What happened to Gary, IN?

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I was driving to Chicago to visit some fam and had to make a detour through Gary. What I saw I have never seen in my life and I grew up in Oakland East Side, too! As soon as I got off the freeway and hit the downtown road, nearly every building was abandoned and there was a nasty stench in the air. There were a few people standing on the street corners looking real sketch and I they were holding pistols and waving them around like it was a normal thing to do. People walked past them and didn't even flinch about it. As a passed a couple of cars parked on the road, they all had their windows busted out, I'm assuming they were stolen. As I got closer to get back on the expressway, there were several burned out buildings and a police car that looked like it had been stripped. This place is worse than the shanty towns of a third world country. I have seen my share of crime and bad neighborhoods all over the country and in my hometown of Oakland. This, however, was something I have never seen.

My question is: What the hell happened to this place?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Drive Thru Parts of Buffalo, Toledo, Detroit, St. Louis, Atlanta, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philly, Rochester, Cleveland, Youngstown, Cincinnati, Indy, etc......
It's what happens when all the factories close because of the free trade agreement, and the bureaucrats in Washington have no clue, and no one has jobs anymore.

Anonymous · Answer

You smelled the stench.  People abided that stench and the high cancer rates when it meant jobs.

Now Gary has become an abandoned brown field.   Too polluted for any company to want to move into.  Too broke to clean the place up. 

Welcome to the Libertarians Future.

Anonymous · Answer

It's not just in Gary, In. 
Drive to many cities, and you'll see the side of America that the media and politicians do not want shown. The Real America !
Lost jobs, lost wages, lost benefits, lost optimism, lost homes, factories, etc.....

? · Answer

democrats. they go down there every 2 years and tell them who to vote for. they put their welfare on debit cards and closed the local office. they kept getting robbed.

Anonymous · Answer

"They" moved in and brought their ignorance, stupidity, and destruction.

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