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> From a Detroiter to one who clearly has never been here, kindly go fuck yourself. I have been to Detroit. It was pretty low energy, and that was some years a
by microcolonel 9y ago
> From a Detroiter to one who clearly has never been here, kindly go fuck yourself.
I have been to Detroit. It was pretty low energy, and that was some years ago (six?). Since then the crime has risen and the population and economic activity have declined. The mere fact that some buildings are being built in some places does not indicate that things are getting much better.
I understand the Michigander pride, but I don't think Detroit compares favourably to almost any other decent city in North America. I like the character of Detroit, but I'm not going to pretend it's booming. It can get better, and a broken city presents a lot of opportunity that a functioning city does not, but that doesn't make it any less broken in the moment.
Detroit is a city where about one in two thousand people are murdered every year, nearly nine times the U.S. average. A city where ~1.4 per thousand women are raped every year, about twice the national average. This is, in relative terms, not a pleasant or safe place to live.
Michigan in general is actually about on par with the national median, Detroit has suffered especially harshly.
- detroit1234 9y agoI pay probably half of what you do in rent. Allow me to weep all the way to the bank and then pop downtown for a cocktail made out of my tears. Seriously, have you BEEN here lately? Detroit from four years ago is not the Detroit of today. But fine, Detroit doesn't need people like you anyway. This is a city for people who know how to put up with a lot of crap and not flee to the boring, expensive suburbs when shit gets hard.
- detroit1234 9y agoOh, and about the crime: most of it is either property theft or drug-related. The truth is: if you aren't in a gang or buying drugs somewhere you shouldn't be, you'll more than likely be fine. You sound like all of the grumpy old white people who live in my neighborhood and expect Detroit to be Ferndale or Royal Oak or Ann Arbor. It's not. Also, welcome to cities, they have crime.
- detroit1234 9y agoDid you know that some people in Detroit are much more likely to be murdered than others? 1 in 2000 doesn't mean that you roll the dice every day and pray. The people being murdered are overwhelmingly poor people getting involved in drugs/gang activity or domestic violence or what-have-you.
- detroit12345 9y agoPiss off. If you haven't been here for six years, what the fuck could you possibly know? Detroit doesn't want you, asshole.
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