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'DETROIT CITY IS THE PLACE TO BE'  by Mark Binelli.  140 square miles of this city are being returned to the animals/wilderness, (The Wolves of Chernobyl), while people are urban homesteading on 40 square miles of abandoned buildings (mostly houses), in a gun carrying, no law and order, wild west atmosphere where a small minority survive by looting scrap metal or by buying the buildings and then burning them down for the insurance, an 'Escape from New York'....the movie type of environment that the white middle class fled from that they couldn't in the movie. 

The social experiment that failed.  A long time ago all the recently released felons from prisons all over the country were encouraged to move to Detroit and given jobs in the auto industry hoping to rehabilitate them from a life of crime.  The industry relocated all over the country, mostly to the south, leaving behind two or three generations of hard core criminals that rule the area now.  There are no walls to keep them in and the weather and no market for their drugs, (except to each other), is encouraging them to slowly spread out to wherever law enforcement has failed or turned a blind eye or greedy pocketbook to the situation.