Originally Posted by
Crumbled_pavement
A co-worker was bragging to me about the Riverwalk. I wanted to check it out so I went online to search for information and this is one of the sites that came up. I was intrigued that there was discussion about Detroit online, although that should not have been a surprise. The people on this site are extremely knowledgeable about facets of Detroit I had never even thought of. I'm definitely more educated about the city and its inner workings because of this site.
However, I was shocked to see the enormous amount of disparaging remarks made about Detroit on a site called DetroitYes. It seems you'd get beat down quick if you uttered a bad word about Chicago or Texas or NYC or any other place on the map, but it's open season on Detroit.
Just an observation, there is another site similar to this one called city-data.com. It has forums for all of the major U.S. cities. Out of all the forums I've visited on that site the one on Detroit is by far the most bitter, depressing, angry, and divisive one. With all the problems in NYC, D.C., Chicago, Newark, Cleveland, and many other cities in this nation, no group is more bitter and furious than the group that represents Detroit. It kind of puts in perspective why it is so hard for us to dig our way out of the hole we're in.