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Do you consider Detroit as a World Class City? |
Travel Info Do you consider Detroit as a World Class City? Travel Tips Man this is a really tough question for me to answer since I live in Michigan and have often spent time in Detroit for both business and pleasure. It is hard not to consider any city as "World Class" that has such a large population, cultural diversity, history, hosts teams of all 4 major sports (3 in the city itself), has an international border, large-scale cultural events, festivals, attractions all year long, headquarters to many businesses and corporations including the Big Three automakers, etc., etc. On the other hand, there are many reasons why many would definitely "not" define Detroit as "World Class." Decades of "white flight" from the city has left Detroit and its' suburbs as probably the most racially segregated area in the nation. In addition, the economic fate of the city has been, almost exclusively, tied to the health of our domestic auto industry and, as foreign automakers continue to take away market-share, the city (and actually the entire state of Michigan) continually faces an ever increasing financial struggle. Likewise, unemployment in Michigan and Detroit in particular have seemingly spiraled out of control (I'm one of the currently unemployed myself). Although there are, in fact, many liveable working-class neighborhoods and pockets of quite wealthy communities, much of the city has deteriorated seriously due to these financial pressures. Many areas within the city are infested with gangs and crimes of all sort ranging from drugs to prostitution to armed robbery; although I don't believe it is true any longer, Detroit also cannot shake its' violent image as "the Murder Capital of the World." In addition, city services have continued to suffer from lack of funding; sometimes trash doesn't seem to be picked up in parts of the city for months (or even years or ever). Just like most places, any good news from the city doesn't make the national news and only the troublesome stories are broadcast around the nation, or internationally- which is why so many people have such a distorted, negative image of Detroit; there are many people living in the Detroit suburbs who dread coming to the city and thousands of people living in outstate Michigan have never been to Detroit out of fear inspired by the media coverage. They are missing out on all that the city does have to offer and, more importantly, Detroit is missing out on a chance to lure people (and their dollars) back as tourists,employers and employees or, possibly, even as residents. All this being said, I think most people around the Detroit area, including myself, question whether the city can be defined as world class and I guess as further proof it isn't is the lack of tourism to Detroit. I can see why some people in Detroit and the surrounding suburbs can think of the city of Detroit as a major, metropolitian city; I can understand why so many of us that regularly visit Detroit wrestle with the very question you are asking; and, I can also understand why the vast majority of people who have never visited the city and are only exposed to the continual negative media would laugh at your question. Source(s): Personal experience. Other Travel Tips No No way Slum City...... Why not ? So is my home city ST Louis, but of course all you hear about is New York! Errrrrrr you are joking! |
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