"So I guess there are some grocery stores, but not quality ones." I disagree. Check out (next time you're in the city) honeybee. It's an _awesome_ grocery store. After that I've been to a variety of the mercados as well as some of the more common spartan stores (not my faves...i'd make the drive for honeybee most of the time if i needed stuff...but it's a fairly large chain).

Also, there's eastern market, which is pretty nice (although I'm pretty partial to the farmer's markets in chicago these days).

"You can't safely live and work in a city like this." YOU can't, but i sure can. I've lived and worked near a variety of projects in other cities as well. It's a city. There are bad elements... like any other city. If you got mugged in NYC would you say you can't safely live and work in a city like NYC? Of course not. That's not to say detroit is for you. Some people can handle environments like that. Others can't. It's cool. I would have a horrible time dealing with living and working in Haiti (i would think), but I have friends who deal with it just fine.