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Old 01-29-2010, 05:05 PM
 
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All my life I've heard how bad Detroit is.

Why is this? Is the city mostly run-down? Is it the people who live there, regardless of race? Is there a of crime?

What makes it a bad place?
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Old 01-29-2010, 06:12 PM
 
Location: 30-40°N 90-100°W
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I think it's a mix of unemployment, crime, and poverty statistics. Still I had heard of more middle-class areas of Detroit and it did have "Motown."
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Old 01-29-2010, 06:15 PM
 
Location: moving again
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Depopulation always has considerable effects on a city, as shown throughout history. It's at Half the population it was at it's peak.
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Old 01-29-2010, 07:14 PM
 
Location: Minneapolis
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All my life I've heard how bad Detroit is.

Why is this? Is the city mostly run-down? Is it the people who live there, regardless of race? Is there a of crime?

What makes it a bad place?
This pretty much sums it up.
Detroit stadium or New York studio? The Silverdome sells for $583,000 - DailyFinance

The Silverdome sold for $583,000.
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Old 01-29-2010, 07:18 PM
 
Location: New York City
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Unemployment is outrageous (Nearly half of Detroit's workers are unemployed | detnews.com | The Detroit News (http://www.detnews.com/article/20091216/METRO01/912160374/Nearly-half-of-Detroit-s-workers-are-unemployed - broken link)).
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Old 01-29-2010, 08:08 PM
 
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What's so bad about Detroit?

The crime-- which isn't as bad as anyone thinks-- is bad. The unemployment is terrible. The poverty is crushing.

But what's really bad is that it's a hideously corrupt town (do we really have to pretend that it's still a city?) that's been dead for years but for the tax revenue it steals from the rest of the state.

That's what is actually bad about Detroit. It's a tick on the state of Michigan, which frankly has enough problems without needing any more. The mentality is that Detroit will somehow "come back", which is a big surprise to my friends and family in Michigan. They've long since lost any consciousness of that area, and to hear them speak of it they're surprised one and all to find out that "metro Detroit" is used to refer to wherever it is that they live.
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Old 01-29-2010, 08:41 PM
 
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Yeah, visiting Detroit was interesting. Most cities might have neighborhood problems, but usually the heartbeat of the metro was in the core city. Be it downtown, swanky neighborhoods, etc.

In Detroit it's like all the "life" of the metro permenantly picked up and moved out to various areas of the suburbs. Going downtown to sports events - and then leaving right away - seem to be the only time people venture into "the city".

It's like a huge donut. Empty in the middle, with everything happening all over the suburbs. People live their lives and think of the metro area as the suburbs. The actual City of Detroit is just this leach that's connected to the side.
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Old 01-29-2010, 08:43 PM
 
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I think it's worth noting that there are some pretty areas inside the city, with gorgeous up kept hosing and architecture

IMO, Detroit has some of America's Richest architecture, especially downtown
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Old 01-29-2010, 09:19 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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All my life I've heard how bad Detroit is.

Why is this? Is the city mostly run-down? Is it the people who live there, regardless of race? Is there a of crime?

What makes it a bad place?
Its a awful place to reside, and this is from a first person perspective as I'am a resident of Michigan.
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Old 01-29-2010, 09:21 PM
 
Location: Somewhere below Mason/Dixon
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I live in central Michigan about 100 miles northwest of that festering urban sewer Detoilet. Most of us in MI consider detroit a major embarassment to our state. Its problems have ruined our entire states reputation, drained our states budget of cash, filled our prisons with its wonderful residents. Any one who has ever been to Detoilet knows that a part of the third world thrives deep in the heart of North America. Buildings burned and abandoned, broken roads and bridges, local politicians corrupt as any tin horned dictator in a bannana republic. The citizens of Detroit will steal anything that is not nailed down, are hooked on drugs, leach off the rest of the people of Michigan through the welfare system. Just take a drive into this place and you will think your on the set of a post apocolyptic movie. Google the "ruins of Detroit" and you can see pictures of it your self. Im sure some will respond to this post calling me a Detroit hater and accusing me of painting with a broad brush. Those people can live in whatever fantasy world they want, but the reality of Detroit is very very bad. Kwame Kilpatrick does represent the real Detroit, the corrupt detroit filled with crime and decay. Ive been to 46 states and I have never seen the level of decay I have in Detroit, (only gary Ind comes close). Even the gritty run down cities of the northeast are not as bad as Detroit. Detroit is the armpit of America and it deserves its reputation.
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