DETROIT -- YES (aka, Ruins of Detroit)
We grew up in Cleveland -- the Mistake on the Lake where the Cuyahoga River was so poluted, it caught fire when we were five years old.
No matter how many jobs left, no matter how many neighborhoods decayed and no matter how many games the hapless Indians baseball club lost, we could always make fun of our neighbors to the northwest -- Detroit.
Motown, once the 4th largest city in the U.S., has been on a downward spiral for nearly half a century.
The ironic part is, when we were fresh out of college, we tossed aside our parents' love of the 'burbs and fell deeply in love with cities -- warts and all.
Our eyes opened to a Motor City filled with brilliant skyscrapers, proud institutions and lovely old brick houses.
Sadly, most of them were dying then and even more have been abandoned or demolished by now.
The fabulous ruins of Detroit or chronicled in this website:
http://detroityes.com/home.htm
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