@Background Pony #066F
Swag like Ohio

Now I understand why Ohio is different from the other US state, Equestria sending their bad magic and creature there.

down in ohio

Tbh living in Ohio is cheaper than the national average and on a state wide level buying a home in Ohio is much cheaper than the national average. So if you have “good parents” in the sense you have access to like, reasonable financial assistance to start off then you can get a pretty strong and early foot in Ohio; which also for being considered a rural state is shockingly also pretty urban. For a state it’s size it’s got easily four large metro areas, and a minimum of one of them as public light rail connect it to its suburbs and other large satellite metro area (Columbus-Akron).

The real terror is however Indiana, I’m convinced. A state so blighted even its one major city and capitol is by all means not a city in a formal sense but a well developed truck stop

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
He was in denial and was successful despite being born there.

One of the Wright brothers once said if you want to be successful, have good parents and be born in Ohio.

Man times must have changed since the early 1900s.

Not Ohio*

Not ohio

@Background Pony #72B3
 
Good idea, thanks.
 
@Dirty Bit
 
And I had my first concert there. The New Pornographers were the band I went to see.
 
I don’t know why Ohio meme’d this much.

I will grant this about Ohio: I had my first (possibly only) con there.

@Barry Tone  
Make friends with firefighters. Theres a whole art to home/commercial sabotaging that firefighters have to learn for safety inspection reasons.
 
Yeah water damage is a close second to fire for that reason.

@Background Pony #72B3
 
I didn’t notice at first, I wasn’t looking for insurance fraud in the pic.
 
I saw a building with a concave kitchen floor once, though (the roof was leaking.) The house seemed to have been abandoned for at least 10 years by the time I saw the interior (there was a calendar, though it was about 15 years out of date. I gave leeway, in case someone lived there 3 years after their last calendar.)

@Barry Tone  
Yeah, thats insurance fraud for you. You can tell by the ceiling damage alone. They tried to make it look like the ceiling collapsed due to bad construction but if it was from wear and tear, water or fire (which would be super obvious), the upstairs flooring/ceiling would be concave not be snapped off. The rest of the damage is irrelevant, the insurance company would red flag the whole property then and there.

@Background Pony #7E3D
 
I’m late responding, but it sounds like my kind of place. Nothing’s happening? I already live in a place like that, next door, in Pennsylvania.
 
@The Smiling Pony
 
I didn’t look at many photos, but I seriously was in a building like that more than a few times, before it got REALLY bad. It was a shop, albeit in a rural “nowhere” place in Pennsylvania. There was a tree about 3 feet from the back of the building, and it towered over the 2nd floor; by that wall was a big hole in the wall; the back room ceiling was gone; and by 2015 (about 3 years after it was last open,) the 2nd floor was falling in on the 1st floor. The owner didn’t even get things out of the building, he just left. He didn’t even bother to change lightbulbs in the last 5 years the place was open.
 
But back on Detroit, I found one that you may have seen: 6834 Charlevoix Street. I’ll only post one picture:
 

 
Some of these places remind me of the abandoned brick row houses that were along Route 28 South, between Blawnox and Pittsburgh. They’ve long since been demolished (but the Google Car Pics don’t go back that far, I think they were torn down in 2005 - 2008,) but they were still existing when I was a kid.
 
@Background Pony #EBAB
 
Eh, what I saw was just a blog post in 2013 or so. I can believe you about the crime, but I still have mixed feelings about the town; it’s akin to 2b2t. A terrible place to live, and the town seems to have inhaled the cigarettes and leaded gasoline too much from the 1920s - 1970s. Still, there have to be some small efforts to do better in that junkhole.

@Wayneponeth  
Yes. Florida man is the only one who can hold off the Ohioians.
 

@Antonyourknee  
I like how Florida is so bad not even Ohio dares to touch it lol

@neo4812  
Many things  
 
 

@neo4812  
Everything

what’s wrong with ohio?

@Einsman  
De trots?

even the moon is more pleasant

@dsagent went to Detroit and got de trots

At least it’s not Detroit.

@The Smiling Pony  
I see. I thought it was a reference to this.