Having driven into Detroit before, I can add that another problem is just how miserable it is to get to from outside. Once you get into the heart of the city for whatever event you're attending at a time when the city is "alive," it's great. The problem is that you have to get past a sea of decrepit housing projects that you can see from miles out to get there. Even just looking at them off the freeway is bizarre and offputting, it's no surprise that people are wigged-out after having to get through a ring of depressing ghetto zone to get to the nice city in the middle.
Having driven into Detroit before, I can add that another problem is just how miserable it is to get to from outside. Once you get into the heart of the city for whatever event you're attending at a time when the city is "alive," it's great. The problem is that you have to get past a sea of decrepit housing projects that you can see from miles out to get there. Even just looking at them off the freeway is bizarre and offputting, it's no surprise that people are wigged-out after having to get through a ring of depressing ghetto zone to get to the nice city in the middle.