Coming to America (possibly)

[yoda313]

I am sure you can find seedy parts of any major city over 300 years old, Can you say the majority of Detroit looks like that?

Hello,

No. It's doing much better. It's not PERFECT but no place is

It's having a much better time these days Plenty of entertainment centers and new business centers (like Compuware ).

Detroit has to have one of the worst raps out there. And it's a shame too. There's plenty to do like the DSO (detroit symphony orchestra), Lions, Tigers, Wings (next year??????), the DIA, and etc. etc.. etc....

Kevin

[Tommyknocker]

Dontcha just loves the way Yoda comes in, light saber blazing, kicking ass and taking names?

[yoda313]

Dontcha just loves the way Yoda comes in, light saber blazing, kicking ass and taking names?

Hello,



Hey we midwesterners have to stick together

I went to Wayne State and was downtown for a couple of years. It was ok. There were areas you'd wish could be renovated but all in all it's ok.

Plenty of attractions like the Auto Show and other events too......

Kevin

(where can I sign up for that department of tourism job????? )

[Guest]

I am sure you can find seedy parts of any major city over 300 years old, Can you say the majority of Detroit looks like that?

As for the second largest city(incorporated area) in the US,what % do you think is not a shit hole? Fox town,extreme downtown(including Greektown) maybe Chicago Blvd(going to crap) those are tiny areas.

[Tommyknocker]

Stay in Burma then. I still love my Motown. One of the reasons I joined the military was to help keep it free, along with the rest of America.

[Guest]

Stay in Burma then. I still love my Motown. One of the reasons I joined the military was to help keep it free, along with the rest of America.

I dont mind it.Coming up and screwing around there really helps you out anywhere you go(except maybe Bogata).I went to early school at Senator Faxton's "Detroit City School" on Livernois.

Most recent adventure-driving up Woodward after a xmas party(2001) at the DIA.2 miles with a Desert Eagle pointed at my ass by the driver next to me.Said I cut him off when we were stopped at a light.I apologized,but was in the crosshairs for another mile.I didnt say I didnt like it,but you have to recognize. Detriot is one big crack house.Don't try to talk it up.Mayor Young's renaissance was a blank.

[Tommyknocker]

As you wish. This is getting us nowhere. If what you said is true, and with your attitude, I'm starting to wish Mr. Desert Eagle had pulled the trigger. One less Detroit naysayer with internet access to bad mouth us.

[Guest]

As you wish. This is getting us nowhere. If what you said is true, and with your attitude, I'm starting to wish Mr. Desert Eagle had pulled the trigger. One less Detroit naysayer with internet access to bad mouth us.

So u think Detoit is a cosmopolitan mecca?

[Tommyknocker]

I think it's my home. I grew up there. I am not about to suggest a man from Great Britain duck and cover when he goes there, when he can have the time of his life if he ust has the right attitude.

[Guest]

If you love it so much,how come youre an ex-pat?And just because it is your home doesnt make it nice.

[Tommyknocker]

If you love it so much,how come youre an ex-pat?And just because it is your home doesnt make it nice.

I am here because I was ordered here. And I'll reman here until I am ordered somewhere else. Our country thinks I defend it best from here. And it was nice for me growing up in Detroit. I won't subscribe to your feelings about the city just because you think you should. I've been around world, and I still get homesick.

[ChrisX]

If you want to drive to Detroit and this would take you a long time to get there, all day and perhaps +12 hours.

Warren to Detroit???????????

Detroit to Niagara Falls isn't even this far, just cut through Ontario.

Not from Warren to Detroit.

It is from NYC to Detroit is a as long drive and this what I am staying.

ChrisX

[ChrisX]

Well, I grew up in Detroit. I don't think your brother and I are talking about the same city. Now you can listen to hearsay, or direct testimony. The choice is yours.

You say my brother and he wasn't even there at Detroit and the fact who was there is my father and he was there on business so long time ago.

Tommyknocker, you may have grew up there and love Detroit.

Not everyone agrees with you and you don't have to agree with me on your city.

Someone's experience at Detroit can't lie.

ChrisX

[Tommyknocker]

Let's see, we have your father who would never wants to go back. Then we have millions of Detroiters who never want to leave, (including me). Solve for x and show all work. (No credit is given for a wrong answer).

[Guest]

Yeah Tommy,people just seem to love our fair city.edit-Apparently we dont have millions.

Detroit leads in loss of residents

Black families make up most of 40,000 who've left since '00

By George Hunter / The Detroit News

Detroit is losing more residents than any other large city in the country, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

The city's population has dropped since 2000 from 951,270 to 911,402 -- about 4 percent -- the biggest loss of any U.S. city with 100,000 or more residents.

Meanwhile, some outlying suburbs have seen large population increases during the same period.

Middle-class African American families make up the largest percentage of those leaving Detroit, because they believe the city is not doing enough to improve services and residential areas, said Kurt Metzger, research director for the Center for Urban Studies at Wayne State University.

“These families are leaving because the city isn't addressing the needs of the neighborhoods,” Metzger said. “Neighborhood issues, like improving lighting and police services, aren't as sexy as the Super Bowl or new stadiums.”

But Detroit leaders insist they have implemented strategies to keep citizens.

“When (Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick) took office, he instituted the `Kids, Cops, Clean' program (which aims to improve public safety, and community-police relations),” Kilpatrick spokesman Howard Hughey said.

Metzger said that African-American families leaving the city are moving throughout Metro Detroit, where in the past they had mostly moved into southern Oakland County.

Detroit's situation stands in contrast to the population booms that have turned sleepy suburbs in Arizona and Nevada into big cities.

Gilbert, Ariz., in the thriving Phoenix metropolitan area, grew the most, surging 32 percent to 145,000. Two Las Vegas suburbs, Henderson and North Las Vegas, were next, each growing at least 22 percent.

Detroit’s 4.2 percent population decline tied with Cincinnati for the second-largest percentage drop. St. Louis’ 4.6 percent decline was the largest and dropped that city’s population to 332,000.

While warm climates lure people South and West, the availability of jobs, especially in the service industry and in non-unionized businesses, is another attraction, Metzger said.

“What’s happening is that the businesses are pulling in the people,” Metzger says.

Metzger and Rollin Stanley, director of planning and urban design for St. Louis, each questioned the accuracy of the census estimates and said the numbers may not account for recent economic development. Stanley cited building permits since 2000 for 9,000 new units and rehabilitations that the city hopes will add over 10,000 to its population by next year.

[Doramius]

So the city's cleaning up I see. Maybe it'll be time to move back in a few years.

[ChrisX]

Yeah Tommy,people just seem to love our fair city.edit-Apparently we dont have millions.

Detroit leads in loss of residents

Black families make up most of 40,000 who've left since '00

By George Hunter / The Detroit News

Detroit is losing more residents than any other large city in the country, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

The city's population has dropped since 2000 from 951,270 to 911,402 -- about 4 percent -- the biggest loss of any U.S. city with 100,000 or more residents.

Meanwhile, some outlying suburbs have seen large population increases during the same period.

Middle-class African American families make up the largest percentage of those leaving Detroit, because they believe the city is not doing enough to improve services and residential areas, said Kurt Metzger, research director for the Center for Urban Studies at Wayne State University.

“These families are leaving because the city isn't addressing the needs of the neighborhoods,” Metzger said. “Neighborhood issues, like improving lighting and police services, aren't as sexy as the Super Bowl or new stadiums.”

But Detroit leaders insist they have implemented strategies to keep citizens.

“When (Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick) took office, he instituted the `Kids, Cops, Clean' program (which aims to improve public safety, and community-police relations),” Kilpatrick spokesman Howard Hughey said.

Metzger said that African-American families leaving the city are moving throughout Metro Detroit, where in the past they had mostly moved into southern Oakland County.

Detroit's situation stands in contrast to the population booms that have turned sleepy suburbs in Arizona and Nevada into big cities.

Gilbert, Ariz., in the thriving Phoenix metropolitan area, grew the most, surging 32 percent to 145,000. Two Las Vegas suburbs, Henderson and North Las Vegas, were next, each growing at least 22 percent.

Detroit’s 4.2 percent population decline tied with Cincinnati for the second-largest percentage drop. St. Louis’ 4.6 percent decline was the largest and dropped that city’s population to 332,000.

While warm climates lure people South and West, the availability of jobs, especially in the service industry and in non-unionized businesses, is another attraction, Metzger said.

“What’s happening is that the businesses are pulling in the people,” Metzger says.

Metzger and Rollin Stanley, director of planning and urban design for St. Louis, each questioned the accuracy of the census estimates and said the numbers may not account for recent economic development. Stanley cited building permits since 2000 for 9,000 new units and rehabilitations that the city hopes will add over 10,000 to its population by next year.

I just checked out Detroit in MS Encarta and this is what the information says:

The population of Detroit has halved now since 1957 and still losing more people there.

The population was once at 1,850,000 at the peak of 1957.

A decline industrial motor city and there is nothing much in Detroit as far as dwindling jobs are concerned.

It is now a deteriorating, rundown place to be.

I hope for improvements in the future there and a big clean up of the city and progress.

The story here in Sydney is the opposite and growing too fast by adding 1,000 new citizens per day.

ChrisX

[Guest]

Not for nothing,the D has some bomb ass crack.You betta recognize!

[Doramius]

Not for nothing,the D has some bomb ass crack.You betta recognize!

Bootylicious Ghett-O a**! [Sir-Mix-Alot 'Big Butts' plays in the background]