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Yep, Detroit sucks. I didn't watch the video, as I really don't have to. Flint is getting the same way and so is Saginaw. The entire state of Michigan is going to shit. That's what you get when you invest the entire state into one industry and then have all the jobs leave.
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Well, I don't live there. But for the past few years, we have gone there a bunch. Two years ago my grandpa (who also lived there) passed away and subsequently we made numerous trips up there (we live in Florida). Plus, we like to go to the auto show every year. And with this, I can confirm that Detroit is indeed like the video says.
My Grandpa had the luxury to live in one of the communities around Gross Pointe (the nicest area around Detroit) so where he lived wasn't too bad. After he passed away, his estate was left to my mother and we made trips up there fixing it up and renovating it (it was a house built in the 40's/50's for troops coming back from WW2). Over the course of the year or so we had possession of it, it was hit (robbed) three times. The first time they took quite a bit of stuff (old TV, other "junk") and they even had the will to lug a snowblower from the basemet and steal it. The second time it was hit they took all the copper pipes out of the house (since copper is worth so much money) and if we hadn't had the water shut off, they would have flooded the entire house. Speaking of which, the vacant house next to my grandpa's had it's copper pipes stolen but the water wasn't shut off, and the entire basement was flooded. It was hit a third time but there was nothing left to steal so they didn't do any damage.
On my grandpa's block of six or seven houses, of which only one is occupied, over the course of a week every single house was vandalized/robbed. The neighbor next door had his entire gun collection stolen.
Fortunately, before the economy up there took and even bigger nosedive, we sold the place for almost $75,000.
I don't really feel like continuing on, but I'll leave you with a picture I took the last time I was up there.
