Money? Specifically Oakland county? What has money got to do with it? Oakland County has nothing of note to visit in it. Maybe the Holocaust Museum?
And. Furthermore, Detroit is not "dangerous to a degree" only. It is a very dangerous place, particularly at night. Merely drop you off at the intersection of Grand River Avenue and Grand Blvd at one a.m. and you would develop new sprinting skills that you never knew you had.
Just a few years ago there were forty thousand abandoned houses marked for demolition in Detroit. Lots of these have homeless living inside them. Dark too. Look on you tube.
Detroit has many things to do, and I've done them all. It is THE place to be.
Maritime sailors Cathedral made famous through the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is there. A bridge to Canada. Belle Isle which is an Island in the middle of the Detroit River which is bigger than Central Park of N.Y.-
The anchor from the famous shipwreck is at a museum on Belle Isle.
General Motors World Headquarters, a magnificent circular skyscraper with an upscale revolving restaurant at its' top. The building was bought off of Ford Motor Company. This building has an elevated (forty feet?) electric rail running between buildings, through, the G.M. building. Yes.
This building above is located on the Detroit River on their Riverwalk and; inside the center of the first floor is a circular revolving turnstile , huge, offering all of G.M.'s current offerings in autos and trucks sitting for consideration. Salesmen offering them. Upscale dining at the top (what a view!)and even a McDonalds offering food to the poor you've described here I suppose, all this- on the first and second floors in an open space design. Very elegant.Their River walk is wide and the office workers can be seen going for a walk there for exercise. A big rear paddle wheel boat is sitting,waiting, for rides, gambling and dining going over the top of a Two mile wide blue,blue,blue, water river, with huge ocean bound carriers steaming by. Fish being pulled out of the River,one after the other, every May.
Just west of downtown, through Mexicantown, all ethnic groups have a neighborhood, is the Henry Ford Museum, one of Americas greatest museums. A national treasure, known simply as "The Ford". I always purchased annual memberships until the pandemic hit. It was shutdown for a long time. The greatest collection of Americana anywhere.This was Henry's baby and he looked over every aspect of its' creation- no expense was spared and it is still owned by the Ford Family today. The museum is gigantic, really, and there are always license tags from all over the country there beginning every spring.
The Ford family just sold their Detroit Lions football team. Also. Year round professional sports games. Detroit Tigers Baseball, Detroit Red Wings Hockey.
The River itself is gorgeous, in the true sense of the word. Awesome. Detroit is a French word meaning "The straits".
Oakland County? One should not enter things here about which one has no knowledge.
even though there's extreme poverty in some parts of town, there's a hell of a lot of money on the N/NW side, Alamo Heights/Olmos Park/Terrell Hills and Boerne/New Braunfels.
You can kind of make a similar case with Detroit. Most people completely write it off and think it's dangerous (which is true to a degree) but there's a lot of places in the metro area that are extremely nice (specifically Oakland County) that people don't even think about.
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Detroit is not marketed in the same way at all. Even if Detroit was founded 10 years before San Antone was founded -by France, as a fur trading settlement. Besides, it is at least for half the year very cold in Michigan. One might golf in a parka I suppose.
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