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My city is the greatest in the USA!

I am a proud Detroiter.

The city has seen some hard times of late.

And gets a bad rap.

Some of it deserved.

But we are Coming  Back!

And are still the greatest city in the nation!

Maybe the world.

Why?

Our proud history.

For the longest time the auto Capitol of the planet!

Our downtown Renaissance Center which we call the RenCen is ultra modern and has great clubs and restaurants and shopping.

Our music history! Motown records, baby! Some of the greatest music ever made. We still have a vibrant music scene. Great Jazz.

You can escape the city and be immersed in nature in no time. Gorgeous Michigan woods and parks.

World class museums and art centers.

Great sports teams! My Red Wings...LIONS....TIGERS.....PISTONS! Who just made the NBA playoffs. And the TIGERS are going to the World Series. The Lions will be in the playoffs too!

Housing prices are cheap and not absurdly overpriced like in some great cities. Yes..thus the American Dream still lives.

We are slowly getting our manufacturing base back. Some high tech.

Just across the border is beautiful Canada!

So...like a Phoenix from the ashes...we shall rise and become even greater.

A shining jewel of a city!


Anybody who has ever been here knows how great we are.

Our weather is great! Four good seasons. Winters are Cold but that is invigorating and part of what makes us so tough.

Hockey town USA, baby!

LONG LIVE DETROIT!!!!

What say you?

Thanks.

SS

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6 points

It's not even top 10.

Hellno(17753) Banned
6 points

Q: What will happen if the City of Detroit loses another 25 percent of their population?

A: City Council will change the cities nickname from Motown to LessTown!

Q. Why do ducks fly over Detroit upside down?

A. There's nothing worth craping on!

Q: What is the difference between a person from Detroit and a baby? A: The baby will stop whining after awhile.

Q: What's the only thing that grows in Detroit? A: The Crime Rate!

Q: How much snow and sleet fell in Detroit? A: So much that hookers are exchanging sex for Ice Melt.

Q: How do you know that the Detroit's finances are a complete mess? A: Al Qaeda is trying to find a way to take credit for it!

Q: What are Mcdonald's employees now asking customers in Detroit? A: Can you afford fries with that?

Q: How bad is the economy in Detroit? A: Motor City Casino was turned into an Indian reservation!

Q: What is the difference between a bucket of shit and people from Detroit? A: The bucket.

Q: What do you call a Detroiter that has been beaten and shot yet is still alive? A: Unlucky (He is still in Detroit)

Q: How do you casterate a person from Detroit? A: Kick his sister in the mouth

SlapShot(2608) Disputed
0 points

Typical of the lack of originality and intellect you continually display here, all those jokes are as old as dirt and have been used interchangeably with different cities forever.

The first fime I heard some of them was about twenty years ago and they were for Cleveland.

So you googled Detroit jokes.....

Wow!

Now clever and cool you are.

We are all Impressed.

Especially from someone who doesn't have the sack to tell us where he lives.

I mean, besides with mom and dad.

Most of those comments are wrong anyway.

Oh...that's right. You wouldn't know. You have never been here.

Which is probably good for you.

You wouldn't last two minutes.

Faggot.

LOL

Hellno(17753) Disputed Banned
4 points

Sorry I hurt your feelings. 😢

Atrag(5666) Clarified
4 points

u have never been here.

Which is probably good for you.

You wouldn't last two minutes.

But yet you say there is no problem with crime? Hahahaha.

4 points

I can respect anyone being proud of their city. And if you're going to blow your own trumpet you might as well do it loudly. But Detroit is no where close to the best. There is no way Detroit edges NYC, Boston, Chicago, San Fran, and on and on.

SlapShot(2608) Clarified
1 point

But this article says otherwise!

Do me a favor and read it, then tell me what you think?

Thanks!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-nickum/detroit-is-better b4862037.html

Grenache(6053) Clarified
1 point

That's a fun read. There are just two problems. 1) They didn't compare to Boston. And 2) The sum does not add up from the separate parts, meaning even though Detroit beats some cities in some individual categories it doesn't mean therefore it beats all cities in all categories.

3 points

Yup, it's a real gem, and so picturesque... I can't imagine why it gets such a bad rap, no offense Eminem. LOL

Thanks!

The Greatest (?) City In The USA
SlapShot(2608) Disputed
1 point

Yeah...so here's the deal, genius.

The video immediately showed the title ....Ghettos of Detroit.

Really? You pull that out of your flabby ass?

Real fair.

I can pull up ghetto vids on any city in America.

In an unfair attempt to disparage.

But I won't.

Let's just look at this instead.

The real Detroit.

Hope this helps you out.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QWZY0-xSK8o

RavenLily(733) Disputed
3 points

Aww, I'm sorry I hurt your little feelings... I should've been more sensitive about you having to live in such a shit-hole. BTW genius, the only flabby thing is your over-inflated ego and sense of self-importance.

Hope this helps you out.

Thanks!

LOL

2 points

I thought Detroit was the worst city in America.

High illiteracy-, high crime-, high drug-, high unemployment- rates.

Badly polluted from those auto industries you like so much.

SlapShot(2608) Disputed
1 point

No, pollution is not a problem.

And a lot of those manufacturing plants have been dormant for awhile.

And the ones that still run have ascribed to Clean Air Act and thus have complied with emission regulations.

The crime has been on the downswing for years now.

I'm have not doubt Detroit has many good things to offer; just make sure you keep the democrats and the unions out of the seats of power, or they will once again run it into the ground like they did prior to its bankruptcy.

2 points

This is actually good advice!

For now during our rebuilding process some Big Gov money and subsidies

would be nice, but after that......we need fiscal conservatives here.

Thanks!

HighFalutin(3402) Clarified
2 points

Re: "This is actually good advice!"

That's the only kind of advice I give. :-p

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Saintnow(3684) Disputed
1 point

They got plenty of money when Empowerment Zones were subsidized, dismal property values doubled or tripled and.it remais a drug and prostitute. Cockroach punk war zone, I was a realtor doing many deals in Detroit at that time . Money throwing nto pits of cockroach projects always gets shredded while a fee politicians and businessmen get fat. If the. Decent people don't fighit for their neighborhoods without government handouts and fire the useless money grubbing politicians, Detroit will remin full of cockroach enclaves no matter how much money is fed to them.

2 points

Argentina is the best city in the USA.

supermasuel(170) Disputed
1 point

That is not a city nor is the usa.

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2 points

Good luck preaching white superiority in your beloved town.

Hope you have enough medical ensurance.

SlapShot(2608) Disputed
1 point

Why would I want to preach white superiority in Detroit?

And anyway..it's hardly the only big American city where anybody doing so might incur problems.

Are you saying Detroit has a lot of angry or violent blacks?

Cuz that is racist.

Look..

I have a ton of black friends at this jazz and blues club I go to downtown calIed Clif Bells. I even sit in sometimes on drums there on Monday nights which is Open Stage night.

They call me 'fessor.

Hey...lookie! Here come da Fessor! Gonna play some skins tonight, Fessor?

LOL

For "professor."

Even though I'm not one. Which I've explained manyt times.

But to them any white guy who studies biology at UM is like a professor.

I be lovin those cats.

Hope this helps.

Mexico city is the best

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SlapShot(2608) Disputed
1 point

Too big!!

What is the population now?

20 million?

Wow!!

Esta loco, vato. Muchas personas.

Y.....el ciudad es muy sucio.

And I heard it's the kidnapping Capitol of the world?

O, no es verdad?

Repuesta, por favor!

Gracias, Compa.

Atrag(5666) Disputed
1 point

esta loco, vato. Muchas personas.

Y.....el ciudad es muy sucio.

And I heard it's the kidnapping Capitol of the world?

O, no es verdad?

Repuesta, por favor!*!

Es una locura. Hay mucha gente.

Y... La ciudad esta muy sucia.

....

....

Una repuesta por favor.

Hope this helps :)

1 point

The Lions will make the playoffs? That's a joke right ?

SlapShot(2608) Clarified
1 point

No joke.

Lions and Seattle for the NFC title!

Remember where ya heard it first!

SS

1 point

I owned rentals and did a lot of business in that dope soaked prostitution market full of punk gangsters and thank God they burned down my last rental there, insurance paid it off and I hope to never go back there...what a dump it is. So what if a few people there have the means to live above the burn out of Detroit, you take your life in out hand if you walk down the street in practically any cockroach punk infested neighborhood there. Walk the strip of Eight Mile around Evergreen after dark and see how wonderful Detroit is....if you make it out without a trip to the hospital....pretty much all of Eight Mile and the whole city is the same.

0 points

Altough I feel your info and experiences of Detroit are outdated and you are being too harsh on my fair city, I will admit that it is not a great idea to go a strollin down 8 Mile at night.

But then....all major American cities have their sketchy areas, do they not?

Thanks!

Oh.....almost forgot......

Hail Satan!

0 points

Of course........I am not the only one who knows Detroit is great and will get even greater.

Check this out........

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-nickum/detroit-is-better b4862037.html

RavenLily(733) Disputed
2 points

If you have to use the Huffington Post to support your argument, you've lost before you've even begun. LOL

Thanks!

SlapShot(2608) Disputed
1 point

What's wrong with the Huff?

Besides, it was only one of four so far I have used.

Here is another one for you..........

http://www.buzzfeed.com/tombellino/10-reasons-why-detroit-will-prove-critics-wrong-a104

Cartman(18192) Disputed Banned
1 point

That list says that Detroit is better because no one lives in Detroit. If it was so great people would be living there.

SlapShot(2608) Disputed
1 point

You need to read this link too!

Also..it ain't totally Accurate to claim people wouldn't move if Motown was great.

Many folks loved the city but had to leave for employment purposes.

Like how people loved new Orleans but had to leave.

And like those New Orleans denizens, many of those who left Detroit will return when our employment situation improves. Which it will!

Thanks.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-nickum/detroit-is-better b4862037.html

1 point

It was well over a million then dropped to eight hundrr thousand as blacks fled the same as whites prior . The people who say it's getting better are scooping the dust left behind to build themselves fortresses, gated communities where they can hide from the scum and cockroach punk prostitutes and dopeheads. It's still a war zone.

0 points

And yet ANOTHER article extolling our virtues.

My city is better than Yours!!!!!

LOL

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/great-american-city-detroit-article-1.1028629

Cartman(18192) Disputed Banned
1 point

Robb Todd has one other article, and it is almost identical. Detroit is just like Nicaragua, congratulations. And, there is no reason to trust someone who can't spell "Rob" correctly.

0 points

Most people who think Detroit is a bad city simply know very little about it.

Only a few things they hear on the news.

So I humbly offer this lost of things about my city that just very well may surprise you!!!!!

Enjoy!

http://mentalfloss.com/article/26043/10-things-about-detroit-may-surprise-you

Cartman(18192) Disputed Banned
1 point

1. Detroit is a great city for plants. That doesn't help your case.

2. 8 movies were filmed in Detroit. Wow, real enticing.

3. Oh man. The oldest road in the country. How fabulous.

4. Detroit: not useful since 1944.

5. Detroit: We hate the law.

6. Wow, a crappy marathon that is only cool because it involves another country. Detroit: We aren't interesting on our own.

7. Eminem lives in Rochester Hills which is outside of Detroit. I wonder if any of the people on that list really live in Detroit.

8. Detroit: We have been a garbage dump for over 340 years.

9. Wow, the only home of a shitty game. There's a reason no one else wants to play that game.

10. At least this guy isn't as crazy as you to think the Lions are good.

SlapShot(2608) Disputed
1 point

Most of the local pro athletes live in Rochester Hills or Bloomfield Hills.

So what?

If you knew anything about pro athletes and celebs you'd know that most of them live in the fancy upscale suburbs of their respective cities.

Eminem grew up in Detroit. And loves the city.

Your points #4, 5, 6 & 8 are patently wrong.

The marathon is great! I ran it twice.

A lot more than eight movies have been filmed here.

Shitty game? What are you speaking of?

I sure hope it's not my game of hockey?

Cuz that would probably anger me.

-1 points

Wow!!!!

Just......WOW!!!

Six links and a dozen excellent posts proving Detroit is an Awesome City!!

Talk about a guy who proves his point, eh?

So.......

Which of you cats is gonna sack up and be the first to apologize?

Thanks!!!!!!

If you want gimme your email and I'll send you some real estate info!!!

Cuz my town sure as shit beats whatever dump you live in!!

LOL

Hellno(17753) Disputed Banned
3 points

No one cares about your links because everyone knows this character is just a slave to Google search. Give it up. You're lame. Detroit is the armpit of American. Everyone knows it. I've been there 4 or 5 times... it wasn't as bad as Morocco or Egypt, I've to both, but it wasn't much better.

IAmSparticus(1516) Clarified
2 points

You live in Michigan. You've got some nice lakes, that's about it.