The Courage of Detroit

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

The Courage of Detroit

An awesome article written by Mitch Albom. I am from Michigan and am damn proud of that fact, I love this state and plan to spend my life here, IMO there is not a better place on this planet to live.

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[hoodkid 10+ year member]

313 fa life

 

[crunktimes.com 5,000+ posts]

I love this state and plan to spend my life here, IMO there is not a better place on this planet to live.

You must be black, on welfare and have a half dozen baby mommas at minimum would be my guess? Place is a shithole dude esp with the big 3 going bye bye indefinitely soon even if we do 'bail' them out it will happen at some point.

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

You must be black, on welfare and have a half dozen baby mommas at minimum would be my guess? Place is a shithole dude esp with the big 3 going bye bye indefinitely soon even if we do 'bail' them out it will happen at some point.

Nope, I am definitely white, in school and have no kids. Yes the auto industry is having hard times, but it will bounce back, and even then, new things will take its place.

 

[funkyab 10+ year member]

IMO there is not a better place on this planet to live.

Because? Please elaborate. If it is because of the resilience of the people during hard times and their ability to stand up and "stay strong"? If that is what makes you think there is no better place to live you might want to shop around a bit more. Granted people of detroit are having problems, not different than other post industrial cities in the united states and other countries.

To say that there is not a better place on this planet to live, when making that statment regarding the resilience and community and perserverence of the people of detriot is unreasonable.

There are plenty of people dealing with issues and dealing with 100x the challenges that those in detroit must contend with. Many of them would consider the situation of the most downtrodden in detroit a paradise.

 

[yne721 10+ year member]

omg i hate it here. what is there to love?

 

[99grandprixGT 5,000+ posts]

to lazy to read the article

 

[infamous_e46 5,000+ posts]

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

It's way too cold there.

 

[Tricked 10+ year member]

The Courage of Detroit
An awesome article written by Mitch Albom. I am from Michigan and am damn proud of that fact, I love this state and plan to spend my life here, IMO there is not a better place on this planet to live.

I'm right there with you.

 

[GreenBook 10+ year member]

No offense man but your avatar says you live in houghton which is nowhere near detroit; and it's also a really nice area of the state, my grandparents live up there. If you were to roam around some of the worse off neighborhoods in detriot pontiac or flint; you wouldn't like it here so much. Almost everyday I run into crackheads, junkies, and hookers on streetcorners (the hooker thing is relatively new in my area, never seen em till last summer). Pontiac is so screwed cause there's no cops, so every1 does what they want.

Just last weekend I met some lady in my buddies neighborhood, the very next day that same lady was picked up in an amulance and had her baby 2 months early cause turns out she was a crackhead and o-d'ed. She didn't even seem like a basehead when I met her. There are alot of nice people here don't get me wrong, but it's far from great, and I'd be happy as hell if I could move.

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

What other cities and places have you lived in?

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

Jim Schwartz is no miracle worker!

 

[slim8605 10+ year member]

I've never actually been to Detroit but I've NEVER heard anything good about it.

 

[swaptrex 10+ year member]

No... this state is horrible for many reasons.

Granholm, lack of work, weather, crime, poverty, etc