What city is the most comparable to Detroit? (comparison, bigger, population)
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To me, Detroit reminds me of 50% Cleveland, 35% Chicago, and 15% Buffalo.
I think what is unique is the Detroit is the nationwide cultural center of many Arab ethnic groups kind of like how Chicago is for the Polish.
Cleveland has long been major home for Poles and other Eastern Europeans... One of its oldest neighborhoods is Slavic Village, which has been hit hard with the 2008 mortgage crises and poverty... Sadly SV was the home, at the time, of Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist wacka-doodle who assassinated Pres. McKinley in 1901... Czolgosz originally, though, was from Detroit ... ironically enough.
Cleveland also has a rapidly growing Arab-American community that, as in Detroit, run a number of small business, esp gas station/mini-marts, for some reason... But Cleveland's Arab community is nowhere near the size, and influence, of Detroit's. Cleveland has no counterpart to Dearborn in that sense.
I was more talking about the City which, to my mind, is pancake flat with wide, largely straight avenues radiating from downtown. Suburban Detroit is gigantic, and I've only been to parts of it; mainly out the Woodward corridor (Ferndale, Royal Oak, Birmingham and parts of Bloomfield Hills)... A few of the G. Pointes; Dearborn and the rather faceless areas around Metro Airport.... All those areas didn't impress me as particularly hill although some (like Grosse Pointe, Birmingham and R.O. were interesting/scenic).
Yeah, the city proper is pretty flat for sure, although the hills start just outside the city border to the northwest, around Farmington Hills.
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Cleveland has long been major home for Poles and other Eastern Europeans... One of its oldest neighborhoods is Slavic Village, which has been hit hard with the 2008 mortgage crises and poverty... Sadly SV was the home, at the time, of Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist wacka-doodle who assassinated Pres. McKinley in 1901... Czolgosz originally, though, was from Detroit ... ironically enough.
Cleveland also has a rapidly growing Arab-American community that, as in Detroit, run a number of small business, esp gas station/mini-marts, for some reason... But Cleveland's Arab community is nowhere near the size, and influence, of Detroit's. Cleveland has no counterpart to Dearborn in that sense.
Its not really comparable though. Detroit continues to see large numbers of immigrants from that region of the world. Cleveland was once a huge magnet for immigrants from Eastern Europe but it isnt anymore. People dont really come here from Europe anymore in general and thats not specific to Cleveland.
I remember when people used to compare Atlanta to Detroit. It has even been nicknamed the "Motown of the South". I haven't heard the comparison for about the last 10 years or so.
The city of Detroit is similar to the city of Philadelphia.
I don't see this at all. Philly is an older Colonial city of narrow streets, row houses, Eastern accents (derived partly from England), tight neighborhoods, very few freeways (and many are old-style (few lanes, limited acceleration areas off entrance ramps, etc), significant mass transit orientation and far less American-style cul-de-sac suburban sprawl (more traditional rail commuter towns, country roads and lots of green space in-between).
Detroit is an Industrial Age, Midwestern City of wide, straight streets, individual homes (many wood-frame), flat American/Midwestern accents, tons of freeways (which carve up city proper), very little mass transit (zero rail, limited bus routes) and surrounded by typical, extensive American sprawl.
In my mind, the 2 cities couldn't be more different.
They boomed around the same time. Both former industrial hubs.
There can definitely be comparisons made with the other cities in the poll, but the Great Lake similarities make them very much alike. Cleveland is a smaller version of Detroit. IMO
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