Maybe most people just don't share your preferences, or biases. You could have just bought the entire Fisher Building for less than some homes in Park Slope.
I'm well acquainted with Park Slope, and not aware of any "unruly crowds", "bright signage" or "reeking of grease". And the neighborhood is one of the hottest urban neighborhoods on the planet, so definitely not on a "downward spiral". The most expensive real estate in the Midwest is dirt cheap compared to Park Slope.
This is the problem with DYes boosters. They're living in fantasyland. The idea that Park Slope, where a [[not particularly large) home that needs work sold for 13 million just this week, is a "grease pit" on a "downward spiral", while Detroit is some booming mecca of creatives, is so out of whack with reality that it's just absurd.
If Midtown Detroit had 5% of Park Slope's appeal people on DYes would be throwing a ticker tape parade. Someone who likes Park Slope isn't going to move to Detroit; they are about as similar as Park Slope and Montevideo.
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