Quote Originally Posted by Hypestyles View Post
thanks for throwing entire neighborhoods under a bus.

Well, to be fair, the neighborhoods are what they are, and aren't made any worse by somebody calling them out. The neighborhoods to the north and west of campus are pretty nice, as Detroit neighborhoods go, but the commercial development pretty nearly completely ignores the University; there aren't student-focused businesses at all, which is very unusual for a decent-size college campus in the middle of a city. The neighborhoods to the south and southeast of campus are not particularly nice at all, again compared to the city as a whole, and once you go slightly further east into Highland Park, it is shocking, even for a Detroiter.

The neighborhood to the southwest of campus I just am not very familiar with, so I don't have any kind of opinion about it. The other neighborhoods, the ones I mentioned in the earlier paragraph, I have spent considerable time in, and have gotten to know some of the people, community organizations and so on.