Brown Out of Detroit

[ClipJoint]

Easy Money is right on with his post. Most of these athletes live around Bloomfield Hills & Orchard Lake anyhow which is one of the richest areas in the country with mostly Auto Execs from around the world. Beautiful huge houses and golf courses that are top tier. Oakland Hills ring a bell.

Clip Joint- What part of Detroit were you in? Sounds like Eminen's neighborhood in the movie 8 mile where only a fool would be. Plenty of shit areas around Detroit but millionaire basketball coaches don't live within 30 miles of it. Lakeside property in Grosse Pointe on the East side also very old money with magnificent homes. If you do want to drive by some shit you can go downtown to 3 casinos that most major cities don't provide either. Plenty of shit surrounding Manhattan as you drive into it as well or Chicago going to Michigan Avenue or Lakefront Drive. Big cities have big slums to go with their big money areas and Detroit looks like Beirut in many city limit areas.
It's like saying Englewood and Compton is the entire Los Angeles area. Staples isn't located in a big income area either but is better than the old Sport Arena or Forum.

So you are comparing Detroit to LA? LMFAO.

Big difference...the MAJORITY of LA is about as nice as anywhere in the country...maybe even the world. The weather is in the mid 80's and you are always within driving distance to the beach.

Obviously cities have bad areas...but what percentage is bad compared to nice?

Detroit literally looked like a war zone...busted out windows in a majority of the empty industrial style buildings. Shitty roads with holes or large chunks of pavement missing. It looked like they had more homeless than any city I have ever seen. The place is ghetto. We are not talking about just certain spots and then you hit Rodeo Drive and Melrose Avenue...almost the entire downtown was nasty.

I saw where 8 Mile Ave was and a majority of the city looked like that or worse.

I spent a lot of my time in Sterling Heights, but to say there are nice areas in Detroit the city is laughable. There were literally a FEW blocks in the entire city that were decent.

 

[lander]

Detroit is one of America's finest cities. There is nothing more American that an ol' fashioned blue-colllared, rough, blue state city.

God bless the upstanding citizens of Detroit and their fine sports tradition.

 

[applepicks]

lander,
how correct you are!!!!! Detroit used to be the "murder capital of the nation" now the host MLB all-star game and the Super Bowl in one year. Yeah it's really a ghetto ha?

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[michael777]

Detroit is one of America's finest cities. There is nothing more American that an ol' fashioned blue-colllared, rough, blue state city.

God bless the upstanding citizens of Detroit and their fine sports tradition.

i live 2 block's from detroit,thank's for the love lander

 

[tenman]

I really dont care one way or another. And yes detroit isnt a great city, but then again the pistons dont play in detroit. There stadium is 33 miles outside of detroit. Much like the miami dolphins aren't really in Miami. Most big citys are shitholes. With the exception of 1 day a few years ago Chicago has had at least 1 murder every single day for something like 15 years. And yes I've been there I used to live in Michigan. And will agree if you get in the wrong parts of detroit you fear for your life, but the palace isnt in those places. Now if you go down to the end of 8 mile by the MGM casino, the old tiger stadium, or Joe Louis Arena. those are bad areas. but again the palace is 35 miles from the old tiger stadium and joe louis arena. Thats quite a ways. And the farther north you go the better it is. There is actually some very, very rich neighborhoods around auburn hills.

100% right on. I have lived in the burbs all my life and, of course, there are bad parts of Detroit, but there are also many good parts. There are bad parts in LA (South Central) and good parts. All cities are nowhere near perfect.

 

[ClipJoint]

I apologize to anyone who lives in or near Detroit if I offended you. That was not my intention. Saying the city is trash doesn't have anything to do with the people that live there.

From all of the people I talked to while I was there, the biggest reason the city is so torn up today is because of the decline in the motor industry. There just aren't as many jobs as they once had when the big car companies were manufacturing there.

I don't know what could be done to clean that place up because what business would ever want to renovate those areas? It certainly isn't an ideal spot for most businesses.

To say that "every city has good and bad spots" is obvious...but most cities the good far outweighs the bad. In Detroit, the bad far outweighs the good. What areas would you consider to be nice inside Detroit?

 

[Aquatic]

Clip Joint

The most homeless I ever walked through was leaving the Third Street Promenade and walking to the Pier in Santa Monica. They passed laws there if I remember that you couldn't run them off. Smelled like piss. LA also has streets that are basically tent city. Since I don't walk streets in Detroit I don't have to deal with that shit. As bad as Detroit might be in the city limits ,with under 900K residents, when your coming home from a Pistons game it's usually after a win and no bad neighborhoods as well. Something a nite at Staples watching the Clippers can't say on both ends usually.:howdy:

 

[applepicks]

Greek Town, Hart Plaza,The Ren Cen and of course the famous "Gratiot Avenue" ha ha. The reality if the Fords, and Illitchs have dumped some serious cash into downtown.What other "Ghetto" of a city can my Limo pull up out front of Greektown Casino and WALK to the ballpark and football field? Not many!!!!!!

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[ClipJoint]

The most homeless I ever walked through was leaving the Third Street Promenade and walking to the Pier in Santa Monica. They passed laws there if I remember that you couldn't run them off. Smelled like piss. LA also has streets that are basically tent city. Since I don't walk streets in Detroit I don't have to deal with that shit. As bad as Detroit might be in the city limits ,with under 900K residents, when your coming home from a Pistons game it's usually after a win and no bad neighborhoods as well. Something a nite at Staples watching the Clippers can't say on both ends usually.:howdy:

I'll put LA up against Detroit any day of the week as far as the quality of life.

 

[Aquatic]

Detroit city limits suck and away from Downtown it's mostly poor blacks. There are 6 million people in the suburbs and under 900,000 living in the Detroit City limits. The freeways move very good throughout the area so it's easy to bypass anything you don't care to see. You can also go across the bridge to Windsor and hit the casino, get legal escort service cheap and walk along the river in crime free Canada. If not just stay West of Evergreen, North of 9 mile, East of Gratiot and South of Ford Road and you won't see Beirut except the same way I saw the Bronx going to Manhattan or Chicago on the Dan Ryan going through Southside. The Freeway!

If you got money then the Detroit area has plenty of quality life as L.A. does without the constant traffic jams and population explosion and language barriers and pretentious shallow people. People around Detroit usually mean what they say to your face.

 

[applepicks]

city limits suck? Have we not been downtown in the last 3 years? Is not Hockeytown, Comerica, and Ford Field a decent area nice or no? Last time I was there I walked freely and was not worried a bit. Ya'all must hang out in the "ghetto". Yeah I-94 through the city is the way to go if you must see all the old automotive plants that are shutdown and the underdeveloped areas. But come on from where Detroit was 10 years ago the place is alot better (IE Superbowl and Allstar game).

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[Aquatic]

Apple

I'm talking about the entire city limits or neighborhoods that go from south of 8 mile over to Southfield freeway, River Rouge Bridge and out to St.Clair. I got no problems walking from Hockeytown Cafe to Greektown but that's just a few blocks in downtown Detroit on Woodward and past Grand Circus Park.

Just like say L.A. where nobody lives in the actual L.A. city limits but mainly Hispanics and Blacks.

 

[michael777]

i have lived here my whole life,44 years,kwame (hip hop) kilpatrick,the great mayor of detroit will take care of everything :lolBIG:

 

[tenman]

city limits suck? Have we not been downtown in the last 3 years? Is not Hockeytown, Comerica, and Ford Field a decent area nice or no? Last time I was there I walked freely and was not worried a bit. Ya'all must hang out in the "ghetto". Yeah I-94 through the city is the way to go if you must see all the old automotive plants that are shutdown and the underdeveloped areas. But come on from where Detroit was 10 years ago the place is alot better (IE Superbowl and Allstar game).

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Don't forget about the Final Four in 2009 and the Frozen Four in 2010, both at Ford Field

 

[tenman]

i have lived here my whole life,44 years,kwame (hip hop) kilpatrick,the great mayor of detroit will take care of everything :lolBIG:

:lolBIG:

He won't even get re-elected

 

[TTinCO]

I've never been to Detroit, but I can whole heartedly give a great big :finger: to the Detroit Dead Wings who can all kiss my :carto1710

(It's an Av's thing )

 

[tenman]

I've never been to Detroit, but I can whole heartedly give a great big :finger: to the Detroit Dead Wings who can all kiss my :carto1710

(It's an Av's thing )

Them be fightin' words :lolBIG:

 

[applepicks]

The AVS? Come On!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sorry its a "AVS THING" as in my living room I still have the "turtle" move by Claude Lemeuix as Darren McCarty whoops his as. The Avs have never been anything but cheap shot team who lures high priced veterans before the playoffs. Oh by the way who is the Avs goalie nowadays? Thats what I thought NOBODY. You might as well put a dead body in front of the net as this year they'll be lucky to win 30 games.

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[Aquatic]

Avalanche vs Red Wings

80+ years a franchise or barely 10 years a franchise.

The real reason to hate the French are the Avalance aka Nordiques.:finger:

TTinCo- You ever show up at Joe Louis Arena in an Avalanche jersey?

Red Wings jersey all around in Denver when the Wings show up.

 

[applepicks]

an Avs jersey?

yeah if you feel like wearin beer for the rest of the night. Its a shame the Wings haven;t signed a new Goon (ala Probert, or Stu"all I can do is whoop ass" Grimson) to whoop some 'lanche ass.