VW Leaves Detroit, Along with Hope and a Future

You see those ruins from ancient civilizations, you know the once thriving port cities and towns along trade routes from the Persian, Greek, or Roman Empires, and you think to yourself: What happened over the years? What could turn a thriving city into an abandoned ghost town with nothing but crumbling ruins?

Well, now we have an answer, everyone please turn your attention to the city of Detroit. Yes, a thousand years from now, the archaeologists of some advanced civilization will be digging through the ruins of the crumbled American empire and they will find Detroit. They will say, hear is this once thriving city, home to industry and innovation. Arguably once one of the most important cities in all the world! And here is it's ruin. What happened? How vast was this city at its peak?

Think it can't happen? There was a city, whose name escapes me, on the mediterranean coast of northern Africa. One of the largest ports and cities in all the Roman empire. An emperor even hailed from there, the first African-born emperor in Roman history. A large, bustling, important, historically significant city. Somehow lost for hundreds of years until archaeologists stumbled upon it. This once rich city now just a collection of wind-blasted columns and sandy paving stones.

Maybe that's an extreme conclusion to draw from this article, but Detroit's been circling the drain for a couple decades now. One more straw on the camel's back.


Sure it may just be one foreign auto maker and about 1,000 jobs. But these losses pile and pile and pile.

VW/Audi Leaves Detroit