Both are broke and under emergency care. One is a post industrial landscape where people eke out a miserable existence, the other is a city in Michigan.
Seriously, in one or two ways its perhaps worse…See the figures for 2012 below (detroit figures taken from the Emergency Managers Report)
Detroit | Ireland | |
Population | 684799 | 4585400 |
Labour Force | 343852 | 2126184 |
Unemployment | 63896 | 294600 |
LF as % Pop | 50% | 46% |
Dependency | 1.99 | 2.16 |
UE | 19% | 14% |
Income | 1196 | 36646 |
Expenditure | 1318 | 44950 |
Deficit | -122 | -8304 |
DEf as % income | -10.2% | -22.7% |
ok so we dont have the same level of crime and the same degree of urban blight. But they have arguably better weather and at least as good a music tradition.