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Originally Posted by hipster duck
Well, in terms of "big city character" Detroit definitely comes up a little short. It's basically a sunbelt city without the sunbelt weather.
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Really? Doesn't look like the sunbelt at all to me. I see a standard midwestern city, except that it's really large and really bombed out in the centre. And seriously, seriously dangerous.
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Originally Posted by hipster duck
I guess with Detroit you don't get a city, you get a population centre: you still have the critical mass that can support esoteric shops and decent restaurants, but you have to know exactly where they are ahead of time so that you can plan your drive to a strip mall in Royal Oak, or wherever.
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It's the bleakest city I've ever been to in my life, plopped right down in the middle of the least appealing part of the U.S.: the midwest. Ann Arbor stands out a bit for its academic atmosphere and collegiate sports, though not enough to really ameliorate the passive-aggressive dourness and prickliness smothering a general uneasiness and repressed tendency to violence (mixed in with the other multitudinous aspects of American culture and society that I hate, etc.).
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