Here is a video version of the "ruins of Detroit" done by PJTV. They don't show sections like Grosse Point with its multi million dollar homes b/c that does not make good shocking TV. But, unfortunately, these sites are all too common. YouTube - Detroit in RUINS! (Crowder goes Ghetto)
I think Detroit is a shit hole. I hate going into it for anything. I was praying that Novi would get the Autoshow but that did not happen. The outlining cities are really nice though. The only area of Detroit I really like is around where the Moogian Mansion is. It's funny because Grosse Point is so close to Detroit but one of the nicest riches communities in Michigan.
I posted a link to this video about 1 week ago on another thread about Detroit. Grosse Point is a nice area but it's not in Detroit. Detroit does have some areas that are still pretty nice. When I worked downtown I looked at some houses (more like mansions) in an area called Palmer park (7 mile and Woodward on the west side of Woodward). They had some unbelievable mansions I could have purchased for $200,000 at the time. The problem is I probably would have had to hire a full time security guard to watch it.
GBS your right. now even palmer park isn't doing too well.(this is putting it nicely) RICHY. detroit is detroit not oakland county, or the points (for a long long time one of the wealthiest counties in the US) it is a bummer that we couldn't keep detroit a live and well after the riots when the urban sprawl started. I grew up on detroits east side, we moved to a city now called Eastpointe where i attended 1-9th grade. then again moved a little further out to northern warren... I now own a home about 24 miles north of the city's core. Times are 100% different from when i grew up. it will be interesting to see what the burbs will look like after 15 years. scary in a way. as to try and fathom an industry that will be sparked and use up all this empty warehouses and plants and office complexes.. it is sad... i know jason and richy might be defensive which is a 100% on point for a Detroit native to be. we are strong willed and hell bent on the city and area surviving .... but when you think of now many millions (more like billions i'm aure) of empty real estate it is just hard to image. am i a detroit basher? NO am i being realistic? YES
Not only that but it's almost impossible to get insurance on a house or business in the city unless you want to pay more than what it's worth. LOL
The best thing Eastpointe did was branch off from the city. There are some nice neighborhoods there too. In a time where everyone is leaving the city I know a person that just moved their dumbasses from Woodhaven to Mexican Town. Who would do that? They have a kid too that just got demoted back to kindergarten from 1st grade in Woodhaven and now they are putting them back into Detroit Public Schools?
richy, I agree with you that too many videos on YouTube can be found, depicting the burnt down houses, abandoned structures, urban prairies and so on. Yes, Detroit has a lot of problems, but there are still folks like us who live in the region - and as gloomy as it is - this place is home. Folks need to hunker down, pull themselves up by the boot-straps, and stop living beyond their means. We'll be O.K.
Just so you know Eastpointe was never part of detroit even though the city was named East Detroit. "It incorporated as the village of Halfway in December 1924 and reincorporated as the City of East Detroit in January 1929. The city changed its name to "Eastpointe" after a vote in 1992; the name change had been proposed to remove any perceived association with the adjacent city of Detroit; the "-pointe" is intended to associate the city instead with the nearby exclusive communities of the Grosse Pointes. Prior to 1924, most of the community formed a part of Erin Township."
this one is one of my favorites. The abandoned Detroit Public Schools Book Depository, Detroit, Michigan, USA
I never meant to come off as defensive about Detroit but what I do think is not right is to only highlight the bad areas and not the good.... Sure there are some real shithole areas in the city, BUT the same can be said for ALL major cities I have had the chance to live in a few major cities in the US and visited even more. One thing THEY ALL have in common is that they have all had run down, drug and gang infested areas...
i agree 100% there are ghetto's everywhere you look. it is hard to come back from the 80's when there was more guns than people in the city of detroit but for real is any one honestly going to write about the down fall of BLoomfield? or the Pointes? no
Thats a good point Jedidiah, but it truly needs to be done. Bloomfield/b-hills/West bloom. along with the Grosse Pointes are areas that have been hit hard as well. Surely nothing is quite like the city of Detroit itself, but they're such a strong and important link to the metro-Detroit community that one ALWAYS affects the other. Those "rich" cities suffer from high rates of forecloser, job loss, under-water mortgages, and budget cuts just like the poor ones do. When it comes down to it, Detroit often gets ripped on, and justly so. The problem isn't that people talk about Detroit's problems - its they do nothing to help the situation nor do they acknowledge those same problem exist in most major cities across America; especially northern industrialization-based "rust belt" cities. Sure we're the home of the NAIAS, and thats all fine and dandy, but COBO needs some major help. Even if you call the show the North American International Auto Show, Chicago's is still better, as is NY's, and LA's. Last year was the first major sign of this as Porsche, Rolls, Nissan, and other companies skipped Detroit's show. All-in-all, Detroit has its problems, but other places do too.
