Mentions (21)
"NYC is too clean and gentrified and you can't afford it anymore? Move to Detroit, or Baltimore, or Saint Louis, any city in Upstate NY. Parts of Philly would probably work too. You could rent a dumpy apartment in these cities for $600/month."
"Seattle always had homeless people, and as someone who comes from Detroit, I am no stranger to the dark underworld of American cities, but my god I have never seen anything like what I just saw in Seattle."
"I live on 7 Mile in Detroit, and yet it's beyond all irony how all our mass-shootings lately have been in bougie Oakland County. Despite our reputation, last time Detroit-proper had a shooting that left over 3 dead was back in 1997 (and in a nicer part of town)."
"I have 50 messages on HandShake from "high needs" schools in Detroit, Memphis and Chicago starting at $30k."
"Hey I live 15 min from Detroit MI, my upstairs neighbor is a (ballpark estimate) 300-450 pound white woman who wakes up at 5:30 every morning and stomps the fuck out of my ceiling."
"Title: Detroit, Michigan. Rioting at the Sojourner Truth housing project Creator(s): Siegel, Arthur S., photographer Date Created/Published: 1942 Feb."
"I live in Detroit. I was leaving my girl's apartment in another neighborhood of the city this morning around 5AM when I came to a red light outside of a closed liquor store. There was this alone black dude dressed in mid-00's hip-hop style clothing. He was pacing around the empty parking lot in timb"
"Then today some guy gave me water before i went surfing. I was watching a football game at a bar while eating lunch and I became buddies with these two guys visiting from Detroit."
"Last night I went to the MrBallen show in Detroit with my grandma. If you don't know, MrBallen is a 'true crime' YouTuber, who covers murders, mysteries, and supernatural happenings."
"I live in the closer suburbs of Detroit, and I've traveled all around the US, but never to NYC or LA."
"6'2 strong white guy who has traveled the world and never once been victim of a crime besides that time I was carjacked at gunpoint in Detroit when I was 16"
"Moving hard drugs from Afghanistan to Detroit."
"Born and raised in western Washington State, I've been to northern Michigan quite a bit to visit family but I just visited Detroit for the first time and I have to say, it seems WAY safer than Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Portland. Downtown is fucking gorgeous, the streets are clean, the "
"Detroit being next to Canada always trips me out. Same with Turkey bordering Bulgaria, Iran with Armenia, Russia with North Korea, Italy with Slovenia"
"Detroit is a bigger example and there's still a lot of Art Deco downtown that most people might assume was lost long ago."
"Even places like Madison (Wi) or some other gay midwestern city like Minneapolis or Detroit both have more organic local culture than Columbus."
"In my experience driving through Great Lakes and Midwest cities the last few years, and in hearing reports from the west coast, Detroit appears to be one of the few cities that is getting *better*."
"I think for a long time it was detroit. Eminem and ICP are wigger GOATs. I actually think mid sized industrial cities are wigger breeding grounds, and its sad that part of american culture is dying :("
"Give me Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Columbus, Buffalo, Cincinnati any day"
"besides that time I was carjacked at gunpoint in Detroit when I was 16"
"Detroit is a bigger example and there's still a lot of Art Deco downtown that most people might assume was lost long ago."