Not necessarily true, yer majesty. Take Detroit for example. Residents left Detroit in droves, and they wanted out so badly that they simply abandoned their property to the City of Detroit. Nobody else wanted it, anyway, so it was worthless and they didn't want to be on the hook for property taxes and insurance. The City of Detroit had SO much abandoned, derelict property on its hands that they deannexed whole areas that were formerly within the city limits. They shrunk the size of the city because they didn't want to have to deal with it, anymore, either! So much for the idea of an ever-increasing property tax base, eh?
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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