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Old 09-17-2008, 09:35 PM
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I was born in Detroit and lived there in the 60's and 70's. Maybe I'm looking at it through rose colored glasses but I miss it. Granted I was in my late teens when I left, but there is something about my hometown that still draws me. Yes it was the "murder capital" even then, and I had relatives, even in the 70's who refused to come into my neighborhood for fear of certain death , but I never felt unsafe there. When I google my old house on the corner of Mack and Wayburn (Upstairs from the old Union Street Bar) it, of course has been demolished, sad. I loved Detroit with all its faults. Now my kid's grown and I'm free to roam. I've been in Texas way too long and wonder how it would be to go back to Detroit. I prefer, and tend to gravitate to the older, inner city parts of town. I must admit when I visit the city I seem to get a little melancholy for what used to be. And when you head out past 16 mile everything is so homogenized it starts to look like Dallas, that's crappy. Is it possible to get the same city feeling in the near suburbs? Or can a person actually live in Detroit? Harper Woods used to be pretty nice. Does anyone have anything good to say about Detroit?

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Old 09-17-2008, 10:03 PM
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Don't go back! Its not there anymore, only in your memories!

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Old 09-17-2008, 10:04 PM
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I used to live on Mack and Newport, went to Carstens and Jackson, perhaps we know each other?

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Old 09-17-2008, 10:12 PM
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I used to live on Mack and Newport, went to Carstens and Jackson, perhaps we know each other?
I went to Carstens in 1967. Do you know if the school still standing?

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Old 09-18-2008, 03:02 AM
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Don't know if the school is still standing, maybe we had some of the same teachers. do you remember Mr. Schleicher, Mrs. Byrnes, Mr. Pantano? I imagine they've long-since retired.

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I think you should definitely come back!
But come to south Warren instead. And buy my house. I'll leave a light on.

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Old 09-18-2008, 11:10 AM
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Do not be foolish. I have came back to Detroit not only once, but twice, and may be one of the only regrets I have in my life. Of course it is hard to cut your roots, but If there is one place in the world it must be done, it's Detroit.

Detroit will eventually be tagged as the first city to be considered "third world" in a first class country.

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Old 09-20-2008, 11:23 PM
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[quote=marylee54;5316010]Don't know if the school is still standing, maybe we had some of the same teachers.

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Old 09-25-2008, 12:52 AM
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I'll give you the same advice my oldman gave me in 87.
DON'T. That's one time in his life he was right.

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We moved back from California and do not regret it (usually). However thre are only a few parts of Detroit that are still livable and then only if you do not have kids. Downtown is pretty neat, but really empty at times. Indian Villiage is still nice.

Royal Oak and Ferndale are neat, happening towns now with lots going on. Ann Arbor is probably the best urban lifestyle you will find in the area.

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