The screw up in Detroit and Michigan in general (IMO) is that we're built on the "auto industry" we never explored other areas until it was "too late"
Take into account the most of the "big 3" auto workers make GOOD money, and then are supposed to take a job that makes 8/9/10 bucks an hour?
Combine that with the fact that they were giving homes away (loan wise) to anyone w/ a pulse, most should NOT have been approved, and imo, that's one of the main reasons our foreclosure rates are so dang high.
As far as Detroit being violent? Any place is violent...I personally LOVE Detroit. It's absolutely beautiful, the architecture is absolutely amazing, and believe it or not? Most people are pretty damn nice. Yes, you get the "thugs, druggies, and "Bad" people. But as all of us have read on here, it doesn't matter where the area is or how rich or poor it is, there are "bad" people" who do "bad things" everywhere in the world.
I've worked in Detroit as well as Played in Detroit, I've only had ONE issue and that was a gas station owner who told me it probably wasn't the best area for a "white girl" to be hanging around. (I was meeting a friend to give him documents for work and it was an "inbetween point")
However, I've never felt threatened, unsafe etc. But I also grew up just a few blocks of 8 mile, (moved "north" a couple months back and I miss Detroit ALOT) and maybe that has something to do with it!
