Detroit is home to the least attractive people...?

**Vic01** · December-02-14, 05:06 AM

Bet that got your attention! Better take the survey and turn it around...

Beautiful people are everywhere but according to a Travel + Leisure magazine survey, the exception is Detroit.

The magazine is conducting a survey to find America's favorite places. In the survey, users can rank their city's culture, people, food, etc. One of the survey results is which cities are home to the most attractive and the least attractive people.

Detroit pulled in rank as the least attractive city in the U.S. Yes, we topped that list at Number One.

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/27...ttractive-city

**sumas** · December-02-14, 06:35 AM

Not in the game but I see plenty of eye candy.

**mikeg19** · December-02-14, 07:33 AM

I'm sure you could fill the top ten least attractive cities list with cities from Mississippi alone, but I digress. Of course Miami, New York, L.A, etc are where the most beautiful people congregate. That's where all the waiter, I mean modeling, gigs are at.....

**nain rouge** · December-02-14, 08:51 AM

I think it's a function of environment. When it's 20 degrees in the evening and the only places to go are dimly lit bars or Walmart, you get into the habit of not caring about what you look like. Sweatpants are a style in Detroit, and you know it's true.

**Dan Wesson** · December-02-14, 09:05 AM

I don't know about Detroit alone as the top of the heap of unattractive people. I have noticed over the years that the average american has been dressing worse and worse. Throw in dunlop disease and wide, extra wide fannies in sweats.

Cheese and Rice folks what's up with that?

**Hermod** · December-02-14, 09:26 AM

For many years, Nordstrom was a Pacific NW department store. They were building a new mall called Galleria in northern Virginia and got the president of Nordstrom to come look at the area with a view to being an anchor store in the new mall. As a part of the tour, he was taken through the existing Tyson's Corners Mall. He was amazed at how the women shopping were so well dressed at 10:30-11:00 in the morning. He didn't see any woman with a scarf and curlers. Then and there, he said to skip on the proposed galleria and made a contract with the Tyson's Corners Mall to build a new wing with Nordstrom's first east coast store as an anchor.

**jackie5275** · December-02-14, 10:06 AM

At least now I know for a fact that I am not alone in my ugliness.

**Shai_Hulud** · December-02-14, 10:25 AM

I don't know about dead last... but yes, pickings are slim. Especially if you're 25-35, because that age range is, rightfully, fleeing.

Cold weather, the usual midwest fatness, and runaway poverty causing things like orthodontia to slip off the priority list...

I need to get the hell out of here.

**innercitydoc** · December-02-14, 10:45 AM

Attractive by whose standards? It's obvious these surveys are a reflection of mainstream American standards of beauty. And Detroit being primarily African American doesn't help that perception.

Although I agree obesity rates are higher here I would say that there are plenty of attractive women in the region. Compared to the other cities at the top of least attractive, most of which I have traveled, there is more of an emphasis on fashion, hair, makeup, etc.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder though..

**Lowell** · December-02-14, 10:53 AM

Maybe my all time favorite Detroit quote....

"Most Cities Get By On Their Good Looks. Detroit Has To Work For A Living."

Elmore Leonard.

**nain rouge** · December-02-14, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by innercitydoc

Compared to the other cities at the top of least attractive, most of which I have traveled, there is more of an emphasis on fashion, hair, makeup, etc.

You must never have lived in the east side suburbs. There, dressing up is VS's PINK sweatpants with boots. For men, a brand name hoodie will suffice for any occasion.

When I lived in the Hazel Park/Madison Heights area [[OAKLAND COUNTY, people), it was a big deal that I didn't wear t-shirts 99% of the time. I was like the height of high fashion.

**bailey** · December-02-14, 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by Shai_Hulud

I don't know about dead last... but yes, pickings are slim. Especially if you're 25-35, because that age range is, rightfully, fleeing.

Cold weather, the usual midwest fatness, and runaway poverty causing things like orthodontia to slip off the priority list...

I need to get the hell out of here.

I do quite a bit of travel for work. Has nothing to do with cold weather. I was in Stockholm for a while..half the year is cold and dark yet everyone is freaking gorgeous and not only that, really nice. When I spend a little time away from here [[and the midwest in general) and come back it's really sort of shocking. It may just be a bit of familiarity breeding contempt, but it really is amazing how insanely fat, slobby, and generally unpleasant the average person is around here. It's almost toxic. I agree that it's probably not "dead last" but really people... get some effing exercise, take off the pajama pants and hoodie, shower, put down the fork, put down the 72oz Mountain Dew, and smile once in a while.

**nain rouge** · December-02-14, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by bailey

I do quite a bit of travel for work. Has nothing to do with cold weather. I was in Stockholm for a while..half the year is cold and dark yet everyone is freaking gorgeous and not only that, really nice.

Yep. A couple visits to the Twin Cities really ruined Metro Detroit for me. Why can't WE live like that?

**bailey** · December-02-14, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by nain rouge

Yep. A couple visits to the Twin Cities really ruined Metro Detroit for me. Why can't WE live like that?[/COLOR]

Need to import more Swedes.

**Scottathew** · December-02-14, 12:00 PM

Yawn. Just another boring "survey" that has no actual relevance to real life.

**Lowell** · December-02-14, 12:14 PM

A while back someone posted a picture of me in the Michigan Theater parking lot. My comment: What a deal! Two Fabulous Ruins of Detroit in one picture.

**sumas** · December-02-14, 01:28 PM

The only other comment I have is many Detroiters are obese to a great degree. I have no issues with weight and to a degree its inherited. Bridge cards at party stores or the gas station contribute. Its the kids I worry about, hardly a child around here is the right weigh, A bag of chips and a mountain dew is not a breakfast.

Our own grown children are not slim but that is heritage. They both wish they got my husbands slim genes. Me, I go to a doctors office and always get complimented that my weight. height. age are almost perfect. They must see an awful lot of really fat people.

Still and all plenty of eye candy around here.

**nain rouge** · December-02-14, 01:33 PM

Dan Gilbert is trying to fix the human ugliness of Detroit, but unlike with buildings, he can't go this one completely alone. Folks, let's make our New Year's resolution to look this slick all the time. If you want to attract the best jobs you have to dress for the best jobs.

**ct_alum** · December-02-14, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by Shai_Hulud

I don't know about dead last... but yes, pickings are slim. Especially if you're 25-35, because that age range is, rightfully, fleeing.

Cold weather, the usual midwest fatness, and runaway poverty causing things like orthodontia to slip off the priority list...

I need to get the hell out of here.

Agreed - You do need to get the hell out of here and not come back. Be perfectly happy to escort you with lights and siren if it will get you out of here sooner.

**Shai_Hulud** · December-02-14, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by ct_alum

Agreed - You do need to get the hell out of here and not come back. Be perfectly happy to escort you with lights and siren if it will get you out of here sooner.

I can get you the number of a personal trainer and a good orthodontist if that will make you feel better.

**Hypestyles** · December-02-14, 02:56 PM

more urban fashion stores are needed downtown.

**313WX** · December-02-14, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by nain rouge

I think it's a function of environment. When it's 20 degrees in the evening and the only places to go are dimly lit bars or Walmart, you get into the habit of not caring about what you look like. Sweatpants are a style in Detroit, and you know it's true.

That's part of the reason.

Also, Detroit is a blue collar town. So, collectively, people here tend to be rough around the edges and don't feel they have to go around looking like fashion models or impress anyone with their looks.

**Ray1936** · December-02-14, 05:51 PM

Well, after watching a half-dozen episodes of "Hard Core Pawn", I'd be inclined to say the survey was accurate.

**Honky Tonk** · December-02-14, 06:24 PM

Detroit is home to the least attractive people...?

HEY! I resemble that remark!

**401don** · December-02-14, 07:35 PM

The dressing down thing has gone on unchecked for a few decades now. On the one hand I like that I can walk into most any restaurant in jeans and a t-shirt, but on the other hand I kind of miss the fact that women used to wear a skirt to dinner at a nice, casual restaurant.