In Monday’s Salon.com, one Chicago resident concocts a novel solution to the Rust Belt’s people shortage and the Sun Belt’s water shortage: come on home, y’all. (Or in other words, you can have our college graduates, California, and you can have our auto factories, Tennessee, but you will never ever take our water.)
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Sun Belters, there's a man in Detroit with the answer to your water problems. "They can have all the water they want," says Hugh McDiarmid Jr. of the Michigan Environmental Council. "All they have to do is move here." There's plenty of room. Some Detroit neighborhoods are so bereft of houses that pheasants hide in the vacant lots. And the cost of living is unbeatable. Earlier this year, an auctioneer was trying to unload a bungalow for $18,000. When no one would bid, he reminded his audience, "You get the land under the house, too."
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