US States Renamed For Countries W/Similar GDPs

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I found this somewhat interesting. The thing I noticed is that Africa has grown a lot. Around 10-15 years ago I remember reading that Africa had about the same GPD as Illinois & S Africa/Chicago.
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Aren't a few American cities bankrupt? Like Detroit?
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Actually California alone has the 8th largest economy in the world as measured by GDP.

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vladimir wrote:Aren't a few American cities bankrupt? Like Detroit?
Yup. Vallejo and Stockton CA come to mind. Detroit became almost empty after the last banking clusterfuck. Now it's filling up with artists and hipsters believe it or not. White people in Detroit - who-da-thunk-it ?
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wackyjacky wrote:
vladimir wrote:Aren't a few American cities bankrupt? Like Detroit?
Yup. Vallejo and Stockton CA come to mind. Detroit became almost empty after the last banking clusterfuck. Now it's filling up with artists and hipsters believe it or not. White people in Detroit - who-da-thunk-it ?


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wackyjacky wrote:I found this somewhat interesting. The thing I noticed is that Africa has grown a lot. Around 10-15 years ago I remember reading that Africa had about the same GPD as Illinois & S Africa/Chicago.
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Made me look at the country scale ratio and I found this.
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All this time I thought Afrika was a country full of grass-skirted cannibals and man-eating lions.

*Fact: 5.5 MILLION people died in the Congo conflicts between 1998 and 2008. I'm betting most of you never even heard about the majority of them, but everyone has to know about some Hollywood bimbo.

African life is cheap, it seems.
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vladimir wrote:Aren't a few American cities bankrupt? Like Detroit?
Yep. And the state as a whole still has a $382 billion GDP.
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vladimir wrote:Aren't a few American cities bankrupt? Like Detroit?
Yup. Vallejo and Stockton CA come to mind. Detroit became almost empty after the last banking clusterfuck. Now it's filling up with artists and hipsters believe it or not. White people in Detroit - who-da-thunk-it ?
Vallejo left bankruptcy in Nov 2011.
Stockton left bankruptcy in Oct 2013.
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I read ( at least some part) Stockton's was just approved in Jan. Vallejo is certainly doing OK now. Bay Area real estate prices have gone through the roof. Their track homes are selling for close to a million & the Victorian crack houses downtown are surely being renovated. Stockton has to be doing better, but it's so far out there probably just marginally. A lot of cities in Cal were hurting because the State stopped handing over tax monies allocated for municipalities when it got in trouble.
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City economies are kind of odd like that... Vallejo for example went broke because they were trying to pay their city workers CEO salaries and benefits. Civil salaries and benefits made up like 70-80% of their budget if I recall... and now that they've fixed that to a reasonable number they have people up their ass for cutting pensions. It amazes me how many people think money can just be produced out of nowhere, so long as it's going to them.
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