An Easter egg hunt in Dayton Ohio?<\/p>\n
There is a name for it: Detroitification<\/a>. The slow urban decay and decline that leaves once glorious buildings to crumble into a state beyond disrepair. What do we do with abandoned buildings? Neglected neighborhoods? Desolate cities? This is not rhetorical, I’m asking a real question. We don’t know the answer. Bloodhound Realty would like us all to move to Phoenix<\/a>. Sorry Odysseus, that ain’t happening.<\/p>\n I love my little city<\/a>. Somewhat dejected, and neglected, and confused as it is, it’s home. It’s got an ebb and flow here that I get. It’s got a history that ebbs and flows through my blood and drives my heart and focuses my mind. It’s part of me and Phoenix will never be part of me. Or San Diego. Or any other boom town.<\/p>\n If you bailed out of flyover country as soon as you were mobile, you won’t understand why I would choose to live here. Without sun half the year. With the possibility of snow for 4 months. With an uncertain future for the city. Why? Why not move to where the sun shines so often you only notice when it isn’t there? Or jobs are so plentiful you are shocked at the first round of layoffs. Boo hoo. Yer best bud has to make his own damn coffee? Man up, Sparky, things are tough all over.<\/p>\n Dayton is a few months from double digit unemployment. We don’t flinch at this news. We aren’t boo hooing into our Starbucks, we are rolling up our sleeves. We know what y’all don’t know- that things change and you can be happy and you can survive, and there’s life and love and joy and home is any damn place you call home.<\/p>\n If Detroitification is your darkest fear<\/a>, if none of this makes any sense to you, I can’t help you. These are extraordinary and unprecedented times- exciting in their own right, and ripe with opportunities that haven’t been invented yet. I don’t have all the answers, but something here is happening, and I feel so fortunate to live in a city that needs Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Easter egg hunt in Dayton Ohio? There is a name for it: Detroitification. The slow urban decay and decline that leaves once glorious buildings to crumble into a state beyond disrepair. What do we do with abandoned buildings? Neglected neighborhoods? Desolate cities? This is not rhetorical, I’m asking a real question. 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