Another cliche feel-good article about Detroit.

[Scottathew]

I'm proud to feel good about the great things happening in Detroit. Progress is happening. The progress is perfect. Progress will take years and decades, but it's progress.

Bring on the cliche feel-good articles!

[English]

I'm proud to feel good about the great things happening in Detroit. Progress is happening. The progress is perfect. Progress will take years and decades, but it's progress.

Bring on the cliche feel-good articles!

Thank you. In the ghettohoods, we were saying "the D" and "the 313" in the 1990s.

Is this an easy city to live in? No. Are things perfect? No. Are they even the way they were in the early 1960s or before? Of course not.

But the mindset change is super important. That's why previous efforts to turn the city around failed. No one believed the 1980s efforts -- "stand up and tell 'em you're from Detroit?" No one north of 8 Mile or west of Telegraph was trying to do ANYTHING like that... and many of us city dwellers were good on that score, too. Folks wanted to be from anywhere but here.

Today, you've got an entire generation of folks in this metro who are proud to be from Detroit... even if they grew up nearly an hour north or an hour west. What's more, the young, vibrant transplants, artists, entrepreneurs, and young professionals, consider themselves more Detroit than some of us whose families have lived within the city limits for several generations.

Things are changing. The young people are changing it. No one my age can remember the riots, and my cohort is firmly in our mid-30s. So... Detroit, stand up!

[Melocoton]

Thank you. In the ghettohoods, we were saying "the D" and "the 313" in the 1990s.!

...which is why I think it's corny when local Chevy dealers or the Detroit Tourism Bureau say it.

[DetroitPole]

...which is why I think it's corny when local Chevy dealers or the Detroit Tourism Bureau say it.

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I'm so sick of the feel-good bullshit too. Attitudes are changing - that is a good thing, in a general sense. But ultimately I don't give much of a flying you-know-what that some soccer moms in Novi are now saying they love/live in[[through some strange logic) "the D" because it doesn't really do anything. We have serious problems, incredibly serious problems here that show no sign of abating. I really do appreciate the vibrancy downtown has on game/event nights and the selection of businesses there but the rest of the city [[where most of us live) has absolutely gone to hell. Again, people claiming love for the D from afar doesn't help my block, or those of most, at all. We need more than somebody's PMA at this point.

It's easy to love Detroit when you treat it like a one night stand - mess around for the evening, do all the fun stuff, then cruise back home. But when you're here and you're married to it, well, let's say it's easier to fall in love than to stay in love.

[313WX]

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I'm so sick of the feel-good bullshit too. Attitudes are changing - that is a good thing, in a general sense. But ultimately I don't give much of a flying you-know-what that some soccer moms in Novi are now saying they love/live in[[through some strange logic) "the D" because it doesn't really do anything. We have serious problems, incredibly serious problems here that show no sign of abating. I really do appreciate the vibrancy downtown has on game/event nights and the selection of businesses there but the rest of the city [[where most of us live) has absolutely gone to hell. Again, people claiming love for the D from afar doesn't help my block, or those of most, at all. We need more than somebody's PMA at this point.

It's easy to love Detroit when you treat it like a one night stand - mess around for the evening, do all the fun stuff, then cruise back home. But when you're here and you're married to it, well, let's say it's easier to fall in love than to stay in love.

Great post, I completely agree.

I doubt the positive/rah-rah/feel good attitude lasts much longer though. I highly suspect if the Tigers or Lions had a crappy season none of these positive articles would exist. The same thing happened in 1980, 1984, 1990-1991 and 2005-2006 [[And we see where that got us)

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...well you get it.

[Thames]

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I'm so sick of the feel-good bullshit too. Attitudes are changing - that is a good thing, in a general sense. But ultimately I don't give much of a flying you-know-what that some soccer moms in Novi are now saying they love/live in[[through some strange logic) "the D" because it doesn't really do anything. We have serious problems, incredibly serious problems here that show no sign of abating. I really do appreciate the vibrancy downtown has on game/event nights and the selection of businesses there but the rest of the city [[where most of us live) has absolutely gone to hell. Again, people claiming love for the D from afar doesn't help my block, or those of most, at all. We need more than somebody's PMA at this point.

It's easy to love Detroit when you treat it like a one night stand - mess around for the evening, do all the fun stuff, then cruise back home. But when you're here and you're married to it, well, let's say it's easier to fall in love than to stay in love.

Some would argue that downtown went to hell too. But downtown is on it's way back. That means [[hopefully) the neighborhoods aren't far behind.

[canuck]

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I'm so sick of the feel-good bullshit too. Attitudes are changing - that is a good thing, in a general sense. But ultimately I don't give much of a flying you-know-what that some soccer moms in Novi are now saying they love/live in[[through some strange logic) "the D" because it doesn't really do anything. We have serious problems, incredibly serious problems here that show no sign of abating. I really do appreciate the vibrancy downtown has on game/event nights and the selection of businesses there but the rest of the city [[where most of us live) has absolutely gone to hell. Again, people claiming love for the D from afar doesn't help my block, or those of most, at all. We need more than somebody's PMA at this point.

It's easy to love Detroit when you treat it like a one night stand - mess around for the evening, do all the fun stuff, then cruise back home. But when you're here and you're married to it, well, let's say it's easier to fall in love than to stay in love.

I always get a kick out of your "my bullshit meter is on at high posts" DetroitPole. But people always need to show affection for their town in diminutives. I only disagree with the small d myself.

[softailrider]

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I'm so sick of the feel-good bullshit too. Attitudes are changing - that is a good thing, in a general sense. But ultimately I don't give much of a flying you-know-what that some soccer moms in Novi are now saying they love/live in[[through some strange logic) "the D" because it doesn't really do anything. We have serious problems, incredibly serious problems here that show no sign of abating. I really do appreciate the vibrancy downtown has on game/event nights and the selection of businesses there but the rest of the city [[where most of us live) has absolutely gone to hell. Again, people claiming love for the D from afar doesn't help my block, or those of most, at all. We need more than somebody's PMA at this point.

It's easy to love Detroit when you treat it like a one night stand - mess around for the evening, do all the fun stuff, then cruise back home. But when you're here and you're married to it, well, let's say it's easier to fall in love than to stay in love.

All of the above, very true. Vast majority of the neighborhoods are a complete and absolute disgrace.

[Detroitej72]

I'm proud to feel good about the great things happening in Detroit. Progress is happening. The progress is perfect. Progress will take years and decades, but it's progress.

Bring on the cliche feel-good articles!

I agree. Give me the feel good articles any day over the old, tired negative crap we've been used to for the last 30 years.