Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II.
Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.
Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.
People think that Detroit is this barren wasteland. While there are parts that are not as nice as others, the misconception is not true. It is definitely not a thriving community in Detroit, but it is getting there. There is a lot of heart and love in this city.
As a foreigner, I used to think all of Michigan was a post-apocalyptic wasteland of burning buildings, trashed cars, abandoned factories and broken dreams. But now I know that's just Detroit. It's only the Democrat-controlled areas that are a disaster.
I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time.
I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.
I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it.
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.