Yes!!! so many kids and mothers getting killed just in the home,so many young kids beening raped,so many people abuse elderly people... Its juso much crime going in dertroit this year then last year... So many is moving out of detroit. More schools is been close down....ALMBLUMANCE CANT NEVER TO SICK PEOPLE WHO CALL 911 FAST ENOUGH,FIRE TRUCKS CANT NEVER GET 2 EMERGENCY IN TIME.....THE POLICES DONT EVEN COME OUT UNLESS SOMEONE IS MURDER AND STILL IT TAKE THEM TWO HOURS OR MORE TO COME OUT AND EVERYTHING THATS GOING WITH THE POLICE CHIFE OF DETROIT WITH THE SEX SCANDAL AND THEN EVERYTHING THAT GOING ON WITH KILPRATICK...DETROIT IS Bad now i see and heard if you put on job applications that you live or from detroit they throw your applicaton in the trash... Now thats bad.. Now some people is so proud of detroit but detroit dont have nothing to be proud about and that bad.. every city should be proud of something an detroit isnt one of them...people who live there now dont even wanna live there. they are trying and are moving out of detroit now in todays world, people dont even wanna raise there family in detroit because of the stuff thats going on there.SMFH

Detroit has nothing to be proud of??? I beg to differ I'm very proud that we have the TOP HEART SURGERY HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY (HENRY FORD) I AM ALSO PROUD THAT WE HAVE ONE OF THEE BEST COLLEGES FOR DOCTORS IN THE COUNTRY (WAYNE STATE) I AM ALSO PROUD THAT WE HAVE THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUESEUM, SCIENCE CENTER,etc... I AM PROUD THAT THE NEW SCHOOLS ARE REALLY PREPARING THE KIDS FOR COLLEGE, GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL WITH COLLEGE CREDITS...I LOVE THE DIVERSITY OF THE NEW FORMING NEIGHBORHOODS AND NEW CONSTRUCTION... I AM SO PROUD OF THE HONEST LEADERS WHO DON'T JUMP ON THE BANDWAGON, BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE IS CORRUPT. I'M ALSO PROUD WE HOSTED THE SUPERBOWL and MULTIPLE OTHER FUNCTIONS THAT BRUNG MONEY TO THE CITY i.e. THE NASCAR RACE, THE BOAT RACE..... AND I'M DAMN PROUD OF THE ONES WHO STAY HERE AND FIGHT FOR MY CITY!!! ANDDDDDD..... MONROE HAS WHAT??? OH THAT BANGY OUTLET....LMAO.

THEN THEIR ARE THINGS I'M NOT SO PROUD OF.... I CAN'T CONTROL CORRUPT PEOPLE NEITHER CAN ANY OTHER DETROITER, ALL WE CAN DO IS VOTE FOR WHO SEEMS TO BE ON THE UP AND UP AND PRAY ON IT!!!! ALL THE LISTED NO POLICE, NO EMS, NO FIREMEN etc... THEY STOLE THEY MONEY AND SPENT IT, ITS GONE... NOT OUR FAULT! BUT WE STILL HERE... and WE COULD LEAVE TOO!!! SOME OF US CHOOSE TO STAY, FIGHT, and F**KIN' WIN!!!!!

PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE DON'T EVEN WANNA LIVE THERE??? REALLY?? WHO DID YOU POLL? A FEW PEPS YOU KNOW?? BECAUSE TOO MANY THAT I KNOW, THIS WILL ALWAYS BE HOME, EVEN IF THEY MOVED FOR EMPLOYMENT PURPOSES. CRIME IS GONNA BE.... GO TO CHICAGO, COMPTON, AND THE BRONX SAME SHIT DIFFERENT STATE. IS IT WORST??? WE WILL NEVER KNOW.... CHICAGO DOESN'T REPORT THEIR CRIME STATISTICS TO THE F.B.I. TO GET RATED IN MOST DANGEROUS CITIES!!

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You seem to really hate Michigan. Why don't you just leave? [/quote

I don't hate MICHIGAN. I like it, I was actually born in Michigan. I have a problem with how bad Detroit is. I loved Ann Arbor and Waterford was decent except for its proximity to Pontiac (which is almost as bad as Detroit btw). I like Livonia ok enough. Not once in any of my posts did I disparage Michigan itself. It's a hell of a lot better than South Carolina and New Mexico I'll say that much.

I've been in 24 cities off the 100 most crime ridden cities in the country list based off of the neighborhoodscout.com list and none of them came close to the sheer creepiness I felt in Detroit. The sheer number of completely abandoned buildings, the number of empty warehouses and factories, the horribly kept streets... and that's just aesthetic portions. A large number of the people I saw looked as run down as the city itself everyone either angry or in a state of despair.

I tried to find something in Detroit to honestly like but I couldn't do it.

Michigan itself however?

Michigan is NOT Detroit. Michigan has many wonderful areas. I saw some spectacular camping grounds, awesome fishing spots, beautiful hiking trails and some breathtaking views. Just because I dislike ONE CITY why would you accuse me of hating MICHIGAN?

The news polled people and 40% said they planned to leave detroit within the next 5 years.

The city has lost 2/3 of its population: and that is BEFORE factoring in new births.

When I watched the news a few days ago there was a story about a woman who bought a house and had no choice but to live with a squatter who just simply decided she was going to move in while the owner was away. The police did nothing. Anyone that saw that story would think "man there's no way I would want to move to detroit with THAT."

The bronx, compton, and chicago all have RISING populations. Detroit's population has been negative every census for the last 40 years. The census was so low this year that the mayor wants to try to contest the findings and hopes to find 40,000 nonexistent people because it lowers the amount of federal funding Detroit can get access to. If that 40% poll is accurate (which granted is not likely because a lot of people say they are going to move but never do) the population would fall to under 500,000 dropping it from the list of 50 largest cities in the country.

Proud of your schools? Detroit is ranked among the lowest in the nation. With a 70% less than high-school grad literacy rate amongst detroit I would think that your schools would be amongst the things you WOULDN'T try to claim pride for.

The Henry Ford hospital comment is genuine and something that is a huge boon to Detroit. Wayne state's medical campus is also something to be proud of. But there's so much bad that outweighs the good. I've been in the bronx, I've been in chicago and I didn't get the same feeling that I did when going through detroit.

I saw murders and robberies on the news when I lived near those places yes, but nothing on the sheer scale that detroit has. And the crime statistics for detroit are so far beyond any other city that it outshines in every dreadful category.

With a crime rate set at 15-16 times the national average it's the highest in the nation.

Op you made this thread about how bad Detroit is and go in someone else thread defending Michigan...you do know Detroit is part and a big part of Michigan dont you?