Detroit

[arguchik]

Here's an article about downtown Detroit and its surroundings. Over the last few months, I've talked to a few people about what Detroit looked like when I was there with glaucon in August. This article describes the situation well. It is incomprehensible to me that it is actually getting worse there but it is. In the greater metropolitan Detroit area, the tension between rich and poor is deep, wide, and intensifying. The automotive industry bailout is just the tip of the iceberg of what that city and her people need.

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[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

Downtown Detroit has been the Pit of Despair for so many decades that it is the closest thing to a DMZ that we have in the US.

I remember going to a Detroit Tigers game, eating at the ONE restaurant that was still there, and leaving on a police-escorted bus.

Scary!

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

It's even scarier for the people who live in that area. Yeah, I guess Tiger Stadium isn't there anymore (they built a new one), but it was definitely not a place to take a leisurely stroll after the game.

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

*shudder*

I lived in DC for years, and there was this great club in the kind of neighborhood that necessitated that you give five bucks to the scary guy so he'd stop the other scary guys from smashing up your car.