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We drive into Highland Park, a tiny city almost completely surrounded by Detroit proper. Highland Park is best known as the site of Henry Ford\'s first assembly line and, more recently, as the setting of the Clint Eastwood movie Gran Torino. Thousands of people moved to the area in the Teens and Twenties to build Model T\'s, but those working-class families are mostly gone now, and in recent years, entire residential blocks, once tightly packed with houses, have been razed by arsonists and demolition. We turn onto a side street and drive past a large, empty field covered in snow, with impossibly tall patches of yellow grass poking up like a wheat field. "I wish you were here in summer," John says. "It looks like a jungle in Bolivia. You\'ll see these vast grasslands with one home in four blocks. There are no city services. These people are alone on the frontier. Someone saw a coyote downtown last year."
I like Minneapolis and Chicago. Don\'t really care for anything in Wisconsin. The only time I\'ve been to Detroit was on my way to Canada. That was years ago, and I didn\'t see much, but I\'ve heard it\'s pretty scary now. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/26217951/motor_city_breakdown/
East coast major cities in a nutshell:- NYC is a cesspool but you\'ll never get bored. Just make sure you\'re a hard worker.- DC is fun when the weather\'s nice but pretty much dead in the winter.- Philly has culture but is D-I-R-T-Y.- Miami is fun, to visit only. There\'s no culture with all those tourists.- Have never been to Boston but interested in visiting. Too cold to live there though.
NYC is not like it was even as of the late 90\'s.DC is also nasty and crime ridden. Damn near the only nice part about DC is the Mall area.Miami and tourists? Yea if you only hang around the tourist spots. There is an overflow and abundance of culture down here. lol
