Great post! We need more like you to stand up for Detroit. The media and a majority of people on this site dont even live in the city. Maybe they have had a bad experience, maybe they know someone who has had a bad experience or they are simply familiar with the stats. Detroit's reputation has CNN making lists likes this and suburbanites/former Detroiters making all kinds of claims. Truth is, white people left Detroit for mostly racial reasons and/or a single bad experience. Now we live in a city half empty and crime is high. I could go on and on about how we got here and you can look at ruin pics on this site but the fact is most suburbanites are afraid to "cross 8 mile" and don't even know what the its like to live in Detroit.
Mine is similiar to your story PeterhuntPrincess. I will also add that my kids attend great DPS schools and my son walks to his bus [[and in past years, his school) that is 7 blocks away. Yes, even in the dark during winter.
Haters love to jump on that bandwagon and dog Detroit, I just wish more Detroiters/media would defend it.
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