Cairo IL is an interesting topic.Judas Maccabeus wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 10:18 amBeen through Cairo recently. It IS essentially an abandoned city. I have never seen such a mess in the US. IIRC all of the industry has left. The retail sector then left. Only solution is bring on the bulldozers.
The difference between Cairo and Paducah/Cape Girdeau......party in power.
JM,
Note, your audio clip is from 2017, when things were generally on an economic upswing, before the pandemic, before present escalating crime, present politics. Before Ukraine. 2017 was a different world.
i’ve been in Cairo, not an expert, southern Illinois is distinct from central Illinois, distinct from northern Illinois/Chicago.
The deep disregard Chicago generally has for southern Illinois eclipses their deep disregard for central Illinois.
We were remiss to not prepare our two state college freshman for the insults and cruelty they would experience via Chicago students.
We presumed they knew. They didn’t, but quickly learned. We didn’t raise self-centered haters.
Our daughter went to a large central Illinois university, our son went to northern Illinois (Chicago suburb) then to southern Illinois to finish.
It is a formally recognized problem in Illinois that university graduates quickly leave Illinois for work and every other reason.
They can’t wait to get out. i grieve i cannot hope or dream of my family’s return. i can’t argue with reality.
This formerly great place to find work, raise families, find churches and great education .. no more. Moving companies thrive.
In retrospect, i would throw myself in front of an oncoming train to prevent either from attendng a state college, esp Illinois.
IL state colleges are satellites of the Chicago DNC machine. i’m glad many are recognizing the pitfalls of lib gov education.
i digress.
Cairo is an interesting topic. i hope to add more.
Illinois politics (AKA, the Chicago DNC Machine) and its devastating, downstate-gutting policies, are interesting,
i would hope to warn other states, esp warn away voting for Chicago politicians to go to D.C., the White House, federal appointments.
BUYER BEWARE.
Voting for federal reps from failed states makes no sense. That would seem rather basic, if “all things were equal.”
They are not.