After my family moved out of Detroit when I was young, we moved to Warren at 11 and Van Dyke and I went to Center Line schools. I'm not sure if it's still open, but there was a little bar called T Roma's in Center Line that made terrific pizza. It was a neighborhood bar and they didn't over charge you like these yuppy places in Royal Oak and Ferndale. When I was a kid I could say the exact same thing about Ferndale as you did about Center Line.
I guess people are unable to find good little bars unless they are grouped with other bars with over priced food and catchy names. In Center Line I also can't walk from the Dollar Castle to Buffalo Wild Wings either. My main point is the perception of cities. Ferndale has had a higher crime rate then entire decade over Center Line, is losing people faster than Center Line, yet Center Line is talked about as going down hill. Did people suggest Royal Oak was going down hill when the elderly woman was robbed and killed in her house?
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