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Originally Posted by edale
It's not trolling. I would never think of going to Detroit to experience 'the big city'. Downtown Detroit feels similar to like a Downtown Cleveland or Cincinnati. Nice architecture, some shopping and restaurants, sports arenas...but pretty damn quiet most evenings and weekends. There's no subway, no theater district, no continuous stretch of urban neighborhoods to explore, not much in the way of unique or upscale shopping.
It's not a knock on Detroit specifically-- there's only a handful of cities in North America that really offer the big city experience.
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My issue is that you are throwing out opinions about other peoples mindset without having ever lived their experience or talking to them. That’s lack of empathy.
Fwiw I grew up in Toledo with Windsor / Detroit 45 min down the road. Cleveland is only 90 min away. I can tell you by far that Detroit was considered the big city. It was 3x bigger than Cleveland and has all big retail outlets you’d find in LA. Just like there, they’re not all downtown. In the 80s Detroit metro was right there population wise with peer metros falling right behind NYC/LA/CHI. The big big city was Chicago at a 3.5 hr drive away. NYC was irrelevant till you get east of Cleveland.
Back when newspapers were a thing you would see 4-5 papers available on the streets. In order it was the Detroit Free press, Toledo Blade, the Plain Dealer and Chicago tribune. Sometimes you would see the Columbus Dispatch.
We would get both Toledo and Detroit TV. Detroit news covered Windsor.
At night from Perry’s Monument in Lake Erie you could see the lights of Detroit/Windsor, Toledo, Cleveland, and even Buffalo//Toronto.