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I really like what And the had to say, mainly because he did live there and gave it a great shot. How hard it must be to grow up somewhere and see your city deteriorate and then to have to hear constantly how someone you care about gets their freedoms infringed upon by uncaring, ignorant individuals who have some ill placed sense of entitlement. To be afraid to leave your home that you worked so hard on building hopes on. To have to sleep with a weapon next to you.
How can anyone who has not lived that even have ONE iota of defense against someone who has? If a person has a pet peeve about where someone says they live, so be it. If you don't live inside Detroit, don't say you do. Geesh, what other untruths does someone else spout if they spout that. If you say it for the geograpical simplification, that is one thing, and it is still incorrect. If you do it because you think you live there and are trying to be all proud of it, when in fact you are cozy in the suburbs, that is just wrong, really.
Seems as if it is like saying that you were in 'Nam when you were just enlisted, not actually there. Hard to defend fighting the battle, when you were not in the field.
Loving Detroit, wishing it was the way it used to be, hoping it will be one day...will not make it happen.
I say, Good Luck to Detroit. I grew up in Ferndale. Lots of memories of Detroit, but I am where I am at this moment and where I am is where I will be proud to be today. Memories are just that. Living in the past is a waste of energy. Yet, I do wish good things for Detroit and any other struggling city out there, they all started somewhere....
Those were amazing pictures. It was like reading a really great book, looking through those, from the stories they portrayed of Detroit. That were beautiful in all of their decrepitness. Thanks!
I think this thread should be at the top of the forum, a Sticky even. "and the" really drives it home in this thread...dead on the money. I agree 100%, and I'm willing to bet that the majority of Detroiters would too if they were able to afford computers and internet service.
I am from Detroit, and damn proud of it for whoever wants to know. I have no problems with being from Detroit. Raised on the eastside. I'm not poor or dumb. All my family still live in Detroit and are doing quite well. They would never think about leaving Detroit. I chose to leave because I got tired of the cold weather, but let me tell you I miss Detroit and all it has to offer.
I personally think anyone from the Metro area is from Detroit. It's the same as someone from Chicagoland saying they're from Chicago. And the got owned by OP and I am on St8's side.
Like the "Detroit Patriots" a couple post before me said. I will thrash anyone who talks negatively about Detroit.
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