Quote Originally Posted by sumas View Post
Feel free to PM us. Love Detroit, my neighborhood and community. Don't need the tshirts, just to experience Detroit with all its warts and pimples is enough. I see so much life all around. Might not be life the way I view it, sometimes I don't approve of behavior but the vibrancy is there and just simmering.

My personal bitch? I am sick of hearing about downtown/midtown. Neighborhoods are key factors and plain old ignored. 40 yrs of ignored. The vital communities that exist are based on love, sweat, tears, plenty of those... and such amazing folk.
You're right, the neighborhoods are more important than improving "pockets" of the city such as Midtown and Downtown. In fact, when I was small, you didn't have to leave the neighborhoods to shop, unless you were going to Hudsons downtown or other high line stores.
Everything you needed from 'mom and pop" grocery or hardware stores were within distance.