If you have no connection to Detroit, this piece, "Does your Detroit suburb suck? An investigation" won't mean much to you. But if you are, you'll enjoy at least portions of the wit/snark. My own hometown is labelled "soul-suck" and I'm not going to argue with it.
Come to think of it: if you're not from the Detroit area, I invite you to play the game of asking yourself what the characterizations would be like for the 'burbs in your metro area. I'm told that there is now something of a revival and certain sections of Detroit are becoming hip, but, to the extent that this is true, it's very new, and prior to that, your relative degree of hipsterdom determined which particular Detroit suburb you gravitated toward.
Those who whine about gentrification would do well to remember that Detroit is, pretty much, a poster child for a city without gentrification, and hardly a model for others to copy.
Well, I guess Farmington and Farmington Hills are blah and bland, compared to Ferndale. (Or Royal Oak.)
ReplyDeleteFarmington has a nice downtown region, along Grand River. Livonia doesn't even have that.
Redford is grubby, blue-color, and downscale. But it's still suburban, and not Detroit.