Leaving East English Village with sadness and affection

[SWMAP]

What is the problem? Lack of regional thinking -that's the problem???

My good friend and neighbor over here in SW Detroit picked up her family and moved when a random bullet tore into her living room when her daughter was watching television just feet away.

I think appetites for crime and hatred of peace and order are the immediate problems. Good people leave when their children are risked.

[Detroitnerd]

What is the problem? Lack of regional thinking -that's the problem???

My good friend and neighbor over here in SW Detroit picked up her family and moved when a random bullet tore into her living room when her daughter was watching television just feet away.

I think appetites for crime and hatred of peace and order are the immediate problems. Good people leave when their children are risked.

There's the close-up view, sure. There you have a good, honest description of the problem facing the individual. "Zooming out" is optional -- but if the region is to survive, it is essential.

[EASTSIDE CAT 67-83]

Good people leave when their children are risked.

As much as I love or loved the city, I would never risk my wife or daughters to its mean streets and perverted urban existence, to them it will always be the place where Daddy grew up. Don't think me naive, I understand there is bad in all heavily populated urban environments but the ravenous spread of cancer in Detroit's once viable neighborhoods over the last 20 years is in my opinion a sigularly unique experience. This man storys only a stones throw from GP is telling.