Ralph occasionally sends a link about life in Detroit. He’s obsessed with the rot of the big city in the rust belt. This story tells about someone who bought a house cheaply and he likes it there:

My friend Julia & I just bought a vacation home in Detroit. It’s a small but comfortable three-bedroom house in good condition that sits on a shorefront plot of land along the banks of an actual river. The location is serene, and the price was right — the whole thing cost less than a new Cadillac Escalade. A lot less, actually. But that was only part of the appeal. Just as important to us was the idea that Detroit is poised to become a laboratory for the latest social trend: The Greening of America.

His conclusion: It’s a safe place, no enemy is going waste a nuclear weapon on Detroit.