Interview · moment 14 of 21
Flint, Ghost Towns, and Relocating Dying American Cities
from #264 - Time Is A Fat Circle | The Tim Dillon Show · #264
3 min
Guest
They discuss Flint's ongoing water crisis as a preview of American decline, joking about a government program to relocate people from dying rust belt cities and consolidate them into fewer 'nice' cities.
- Tim predicts more American cities will become ghost towns as people leave for better opportunities, including police officers abandoning struggling regions.
- These abandoned areas will become no-man's-lands where nobody goes, and the remaining trapped residents face increasingly hellish living conditions.
- Tim asks why people haven't simply relocated residents from dying cities the way people historically abandoned ghost towns.
- Tim imagines a hypothetical Biden proposal: a mandatory government relocation project randomly assigning Americans to adopt Flint families.
- The relocation problem: most American cities outside New York, Chicago, Miami, and LA are themselves economically struggling and can't absorb new residents.
- Tim proposes consolidating failing cities like Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Omaha into one or two thriving urban centers instead.
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