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New Bird's Eye view photos all the way up to Big Beaver, y'all! See SE Michigan's new-urban cornucopia up close!
Just wanted to give you guys a heads up.
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alright, nvm....
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Gawd, if it even ever got close to one.
Detroiters take such...
never mind.
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Thats funny. No offense, Detroit has came along, but its nowhere as vibrant and cosmopolitan as Seattle. Now I this might come across as biased, because Im from Seattle and all, but Detroit is nowhere close to Seattle especially in the realm of bad stereotypes. Detroit was at one time much more than Seattle, but now I can bet you that more people have heard of Seattle now. Anyway, Detroit is doing alot of good things, but its got along way to clean itself up. Seattle never really a decline especially like Detroit.
Gods speed Detroit!
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yeah that grid was pretty much halfassed from the start.
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absolutely gorgeous.
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layoffs, crime, poverty, the rape of Rouge Park, the exodus
when all else fails in Detroit, the heart remains.
Let the excuses begin: Go to hell, ESPN.
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Two things. My first topic is in the form of a question.
1.) Did anybody go to the Tiger game today? Or maybe even downtown at a sports bar? My, oh, my... Probably the greatest sports related day of my life. Rogers pitching like an animal in front of the deafening roar of the Tiger fans. I was even getting rowdy, and I was sitting in front of a TV, 2000 miles away. My neighbors think i'm nuts.
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Yeah, and OSU fan from Metro Detroit. lol When did you become an OSU fan, Ill? I agree, though. MSU football just isn't all that great, and UofM basketball has been in a similar situation, if even improving.I also lived in Toledo as well, and though i've lived in Detroit for a longer time, most of my family still resides in Toledo, so I took on the OSU blood that was seemingly passed on to me. The interesting paret about Toledo is that its lodged in between Ann Arbor and Columbus, probably split 45 (OSU)-45(UM)-10(MSU, with Lansing a little farther out than AA). Yeah, around the end of November, it gets hectic. Almost every school and workplace in the area celebrates the day before the storm by wearing their teams respective colors.
While I believe UM will win, I have a much stronger animosity towards UM than MSU. I'll cheer them (spartans) on, but that 4th Quarter against Notre Dame didn't help their cause at all.
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Michigan is gonna manhandle MSU. And I'm speaking from a neutral standpoint as an OSU fan.
Support the Tigers.
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So who else is losing hair due to this Tigers collapse?
Very reminescent to the 2003 Minnesota Vikings
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Just Bomac's. Only Bomac's was torn down.
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Oops... I read it as a "slightly non descript building" and "Bomacs Bar".
Must have been sleepwriting. Still, there is no excuse to tear down an occupied building at this moment. It's not like anything better is going up in its place.
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This will come off completely naive and retarded, but I dont care.
What the eff did the city try to accomplish by demolishing two perfectly good buildings like that? Is the city that friggen desperate to scrap out a total of about 25 cot damn surface parking spaces? That seems like the only thing that comes to mind...
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thats what i susspected, when are they gonna start on the actua hotel/casino?
they have
hotel (michi's)
casino
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I don't know. A good parent(or more importantly parents) can instill values in their child that trump anything the streets throw at them.
Well, with all those single mothers in the city... one parent can only do so much. these kids need some real father figures as well, to teach them things that the mother isn't capable of teaching (hopefully i don't incite riot with that statement). who knows? not many people agree on the effects of "street life vs. parenting". its a touchy subject.
LMich, i've ran into many mothers who have showered their kids with love and proper parenting, yet still run around rampant like they are untouchable. humans aren't born criminals but then again not every kid aspires to take the right routes. the parents may value hard, honest work, whereas the kid looks for the quick sleazy buck. He watches his neighborhood drug smuggler earn in 5 days to what his father earns in a month. To some, it motivates them pursuing an education so they wouldn't end up like dad. The others, well, they look for a different outlet. And i've lived beside these types throughout my adolescence. its not that they can't escape their destiny; its that some would rather choose the bumpier road to achieve it, and one day they will be forced to pay their dues
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I can't feel sorry for the sobbing mother who's "innocent" son was murdered. If the kid hadn't gotten involved with drugs then he wouldn't have gotten himself in that situation, and if the parent had actually raised her child, it would have been easier for him to make better decisions.
i know its not extremely often, but you ever heard of "uncoachable" players? same thing here.
its no myth that you can do your best to raise a child, yet he still grows up to be a murderer. a bad seed does not necessarily mean that he was raised by a bad parent. a kid can't always be monitored. it what he picks up on the streets or in school.
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I love it when time periods go by when you visit and participate in an online forum such as this, and then you have that "Randy@Tacoma"-type person chime in with his amazement-at-Detroit comment. It just makes me chuckle at how clueless America is.
I don't mean that in a bad way toward you, Randy...I'm glad you've taken it upon yourself to recognize an honest reality. Welcome!
Seriously.
For those not from the region, its ALWAYS "8 Mile" that defines "Detroit".
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! It was yesterday, June 1!!!!!
OMFG IT WAS MINE TOO! 6/1!
P.S. Bye Bye Ben, or Flip.
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That was a pathetic finish, and it tarnished the significance of how well the Pistons actually did play today... as in the first 3 3/4 quarters.
After abot 6 lackadasical games, the Pistons are back to playing their type of basketball.
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So is GCP targeted to be the next gold mine? I sure hope.
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It also featured the music of a local rap artist.
Slum Village
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Here is an interesting documentation of the decay of a two-family flat on Detroit's far east side. It's amazing what a couple scrappers and just a few months of being unoccupied will do to a frame house. In October the building was recently vacated, with no broken windows. By Saturday, the scrappers had taken most of the brick, and the foundation was mostly gone, causing the house to sag.
that part of town is long. gone. ****in scrappers still annoy me though.
Too bad it wont receive any attention anytime soom, being on the far east side. Probably about 15 years before we see any gentrification over there.
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Give me a break this some of the dumbest s*hit I've ever read. Yeah it's the city's fault Proof pistol whipped and shot a guy you go around doing that someone will eventually shoot you. As far as I'm concerned he brought it on himselfill, you are so over dramatic, sometimes. Yeah, because LA and NYC are so safe for rappers...
Quote 1: Were you there to witness the incident? Do you believe one word that comes out of these "witnesses" mouths? He may have been completely innocent. He may have had it coming, but you can not take a second to believe anything that 'they' say. They only say it to discontinued further police investigation. Thats common in Detroit (along with other places).
Quote 2: When was the last time a rapper was killed in LA or NYC? Its been about 6 or 7 years since the last notable incident.
Rappers are not slain as often as the media wants us to think. Pac and BIG were 10 years ago. Big L was 7 years ago.
Call me dramatic. I just hate seeing the city constantly in a crappy spotlight. The entire city will get flack for Proof's death, as well as the flack its getting for the 911 incident.
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3 died? Besides J Dilla and Proof is there one other? Although Obie was shot in the head, he didn't die from it. He's coming out with a new album now. I think Henry Ford Hospital was still debating whether to remove the bullet or not.
Blade Icewood about 11 months ago, not November (slain on 7 Mile a week before his hyped debut album). Apparantly he was knee deep in sh*t anyway (he was shot on two different occasions in 2005) but he was a native nonetheless. If we keep losing rappers to this street BS, nobody is bound to take this city, and the hip hop industry, seriously...
Yea, J Dilla died of kidney failure, not a murder. It still sucks, though...
I agree, though. MSU football just isn't all that great, and UofM basketball has been in a similar situation, if even improving.
Detroit Off Topic
in Detroit
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Wow, actually some areas even above Troy get coverage, such as Rochester, the Bloomfield area, and Auburn Hills. Most of Metro Detroit is covered, actually. Birds Eye View really does Birmingham justice.