Is Detroit an enjoyable place to visit?

I'm driving to Montreal next weekend. I'm considering stopping in Detroit on Friday night. Should I stop? or should I continue on into the territories?

i'd keep driving, as fast as possible, past that hellhole they call detroit. i think it's a terribly depressing place with very little to do there. you do get to see crazy ted nugent billboards as you are driving there though!

spoot wrote:Is Detroit an enjoyable place to visit?

I'm driving to Montreal next weekend. I'm considering stopping in Detroit on Friday night. Should I stop? or should I continue on into the territories?

If you find car jackings enjoyable (being jacked...not jacking) then yes, Detroit is great. While not the worst city in the United States it is very close. Perhaps second worst, just behind The Armpit (aka Cleveland).

We played a show there a few years back at a BYOB "club." A friend went out for beer and got car jacked on his way back. The worst part is that they stole our beer too! The car is one thing...but the beer? Have a heart Mr. Robber. We vowed never to return, without turrets installed on our van. Of course we have returned many times and that city is never good.

j harvey, what band are you in?

The last time I was in Detroit my car was broken into (they tried to steal it). It was parked on Woodward, under a street light, two blocks from the police station, while a police sting operation was going on inside the building that overlooked my car. The purpose of the sting operation was to stop rampant car theft along the Woodward corridor. When we went down to the police station to file a report we discovered that seven other cars had been stolen from the same block that night.

So I wouldn't recommend it. Also it's pretty much a wasteland except for a good rock show once in a while and all the sports stuff.

waltermalling wrote:j harvey, what band are you in?

Slint along with myself, LVP and the kerble

haaaaa!!!
you should be funniest dragon instead of angriest!


once again, nice work!

Drive as fast as you can.

Stay awake by thinking about how beautiful Montreal is going to be or listen to evangelical radio.

I'll go back to Detroit when Robocop is reactivated.

-Jeremy

Angriest_Dragon wrote:

waltermalling wrote:j harvey, what band are you in?

Slint along with myself, LVP and the kerble

When I'm not playing Good Morning, Captain I play in a band called Dianogah.

Detroit is a hole. Just depressing. There might be a good show at the Magic Stick, but other than that there is nothing haps in Detroit. To suggest that Cleveland is worse is ridiculous. There is nothing like Detroit. It is almost science fiction in its levels of desolation. Tragic.