I lived on the outskirts of Detroilet for four months. I was near 12 Mile road and once you got on the other side of 12 Mile road things deteriorated. There was a Subway on the other side of 12 Mile Road and I went in there once and never returned — opting instead for one farther away, but at least that one was clean and the biggest infraction of the law that would occur there would be public intoxication or minors with cigarettes.

I arrived right after a snowstorm. The place was in a mess and they had a heck of a time digging out, not something one would expect from a upper Midwestern city. The Mayor asked people to pitch in and help and then older people started dropping like flies from heart attacks so the Mayor had to reverse himself.

Then came the schools fight. The DPSS is in a world of hurt. The State of MI was attempting to take over the DPSS (at the time the Gov was Engler) but nope, better to wallow in one’s own $#!+ than accept help from others.

The other anecdote I recall was a investigative film footage of a Detroit road works crew. Their truck was pulled over and they were just getting drunk.

I was in Southfield attending mainframe bootcamp, the area around Southfield was okay. Every restaurant or store I was in you could count on hearing a conversation in Arabic.

The voters in Detroit just don’t know any better. This is where the woman figured the money being given to her simply came from “Obama’s stash”.

Of course, their former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is a notorious character. Google him.