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Community => The Lounge => Topic started by: Alex on Sunday, September 12, 2010, 02:13:28 AM
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Detroit, Michigan
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As most of you know, I live about 30 minutes from Detroit. Downtown Detroit is beautiful. There is no trash, nice fountains, and nice people. you can walk around the city and always find great places to go. Downtown Detroit is very nice, but unfortunately that is where nice ends in Detroit.
If you dropped someone off in downtown Detroit who has never been there, they wouldn't know how bad it gets after downtown.
Downtown Detroit
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As most of you know, and commonly joke about, Detroit is mostly a big shit hole. But if you have never seen it in person, you don't know how bad it really is. I had to drive through northeast Detroit on my way to Gross Point and it is a very sad sight, even from the highway. It completely ruined my day. I would love to go and take pictures myself, but the only concern I have is the obvious security issue. Unless I have a gun, I'm not walking around Detroit's east side. So I settled for some pictures from google.
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It is quite sad seeing all of the abandoned buildings and factories that at one point, looked fine and had a ton of workers in them.
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A lot of the areas in Detroit look like they would belong in Pripyat.
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My grandpa grew up in Detroit and he always talks about how nice it used to be. It is just sad to think about how far the city fell and how bad it actually is now. Just seeing the buildings is enough for you to feel uncomfortable. I don't know why I posted this, I just felt like I should.
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I saw a good bit of it on "Rodger & Me" by Michael Moore. I'm sure I didn't see it all and I'm sure it's gotten worse. Definitely sad.
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OMG
Those pictures of east detroit are hot! There's nothing like that around here in Chicago.
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Wow, honestly I would kill to go there and take photos, I love the look of that area alot. Its sad yeah but I can't help see the amazing photos that could come out of that.
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Dont need a gun here :)
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I'm very close to Detoilet, infact my woman is instructed not to go past Telegraph without me.
Those images are not even the half of it, you should see the hoods...thats what happens when you don't care about the city you live in.
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I'm very close to Detoilet, infact my woman is instructed not to go past Telegraph without me.
Those images are not even the half of it, you should see the hoods...thats what happens when you don't care about the city you live in.
I have seen them. I've been through just about every part of Detroit. I just pulled those images off of google images because I didn't want to take my own pictures.
what city do you live in?
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I'm in redford. Lived here since 1976 or so. We lived near Ford RD. and Wyoming. Then my Parents moved because of obvious reasons. I own my parents old house. Tore it down and now in the process of rebuilding it from the foundation up.
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I live in Westland. I always takes trips into Detroit for Red Wings and Tiger games. It looks bad even from the highway.
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One of these days Ill swing by there and take killa and vvaff to dodge bullets and snap pictures.
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Blue you're in Chicago right? Whereabouts exactly?
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I've moved around quite a bit but put Skokie into google maps. It should be northwest of downtown Chicago.
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Call me weird but I always think of Chicago as a state. It's one of the few that people refer to and it just seems that way. I have to think about it and then realize it's a city in a state =\
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Ya the thing with Chicago people is they think there's Chicago and then Illinois. There's a lot of people who get angry if you refer to them being in the state or from Illinois. They will say they're from Chicago. I guess that's the way it is.
I say I'm from Chicago lol. So point proven :D
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I know where Skokie is, but I've never been there. Arlington Heights/Buffalo Grove is usually the furthest south I go. I'm more familiar with say, Gurnee, Barrington, or Mundelein.
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Haha, furthest north I ever really go is Kenosha. For me Gurnee = Six Flags. But I frequent around Arlington Height/Buffalo Grove sometimes. Friggin rich people there.
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I live in Kenosha ;)
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And yeah they're rich cuz they're Jewish. :-X
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Hahahahaha