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Downtown Detroit is fine, not too much unlike any major city. Detroit earned it's bad reputation in the 90s when the downtown was actually pretty bad. Nowadays, the city is improving. The downtown isn't as big as other comparable cities but if you are staying downtown, corktown, or midtown it's actually quite safe
Interestingly, Detroit actually got so bad that it laid the seeds for its own recovery. The city was able to save money by essentially closing down and bulldozing entire abandoned neighborhoods, and capital is starting to trickle back in because real estate is so cheap.
The issue is so much of the general population in our country partakes in underground economy from time to time. In a given year with 300 murders in Detroit 60ish will be "wrong place wrong time". The rest are settling underground economy beefs, domestic/neighbor disputes. I have a property in Detroit, with 3 units, have had it for 5 years.
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So, while there are "dangerous" cities that have some sort of gang elements interwoven in some parts of the city, Detroit's is much bigger, much less policed, much less supported both financially and socially (at least metro-locally) - the propensity for bad things to happen is very great when you combine these factors. There is a reason home ...
there's a difference in crime in detroit vs in downtown detroit where the places you named are. there are also bad neighborhoods with tons of crime in suburbs too ie parts of taylor, wayne, like all of inkster. so yeah if you're avoiding bad neighborhoods, go ahead. campus martius isn't in the hood or something though just because it's "detroit"
However the level of property crime is much higher In the d. Take a vacation there, stay in downtown, midtown, or corktown. Walk or bike everywhere and enjoy a city where you can be outside during the summer. I brought my gf to detroit for the first time last month and she gets why i like this city so much.
It's not even habitable as far as I'm concerned. Literally as bad as a third world country. The thing that frustrates me is that many people are ignorant to why Detroit is the way it is. The rise and fall of Detroit has to be one of the greatest stories of modern human history, people shouldn't take it lightly and make jokes about it.
Murder, assault, car jackings, everything. There’s a reason we are one of the most dangerous cities in America. But crime is everywhere, even if you’re not in the middle of Memphis. In Germantown area, my aunt had her car stolen from her driveway in 2022. So really, you’re not 100% safe no matter where you go.
Metro Detroit has over built its residential infrastructure so that less people are paying more utilities, so that we have low density suburban housing surrounding an increasingly thinned out urban core. Detroit’s infrastructure is aging so needs to be replaced, so their investments have been in expensive modernization.