Detroit in Ruins

Re:Detroit in Ruins by riceadam on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @12:34PM (#2869000)

I'm a UM student and I can't say there's much alumni activity in Detroit itself. Grads generally either work in Ann Arbor, Metro Detroit (Birmingham, Royal Oak, etc.) or leave the state entirely.

This graphic from Forbes is pretty telling: http://goo.gl/4uBr

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Re:Detroit in Ruins by klous on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @03:26PM (#2869784)

I'm a UM grad and I live in downtown Detroit. It's amazing: great culture, music, food, night-life, and I feel safe. I took our entire office to my place before a Tiger's game last week and now multiple people are looking into moving downtown and others are interested after that graduate.

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Re:Detroit in Ruins by rick888 on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @05:28PM (#2870282)

Downtown might be okay. However, if you go outside just a little bit, you are in the danger zone. This isn't speculation.

Even 8 years go it was bad. I worked downtown and could regularly hear gunshots from my office during the day.

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Re:Detroit in Ruins by kenjackson on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @12:43PM (#2869044)

Wow, that's a pretty crazy graphic. At first I thought I just couldn't see the black lines, so I clicked Seattle.

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