A hipster website known as Thrillist.com has published a
piece that has to be labeled as some of the nastiest snark ever written about Detroit –
without actually talking about the inner city.
The story by Nicole Rupersburg, who is apparently a restaurant
critic of some kind, identifies those Detroit suburbs that “suck.” In all, she
takes a few shots at 56 different suburban communities. Yes, not very discerning.Ferndale, Royal Oak, Troy, Grosse Pointe Park, Dearborn, Northville, Novi and Taylor all make the list of the worst suburbs in Metro Detroit.
But some of the most biting commentary is aimed at Macomb County
communities:
Eastpointe
Technically, Eastpointe was, once upon a time, East Detroit. But
they changed their name to disassociate themselves with Detroit's bad
reputation, and then managed to get even crappier. No one WANTS to live in
Eastpointe. They just do. For reasons.
Roseville
Look, if you can get past all of the drug-addled redneck
neighbors, vandalizations, car thefts, break-ins, sexual assaults, and
occasional stabbings, Roseville isn't so bad...
St.
Clair Shores
This is a blue-collar boat town if ever there was one.
Michiganders love them some boats, and when you live in such close proximity to
Lake St. Clair, it's pretty much mandatory that you own one. (Or at least a
couple of jet skis.) St. Clair Shores has all the amenities of lakeshore life
with none of the lakeside residential living -- instead, the shoreline is
dominated by marinas and remarkably bad restaurants -- meaning it's still
affordable to live there AND you get claim lake views. Basically, it's a
low-rent version of waterfront living. We mean "low-rent" in that bad
way.
Warren
Home of much-loved local breweries, the General Motors Tech
Center, Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant, and the highest concentration of strip
clubs this side of 8 Mile. Also, where Eminem actually grew up. And that is
everything you need to know about Warren.
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I’m just waiting for Warren Mayor Jim Fouts to respond in his
usual faux outrage. Maybe he’ll file a lawsuit. Or maybe he’ll add a designated
date to the city calendar (the one that has about 30 photos of him, because he’s
so photogenic) by creating an official Anti-Rupersburg Day.
For one thing, Warren doesn't have any strip clubs, so you can see how much research this writer did, almost as much as Chad usually does for his columns and articles.
ReplyDeleteI agree about the Mayor of Warren, he needs to go away, and he needs to go away soon.