Originally Posted by Maelochs

Here is the real issue: Either a person thinks that whole article is fake, or a person thinks it is mostly accurate.

Why anyone would doubt that there might be some nice sections of Detroit .... based on a few pictures .... whatever. I don't let the media think for me.

I used to live in Mouse Town, in Florida. If you ever see anything in the media about the city, (or any other city adjacent to Disneyworkld) you would think the whole state is vacation Paradise.

It is also the state where a lot of episodes of "Cops" are filmed, and which provides the greatest number of YouTube videos of stupid pranks gone wrong and stupid criminals causing mayhem.

I lived there and all around there for along time. I am a pretty cool character, who is generally comfortable in any setting, and I have lived in some places which would scare a lot of people.

At the same time, there were places in Orlando---some very close to downtown, six blocks form downtown, where I learned not to because there were gangs of punks who would cause trouble. I never couldn't get away, but it is no joke when you realize you could get seriously beat buy a bunch of punks just for just walking through.

On the other hand, I walked or biked 97 percent of the city and some of what good, some great, some very gentrified and big-bucks upscale.

I don't think they were lying in that article, just living in an oasis of securioty where well-to-do people lived and worked.

No one thinks the pictures of Detroit's bad sections are faked .... but no ojne shows the same sections for All cities I have been in .... and I have seen the bad side of a lot of cities.

if this was Baltimore, would you have believed it? have you ever cruised the bad sections of Baltimore on bike. it's scary. I have been robbed in Boston, seen the worst sides of New York ..... but If i said I bike commuted in any of those cities everyone would understand I didn't mean the most dangerous neighborhoods.