I drove through Michigan and Detroit on my way from Canada to Chicago last winter. It depressed the hell out of me and, more to your point, reminded me a lot of East Berlin when I took a tour of it in the late 1980s before the Wall came down.
Posted by sheiler on December 17, 2012 at 11:54 AM
@1, you don't have to go as far as East Berlin. Just visit Ancoats in Manchester or the Dingle in Liverpool (or a dozen other neighborhoods that were bombed to rubble, not by the Germans but by their local councils, and in many cases still look that way today.
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