Do you WANT Detroit to fail? (Lansing, Southfield: credit card, lawyers, purchase)

[STLCardsBlues1989]

I'm sure there are good parts of Detroit, or any city for that matter.

[Bhaalspawn]

Originally Posted by trudawg

People in the suburbs subconciously LOVE to hear bad news about Detroit whether it's crime, or failing government. They have to justify in their minds why they've paid so much for the suburban home, and why they endure the 2 hour commute to and from work!

You make it sound as though there's as much of a shred of doubt in people's minds! I'm laughing while trying to imagine an upper middle class guy in the northern suburbs questioning his decision to buy a house in West Bloomfield instead of a house in Detroit.

[GastoniaNative]

Originally Posted by SRL001

I live in Chicago and I think Detroit has a lot going for it. There's no reason central Detroit can't become as lively as Chicago. They're both Rust Belt cities with declining populations and industrial economies. The difference is planning, public transit development, and (hopefully someday) rejuvination of at least some of the public schools. We're staying and raising children in the city because the public schools are now a viable option; this has to happen in Detroit to reclaim middle-class residents, of any race. It won't happen right away, but hopefully the new casinos can bring in some revenue to develop better schools.

I share your same opinion as someone who's spent significant time there.

[Frankawitz]

I have lived in and around Detroit my whole life so far and the people who live outside of Detroit think they are better, it's like the pot calling the kettle black, kinda of a oxymoron. the thing that gets me is when in the spring when it's time to clean up Detroit all you see is all these white folks from the suburbs coming out and cleaning up the alley's and empty lots and yet the residents of Detroit only a small amount of Detroiter come out? I think most of the people who live in Detroit don't want it to get better cause then the taxes will go up and city services would come back like they had back in the 1950's when you could go to Belle Isle have a pininc or go skating in the winter, now you go out there and all you hear is rap music being blasted out of cars and gang members selling drugs, the only places the people from the burbs go are to Comerica Park or Joe Louis Arena or Ford Field all around the downtown area, there is little the rest of the city has to offer. most neighborhoods are run down no one fixes their homes up they just let them go,, this trend has moved to Hamtramck the houses there are showing the signs that all the people who use to give a damn have died or moved out. I live in Roseville and we have seen a influx of so many people from Detroit move in over the last year. We can't let Detroit to go down the tubes but yet we can't keep pouring money down the drain either. Maybe if the city had a Real Mayor and City Council who cared about the city and not their own personel gains then maybe we would see a real change for the better. But intill then it will be the same ole' same ole'.

[swanson]

The news the flaunts the efforts of the commonwealth of the city is the faught of the elected officials. If they fail to uphold the duties of their office and conduct themselves in deplorable and in a reckless manner then they are responsible for their actions. What ever the mayor does has a direct affect on the city. Mr. Kilpatrick has in my expressed opinion become a liability to the city, the county, the state, and he has cause dismay to young elected officials across the states because of his lack of judgement and forgetting that his works and his deeds speak for himself.

Now the prosecutor has the right to try any person whether he be a common person or an elected official because no one absolutely no one is above the resolve of the law.

He has gotten away with quite a bit of controversial things that could have gotten him removed from office nevertheless will this last issue be the final straw that tarnished his mayoral tenure and reputation.

some people said give him a chance and I say he's all out of get out of jail free cards.

Go ahead Worthy and excercise your Jurisprudance and slam the long hand of the Law down on Mr. Untouchable.

lol

We all have to learn from our mistakes no matter what the consequences are!!!!!!!!!

[Shrewsbury Road]

Originally Posted by jeffncandace

It seems that so many people are gleeful at any bad news concerning Detroit--of which there is usually plenty, unfortunately.

Yet sometimes there is positive news...which is immediately held in scorn and disdain by the same people so gleeful at all the bad news.

I realize there are many reasons for this attitude, some are somewhat valid, others definately not.

But my question is...why are you so gleeful upon hearing of more problems in Detroit? Shouldn't we all desire for this town to turn around? Even if you find it impossible to believe that it will, why be so happy upon hearing confirmation that it is not?

And please, no diatribes about why Detroit sucks. Answer the OP, or don't answer at all.

I love Detroit, live in Detroit, and want it to turn around because if it doesn't, the suburbs won't either. I want Detroit to be the place it used to be.

[Shrewsbury Road]

Originally Posted by mikeopto85

Im working hard to help improve the city and its image. I dont even live in the city...yet. I love hearing goods news about the city and I hope that one day we will be world class

You world class like it was before. So do I.

[zthatzmanz28]

Originally Posted by Shrewsbury Road

I love Detroit, live in Detroit, and want it to turn around because if it doesn't, the suburbs won't either. I want Detroit to be the place it used to be.

I would love nothing more than to see Detroit reverse its plunge into the abyss.

However, the burbs have no connection to Detroit's fall or rise.

The suburbs will survive on their own merit === it is Detroit that will fall without the suburbs.

[Shrewsbury Road]

Originally Posted by zthatzmanz28

I would love nothing more than to see Detroit reverse its plunge into the abyss.

However, the burbs have no connection to Detroit's fall or rise.

The suburbs will survive on their own merit === it is Detroit that will fall without the suburbs.

It's obvious you have a strong disliking for the city, fine whatever but really, without central city Detroit, the suburbs wouldn't have what it has today, so what happens if it completely fails, put 2 and 2 together. Furthermore, if your from North Carolina, what do you care what happens to and in Detroit. Talking about Detroit is just something to pass the time with huh? If your residency in M-Detroit is than why is the rise and fall such matter when everything is like the 50s in the suburbs right now because it's not. Probably a lot of your neighbors are suffering due to Detroit's problems, the failing auto industry, ring a bell.

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Maybe it would be best if Detroit failed and got the inevitable over with so a receiver could take over and start making some real changes.