Hell I don’t even like cities but I’m smart enough to know that its a whole lot cheaper to fix them than let them fall to decay. In the case of Detroit, its the second busiest landlocked port city on the continent after Laredo (and laredo doesn’t lead by much)
If you combine the land borne freight with the water borne freight, Detroit probably surpasses Laredo by a mile.
We let our boys hookey out of school to go to the Tigers game today--met up with my in-laws and spent the day in Detroit. We had a great time (first I've been to the new stadium), walked all over, never had any problems, never felt unsafe. In fact, I've felt more unsafe on the MSU campus than I've ever felt in Detroit. We've taken the kids all over the city and we've
never had any problems, no issues whatsoever. The only thing that seems to throw the boys is that Detroit bums really are street people--we have dozens of panhandlers in Lansing and they're nearly all high-school or college kids.
It's easy for people to pound on Detroit and be dismissive of what it has going for it. I really can't stand when someone has a go at Bing without knowing a damn thing about the man.