip and want to be around young people.

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      burnerburneradinfiburnerCantWaitForTheOscars
      2/25/16 3:56pm

      I think one problem is that very few telecommuters are able to live far from work - most have to go into the office periodically, and the sorts of jobs that allow for telecommuting are typically more urban based.

      However, many jobs that could be done at home simply aren’t. I live somewhere with horrific traffic that people are always complaining about, but one solution I don’t hear about is telecommuting (even though people are happier and more productive when they do it).

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    Quasar FunkHamilton Nolan
    2/25/16 3:24pm

    Sweet so once they all move to the other ZIP codes everyone will be equal you guys.

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      ARP2Quasar Funk
      2/25/16 3:29pm

      Yeah, I don’t fully understand the implication. I get that poor areas are getting abandoned (e.g. small rustbelt towns), but moving to a more wealthy zip code, doesn’t necessarily mean they’re doing better, they’re just getting propped up by more wealthy residents.

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      Quasar FunkARP2
      2/25/16 3:33pm

      I think it just becomes like the Star Bellied Sneetches, for lack of a better analogy because I have kids and I’m a dolt.

      But anyways, rural/suburban areas and urban areas will just keep trading places as far as which ones house the rich and which ones house the poor. Currently, the rich are abandoning the poor suburbs, to which they fled in the 80's, for the cities, from which the poor are fleeing.

      We’ll all just keep trading places.

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    Sid and FinancyHamilton Nolan
    2/25/16 3:23pm

    “Why don’t they just get their mail delivered to their summer homes, then?” — Mitt Romney

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      Quasar FunkSid and Financy
      2/25/16 3:30pm
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      ThomasinaJoadQuasar Funk
      2/25/16 5:05pm

      Backpfeifengeshicht posterboy

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    SydergaawdHamilton Nolan
    2/25/16 3:22pm

    These “distressed” areas of the country are concentrated in the South, in the faded Rust Belt areas

    All that Jesusing really did wonders didn’t it.

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      smokeybaileySydergaawd
      2/25/16 3:27pm

      I noticed that. The people who most need the programs are most likely to vote for those who will kill them.

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      Beet ArthurSydergaawd
      2/25/16 3:38pm

      It makes you wonder if we all stop caring that they vote against their needs, welcome Walmart in to destroy their towns, and pollute their land - while the rest of us understand the ramifications of all that, why we don’t just let them burn themselves out.

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    lJN9yQQDBepFiHamilton Nolan
    2/25/16 3:24pm

    Boy. Hammy is working hard today to start his war so he can take other people’s stuff.

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      frankwalsinghalmlJN9yQQDBepFi
      2/25/16 3:34pm

      Really? His heart doesn’t seem to be in it. It takes a certain personality to maintain outrage over years, decades. Breslin had it. So did Studs Terkel. But they wrote about actual people, not studies or reports. The trick is to look the victims in the eye.

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    WhatthefoxsaysHamilton Nolan
    2/25/16 3:39pm

    I live in Manhattan because of my job. But there is a lot I don’t like about the place and if these trends continue, I absolutely would love to take my savings and buy an abandoned Rustbelt town, rename it DoggieTown, and invite all of this country’s dogs to move in.

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      KumichoHamilton Nolan
      2/25/16 3:29pm

      And the map looks about like anyone would have imagined....

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        dogrivergrad-68Kumicho
        2/25/16 5:36pm

        the current/former residents of each state will not be surprised at each little blob (ex the dark green areas in ND are where the oilfields are located).

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        BirdDroppingsKumicho
        2/25/16 7:19pm

        Damn, that red on the rez in AZ. I used to live right outside the Navajo rez, and those people are tough as shit. Some homes there don’t have electricity and they have to tank in their water.

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      RealAmurricanHamilton Nolan
      2/25/16 3:41pm

      This map is an outright vindication of Republican policies! Look at all those coastal elites, with their high taxes and their... wait, the red is bad? Oh... Fuck...

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        ThenSAHamilton Nolan
        2/25/16 3:30pm

        There is only one solution to this problem:

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