Its an old tired bit already, can't you people out there come up with some new material for Detroit. I grew up in the city of Detroit for the first NINETEEN YEARS of my wife w/o a problem personally. Sure, things need to improve, especially with our thug mayor and the "urban mentality" that elected him, but showing bombed out buildings, cars on 22's (like thats not everywhere and going out of style...FAST) and other stereo types is cliche' Detroit is more than just whats inside the border, its the entire area around Detroit and its taking alot more time than I'd like to see to fix things, but come on already. Do any of you know or have lived in Detroit or the metro Detroit area, chime in and be heard

You need to start drinking the coffee with the green label.

Didn't catch the game last night as I don't think TNT/TBS or FSN carried it. So I have no clue what was shown.

I was born and raised for a little more than half my childhood in Sacramento. Mom still lives there in her Victorian in downtown and since I only 2hrs away I vist her ever few months.

Been to Detroit and varying outlying Townships twice. My GF is originally from Detroit with a mjaorioty of her family still there. I believe it was 15-mile road where she spent most of her childhood.

I have no use for Detroit and nor does she. While the suburbs are nice, the city is a giant ghetto. Undersrtood the projects have been torn down and the rebirth of downtown is happening but it's still a vast hood.

My bother is a ME with DCX and he has been faced with sucking it up at his current position because he would rather not move to Detroit to continue his career in Automotive Engineering. Everyone he works with feels the same even the people originally from Detroit and GMI feel the same.

What I'm getting at is that I'm sure perceptions are worse than reality. BUT! those stereotypes about Detroit being hood take forever to break in peoples minds. Isn't the Arena in Auburn Hills like 30-miles outisde of Detroit? Obvisouly it was built there becasue the Detroit inhabitants can not afford a nose-bleed seat so they built in the more affluent suburb.

While Sacrmaento does have it's poorer areas, there are no projects, and the city is much more diverse the urban Detroit.

And we in the bay area look down on Sacramento and the other Central Valley towns as being trashy so go figure.

Why is this man angry?

someone is tripping. and i dont think big rims are going out of style. they always say bigger is better right!!! lol

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Why is this man angry?

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Because we're sick and tired of the Detroit bashing, we've got the same problems as any other big city, but for some reason we are percieved the only one. We had one riot back in 67' pertaining to race and another one in 84' when we won the World Series, sorry SD and thats it. Since then, we've won two NCAA basketball championships (89' and 99'), three Stanley Cups (97', 98' and 02'), THREE NBA championships (89', 90' and 04') and NO RIOTS! but yet we're riot and violence town, total BS I invite any of you when you come to Detroit to visit "Mexicantown" for the best food around, for instance. Its far from perfect, but its getting old, like in 82' when they reported our "black snow", give me a freakin' break