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Same with the office blocks here. We're only a little County Town, but there are wheels within wheels.
Less about residents and more about property companies owned by property companies, owned by conglomerates, backed by investment funds etc etc etc.

So in the mean time the places slowly fall apart (on a tiny scale compared to Detroit) because the ultimate owners hope that Godzilla will turn up and stomp them flat and they can just throw their hands up and say, "Who'da thought?!"