What image has Detroit left in your mind?

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Miss independent

I think of my hometown I live in. =)

valued_maturity

All cities have the SAME issues...

IGNORANT people who do IGNORANT things!!!

and GOOD people who do NICE things!!!

...all in a struggle!!!

im on a boat

Detroit actually isn't all that bad. I live about 15 minutes away, in Wixom so I'm there often. It has a good side, which many people don't know about, and a bad side. The bad side just has a bunch of old, run down buildings. The only reason it's like that is because people with low funding have to live there because there are small and cheap houses. Yes, there is a ghetto. It's near Greektown, and I have had a few rough experiences there. There are many homeless bums and beggers. The "people mover'' is used often for them. It runs through the good and bad part, and I even enjoy the ride. Detroit has great sports stadiums, except the Joe Louis Arena is getting old and rusted. It is right near the great, recently updated Cobo Hall. Many of the old buildings are being re-built, and there is a lot of tagging going around. One bit of tagging around Detroit that I find amusing is the turtle. Also in this bad part is Belle Isle and another old zoo and aquarium that are abandoned. Not to mention the prositutes ;-)

Now for the good side. The Palace of Auburn Hills isn't in Detroit, so I can't include that. The Detroit Zoo is in the good part, and it is really nice with many great updates.

There you have. Detroit in a nutshell.

kjabri

Since Detroit is close to my home, the image I have is realistic. You hear of all the negative yet when you visit, you get a different picture. we don't go into the areas where we know is dangerous, we visit the musuems and areas that still provide one with what Detroit wants to be.

Ebonee

Hate to say it....A Ghost Town!!!

Mopar Muscle Gal

my childhood

Big Joey

Hard working people a city that has it ups and downs like
all city's in the U.S. I started to work in the city when I was 5
helping my dad at r store in 7 mile and r other stores across
Detroit as time went on I grew to enjoy my time there because of all the great people that came in from a hard day at there job and tell me what happened to them at work
I learned that just because a city has a lot of crime and some of the crime happened at most of my stores i learned not all people r like that just like other city's have crime not all people r like that or the whole city is like that Detroit is a great city it has its bad and it has its good u just got to see through the bad insted of the good.

InquisitiveMind

Danger...Honestly, I have seen and been part of alot of dangerous incidents.
I think a town named Detroit AKA Hell.

Bonny

I was born and raised in Detroit and when I hear the word I think Belle Isle, Greektown, Chandler Park, Watts Mozambique, Legends, Timbos, Outkast, City Heat, Allstars, Street Lords, BBQs, death, drugs, gangs.

Most of this stuff you wouldn't know about unless you lived in the inner city. It was a hard knock life but I'm glad I experienced it and wouldn't trade growing up in Detroit for anything. It's made me the bad azz I am today.

Robin S

Burned out houses on The Lodge.

oh_my

The first time I was ever in Detroit was for a meeting. As I was leaving the area, going down I75 South, I passed some factories that were belching NEON yellow crap into the sky. It actually glowed! That image will forever be in my mind.

Iron Man

When I hear the word Detroit I think: Crime , Gangs , DEETROIT BASKETBALL , Ford , Hope , Greektown , Indian Village ,

Terry A

Detroit is a city with issues. Major auto companies that once made the city so vibrant and thriving economically have been downsizing for decades. No real replacement for high paying autoworkers has yet emerged.
Like most major cities, drugs and the subsequent resulting and associated crimes are problematic in many areas.

joyce

Slop
Run down. Very ghetto and a terrible waste of a city.

lisa42088

The city itself is beautiful... I love the old buildings, the DIA, the science museum, and the theatres and clubs are awsome. Of course Greektown, and the cats (lions and tigers). The renaissance building is sweet, and the grafitti is actually really cool.

Of course you also think of drive by shootings, car break ins and theft, running over children, etc.
But seriously, I live in Sterling Heights (7 miles from Detroit)and a 7-11 cashier was shot because he was charging too much for a freaking taquito.
You aren't safe wherever you go.

Josie826

Having been born in Detroit and living there until I was 18 years of age, going to Detroit public schools, having a Detroit Police Officer for a father, I can tell you that it has not left a really great impression in my mind. We moved about an hour outside of Detroit when my dad retired and it was definite culture shock. I finally found out how nice neighborhoods can be, schools can be and how safe cities can be.

Mr Big

home, I live there.

Lisa L

lack of nothing is all i have in my head. I think Detroit is in need of business. like retail, more attraction like places other than casinos. i think a lot more people would venture downtown and bring in what the city need most money and movers and shakers who can put Detroit schools back in order, and bring their city council back down to earth.

and when i think of all this i remember back to October and the tigers being in the world series. the atmosphere was awesome!

Taytay

a bad place.... could be good, its just so full of gang stuff and problems... i would never want to live there.

kelly w

i always think of hart plaza

samtheman

Detroit is a sorry excuse for a city......all they have going for them is the Pistons.

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