Crap clings to crap

Livonia is just as bad

I saw a news cast a couple weeks ago stating the worst statistic I have ever seen for a city: 70% lower than 12th grade literacy rate.

That is the most horrible statistic for any major city in the country.

The reporters who ran this story, starting a year ago rehashed this information from an old report. The survey was based on a National Survey from 1993 of 26,000 people. When The National Adult Literacy Survey did this study they warned you to not use the information for a locale statistics as it was based on a County level. In 2009 the Wayne County illiteracy rate was at 12%. The only way Detroit could be at 70% while the County is at 12%, there would be no illiteracy no where in Wayne County other than Detroit, and thats impossible. Yes illiteracy does exist in Detroit, as it does in many other places as well.

For those of you who don't live here, I would like to let you know majority of the crime that goes on in this city is due to the lifestyle these people lead. Most times these things aren't random, it's drug dealers killing one another, people involving themselves in criminal behavior and activity, and hanging with those type of people. Does it look bad in certain areas, sure!! If the horrible city leaders stop stealing the money and misuse of the funds, probably wouldn't look so bad. And the horrible part is they are all bad, hasn't really mattered who we voted in. ALL BAD!!!!

Yes, crime is ridiculous!!! And thanks to media, they will keep you informed on the bad, rarely highlighting any good. I appreciate knowing though, I will admit, but DETROIT MOST DANGEROUS CITY???? Not hardly, The F.B.I are the one's who rank the statistics of "dangerous cities" in which they collect information reported to them from that city. The F.B.I advises you not to use their list because its always incomplete waiting for reports to come in. The F.B.I does not involve themselves with every case so they depend on the city to report what they don't know. It is not manditory that you report all cases either. As a matter of fact Chicago doesn't report at all!!!!

So again, knowing the truth about these statistics and how they work is very important.

I've done enough research into the matter to understand I do not want to live there. I've been, I've seen, I left and don't want to return. The whole place, even the nice parts, has this pathetic look. Compared to Chicago or NYC the place feels... dead. The atmosphere is terrible and the air left a bad taste in my mouth.

Compared to Chicago or NYC the place feels dead???.... I guess so, if your thinking "The good parts of NYC and Chicago" I know your not standing in the middle of the Cabrini Greens or Yonkers Projects with that thought.. I appreciate the power of choice and opinion every major city has it's good parts and bad parts.... If you don't like, you have the right idea.... Don't live there. I was merely commenting on the false statistics...

I Agree 100%, A funky old town... with our share of problems.... But what lies beneath all of the bad is, A diamond in the rough! This city has so much to offer depending upon your interests (please beware of the shopping, Troy is the greatest)... This is not a city for wimps!!

But sorry to inform you, a lot of Caucasian people are taking some of this city back!! Its a neighborhood called "COMMON WEALTH DISTRICT" right in the heart of the ghetto, Wayne State Area and Downtown as well.... I remember these places were crack paradise, now its mostly white homeowners/occupants.

They walk at night with their children and pets, shop etc, they are NOT afraid, they live amongst all the good and the bad in this city... You want to know why they're moving back to Detroit???? BECAUSE THEY AIN'T NO WIMPS, and they care!!! it's just as much their city as mines...... Property is cheap, for immaculate homes, that just needed a little TLC, and they bought'em right up!!!!!!

If you haven't spent much time here, you can't judge... and if you let this city intimidate you, along with the media's help... you're a WIMP!!!

<----- and this emoticon probably scares you too... LMAO.

I spent some good time in the city, including Highland Park when I was with my ex. Nothing happened to me, but usually people were staring me down, and it made me feel pretty unsettled. Do bad things happen in the city? Well I've heard stories, like this guy who got beaten nearly to death by a bunch of people in a coney island, and dragged outside bleeding all over the place. So I suppose so. Just keep to yourself, don't stare people down, don't say the wrong thing, and you'll be okay.

But on the flip side, there's good to be found in the city if you look for it. Not everyone that lives there is bad. Most of the Motown artists in the 60s grew up in Detroit, and Michael Jackson started his career there. America may have been founded on the east coast, but the history of the city shaped American culture in the early 20th century. So this city deserves much more respect than it's given.

Apologize for the affront. I just hate when people drive through a few times or read/hear about it and base their opinions off that ^

I can't let ppl just dog my city like it's nth. It's not just people in the city that makes it bad. It's also those that bring their crap to the city. Dumping their trash and their dead bodies in Detroit so the citizens can take the fall for it. Don't get me wrong it ain't the best place to live if you can't handle it. But this city has made ppl like myself a survivor, and I wouldn't change where I live at for the world.

Its funny how when things are good everybody is,"oh I'm from Detroit". But the first sign of trouble everybody run. And abandon my city like its nth.

Nope.
I take the greyhound there from Muskegon at least once a month.
What I do there, though...

But in the history of CITIES do you think this is the first time this has happened? Uhhhhhh NO, at one point Harlem, NY was a ghost town until Magic Johnson came in and bought up all the vacant property and changed them into very expensive brownstones and Starbucks. All it would take is for someone to come in and take a chance and invest in this city. And to my acknowledgements Magic Johnson has already started investing in this city by buying the old State Fair property.

My point is it's ghost towns in many other states as well, such as Ohio, maybe not a Metropolis city, but still took a huge hit like Detroit. When they took thousands of manufacturing jobs away, when this is a manufacturing CITY, that is when a large part of the population left, for work. Not because they hated this city.

I look at it like this, it could happen to "THE BEST OF US". Yep even us Detroiter's. And you wanna know what? WE STILL HERE AND WE'RE NOT GOING NO WHERE TIL' THEY CUT OFF THE LAST LIGHT!!!! I MY CITY!!!!