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Have you been to Haiti? Look Detroit has its problems but its no third world country. Turn off the TV sometimes. smh
I'm Haitian, Detroit is NOWHERE NEAR as dreary, depressed, dilapidated and poverty-stricken as Haiti is. You can have run-down crack houses, or public-housing, but even THAT is a HUGE world of difference from a third-world slum with no running water. Detroit is far from where Haiti is now(even before the Great Earthquake of 2010). It's just hyperbole, it's all just hyperbole they're using.
People on city-data know so much about population, and GDP, and urbanism more than your average person. But at the same time people on C-D have to be the most most uniformed, and are gullible to media stereotypes, more than most people in America. And the ones that ARE informed, are some of the most pretentious people in America.
Exactly. Then I see comments like this.
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I'm Haitian, Detroit is NOWHERE NEAR as dreary, depressed, dilapidated and poverty-stricken as Haiti is. You can have run-down crack houses, or public-housing, but even THAT is a HUGE world of difference from a third-world slum with no running water. Detroit is far from where Haiti is now(even before the Great Earthquake of 2010). It's just hyperbole, it's all just hyperbole they're using.
Thank you! People don't even realized there is much more to Detroit than the ghettos. Last time I checked we had plenty of intact neighborhoods from the typical working class to upper class and everything in between. I swear people on C-D think they know so much and don't know **** (ie the "Detroit is a ****ehole" comment about smh idiot)
then again how in the hell can you compare a city to a whole country anyway?
Miami and entire South Florida region - have you read the negatives on this forum? Enough for me personally.
Detroit - "You better lose yourself in the [depression]"
Milwaukee and SE Wisconsin - working in customer service, many of the clients I met from there were cold, surly and impolite. Not really mean, but just a terrible sense of deep-seeded collective anger. No thanks!
Indianapolis - the state of Indiana generally fits the Milwaukee description above. Plus, it's just a boring city.
Washington, DC and capital region - the only place I've ever been where the cops have LIED in giving immediate directions. Much of the city is a run-down dump and the folks ain't 'dat fraaandly.
Honorable mentions are cities that I would move to if and only if the right job opportunity arose: any other city in Michigan, any city in North Dakota, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska; Denver, Phoenix, Dallas, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus (OH), Green Bay, Duluth (MN), Cedar Rapids (IA), St. Louis, Kansas City, Montgomery (AL), Macon (GA), Columbus (GA), Baltimore, Buffalo, Rochester
People on city-data know so much about population, and GDP, and urbanism more than your average person. But at the same time people on C-D have to be the most most uniformed, and are gullible to media stereotypes, more than most people in America. And the ones that ARE informed, are some of the most pretentious people in America.
haha Can't rep you enough!
I get so sick of people laying the Hollywood stereotype on all of California/Southern California. I hardly think half these so called "experts" have even been to half the cities they blatantly stereotype.
Phoenix gets picked on a lot. It really isn't that bad. I could live there fine if I had to.
all of Detroit is not run down or abandoned. WE LOST HALF OF OUR POPULATION! what do people not understand about that??? when a city looses half its population there is going to be some abandonment
people on this site I swear smh
I just want to say that Detroit is a cool city. All of my family lives there and I've been going there every summer since I was 6 years old in 1974. While the economy has taken its toll, and Kwame has managed to screw everyone over, Detroit is still neat. From what I've heard Detroit is a good investment opportunity, and Dave Bing has done alot. Hamtramck is still, in my opinion, incredible. I have no idea why, but it is. People give Detriot too much crap.
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