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To follow onto that, another detroiter here. My friend bought a house for about $2k.

Back in the bottom of the detroit real estate market, you could buy pace for a few bucks or a few hundred bucks. Those times are mostly gone, but you could probably find some pretty cheap tracts of land or houses. So you want to but a $1k house? Here's how it works:

1. Buy the house. Hooray! You have a house
2. Live in it. Boo!
3. Sell it? Nope. You need to bring it up to code. It's going to cost you tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars before you can sell it.
4. Ok, you spend a bunch of money fixing this puppy up. It's looking great! Time to hit the market. Except.... this is the neighborhood your house is in: Brightmoore, or highland park. Good luck selling.

So it's not really a money making scheme, unless you're in for the long haul and think real estate is going to be more valuable in 50 years. I certainly do. but Detroit is fucking massive. So good luck picking the spots that will appreciate vs. the spots that won't. You need to diversify and spend a ton of cash for a long time to make that happen.

So most people just live in a cheap house, get by, and try to do good. If you want a pretty representative pic of what a typical detroit street looks like, it's basically like this. Detroit's all houses.

edit: here's one more fun fact: detroit's population in 1950 was 2.0 or 2.5 million. It fell to around 700 thousand as of 2010 (i think). Detroit is empty as shit. Those people didn't go far though, just to the suburbs. So the metro population hasn't changed much, but the city emptied out after the '68 riots, which was the 3rd largest riot in the history of the US (after the Civil War draft riots in NYC, and the '92 LA riots).

Glad you found it interesting! I'm guessing that's a housing project in london? (I don't really know what you call them). People get by on very little all over the world. Hope you're doing well!

Pretty sure those are Guinea pigs, not rats. So there is a meaningful difference there for disease, nutrition, etc. But point taken.

yeah, I've done a lot of work on water meters. Sensus is leading the charge on AMI-capable reporting, which provides much more granular data on water usage, which leads to much better population analysis, dynamic pricing, leak detection, and a host of other things.

Ironically, California is one of the few states (along with washington or oregon, can never keep them straight) that actually doesn't require cities to meter water - they can also charge a fixed fee, which obviously leads to the tragedy of the commons scenario.

If you have any questions about water meters for residential or commercial use and how they affect water policy, I'm probably your man (at least in this thread)

My most downvoted comment is an offhanded claim in /r/tolkeinfans that technically Gandalf did not die, he just went Super Saiyan. I think i'm proud of it