Quote Originally Posted by Retroit View Post
Well, I lived in Queens for a while, and I unequivocally HATED it. Way too congested. Way too claustrophobic. Too noisy. Quite run down and dirty. Had to rely on public transportation. I would bet that most superbanites of Detroit would find living there a steep decline in quality of life. True, maybe for a young person out to see the world, it may be a change of pace for awhile. But they'll get sick of it.
This is interesting. Where in Queens did you live? With the exception of Staten Island [[which doesn't really count), Queens is probably the borough of NYC that most resembles Metro Detroit. And that's because a lot of it was built to be more suburban/car-oriented.