I grew up in Metro Detroit. This guy did not do Detroit justice. There are so many cool buildings and events. Detroit was voted one of the top 50 places to lives in the US in 2024, Detroit's Riverwalk was voted the best in the US 3 years in a row, Campus Martius Park was voted the best Public Space in the US in 2024. There is a reason Detroit is winning all these awards. It would have been better if this guy shot his video during the holidays or around the 4th of July because Detroit puts on the 2nd best fireworks show in the country, on the river between Detroit and Windsor.
Check out other videos of Detroit, especially from the recent NFL draft. Seeing the city in other seasons, full of people, may help you understand what a vibrant place it is!
Sorry. Guy, but I worked in Detroit for 15 years in houses. Insulating, the true fact is, there's only a 2 and a 1/2 square mile area of Detroit that is taking care of the rest is a dump. When it meets the criteria Of the downtown area, then I'll believe you until then you're way wrong.
THIS!!! What a boring and rambling video. He showed 2 restaurants, campus Martius, the people mover and one corner of the River Front. There is SO much more to the city. He also went downtown when it's working hours and the city is quiet. No sports games or events going on. I could do a better job than this. I've been meaning to make a video but this makes me REALLY want to make one.
Love that you reacted to a Detroit video! The city has come a long way and is really cool these days. If you ever visit the area and need a tour guide I got you covered.
I grew up a couple mile from Flint, Mi. Most of Michigan is absolutely beautiful. You are always within 4 miles of a lake anywhere in Michigan. Flint and Detroit are cities. The beauty of Michigan is outside of those cities. And there is an overwhelming amount of beauty here.
I live in Detroit, moved here from North Carolina three years ago, and this is a metro area that feels like a small town. People in Detroit are the kindest and most POLITE people, forget "Southern Hospitality"; northern hospitality starts in Detroit!
@@OrondeBranch Heard the same thing from a coworker that came up from the South office who lives in Western Georgia. She couldn't believe how everyone was so nice. This is the Midwest, it's not NYC or Boston, although in the winter, they might feel similar, the culture is different.
Never put ketchup on a Coney. NEVER! It’s a Detroit tradition. Dog Chili Mustard Onions. I live in this area. Just a block or 2 from the stadiums and concert venues. We were voted best riverwalk in the nation for the past 2 years. We are just a bridge and tunnel from Windsor Canada. We also have our own Island called Belle Isle on the Detroit river.
Detroit Institute Of Art - #1 art museum in the country Campus Martius - #1 outdoor space in the country Detroit Riverwalk - #1 Riverwalk in the country Bakers Keyboard Lounge - Oldest Jazz Club in the WORLD I can go on and on. There’s a reason why Time Magazine voted Detroit one of the 50 greatest places on EARTH and Money Magazine voted Detroit one of the best places to live.
The 2 stadiums are Comerica Park, home of the Detroit Tigers baseball franchise and Ford Field the home of the Detroit Lions (American) football team. Another nearby stadium is the Little Caesars Arena where the Detroit Red Wings (hockey) and Pistons (basketball) play their home games.
Windsor's a pretty cool city. It's one of the warmest cities in Canada, as its the southernmost "major" ish city in the country, the houses are a lot cheaper compared to Toronto, and you can earn USD while living in Canada by working in Detroit. Lots of people live in Windsor and work in Detroit, and vice versa. Windsor is really tied to Detroit culturally, you'll see a huge emphasis on the Auto industry there, and there are more than 90 car/parts manufactures in the city
Michigan is a beautiful State! I moved from Michigan after I graduated from the University of Michigan in 1971 and at that time Detroit was a mess and crime ridden. I watched the NFL teams this past spring choosing college players and it was hosted in Detroit. They broke the record for cities who annually host this event, there was no crime and I was amazed at how much better Detroit looked! The State itself has so many really lovely places and I was in sales and traveled to many States.
People knock Detroit because “only Downtown looks good” but people don’t realize that the rehab of this homes is slowly coming HOWEVER most of the businesses and things to do will be downtown since Detroit is heavily residential. Most single family homes of any large city in the U.S. It’s not made up like a walkable neighborhood where all kinds of businesses are right there in the neighborhood like a NYC. People that live here their whole life don’t realize that. Houses galore….even with a lot of them missing in some neighborhoods.
Showing a video of Detroit in winter doesn't do justice, to the city. The downtown is so different in summer. The city and it's people deserve a reaction to a second video. Thurston my comments are not a criticism of you, only the video. Peace!
Born, raised, and live in a northern burb of Detroit. Yes, Detroit has bad areas, just like every major city in the world. So much more to see and do in Detroit. Police presence in highly populated areas. Never felt scared being down there. My dad was always worried, though. LOL
I've lived on 3rd Street in Flint and 2nd Street in Santa Monica (two verrrrrrrrrrry different sides of American culture). I would rather live in Flint. As a foreigner, I think you need to keep in mind that US media & entertainment run through the coastal cities. The people there set the tone for which cities and states are easy to make the butt of jokes... And trust me, after living on both coasts for years, they know very little of what life and people are like in the midwest 🤣
Born and raised in the Detroit area and I love it here, but there are a couple of misleading things in the video. 1. The People Mover doesn't go very far, so it's only useful if you're going from one part of downtown to another. 2. Ketchup should never go on a Coney dog. 😂
The busiest boarder crossing between the two countries is the Ambassador bridge. The second new brodge is the Gordie Howe bridge. Named after a beloved Canadian who played for the Detroit Reg Wings.
We used to go to Canada a lot…Toronto, Montreal, Niagara Falls, Stratford, Ontario which has an incredible summer Shakespeare festival. You never see the many terrific festivals, beautiful famous Autumns in Michigan. It’s a huge State with an Upper Peninsula as well…surrounded by the Great Lakes.
The riverfront was actually named the #1 in the US for three years in a row. I don't know why he said it was only one of the best. he also didn't show it off as well as he could've as there are much bigger plazas east of where he was, and it keeps getting better every year.
@@Nicholas_Burmeister Midwest winters are drab, so it seems a little silly to me to do a video trying to show off the area at that time of the year. But hey, that's just my opinion.
@@Nicholas_Burmeister It's a winter video on a cloudy day. In the summer there are a ton of people, and he also showed an incredibly small section. The riverfront extends miles.
@@Nicholas_Burmeister Cullen plaza and Hart plaza are both very nice. there's also a new and much larger park being constructed on the other side of those riverfront towers he showed in the video.
Time of day and the season affects how many people are out and about. Across the river is Windsor, Ontario. When I was a kid, the Union Flag of the United Kingdom was the flag you'd see across the river. The Maple Leaf flag only appeared in the mid-60s.
Detroit has a buzz of energy like no other city! Not mentioned either, the MUSIC scene and live shows never stop. This IS Motown after all. There's endless venues... From stadiums, arenas, concert halls, to outdoor amphitheatres, bars, and massive street fairs. The Fox Theater being the crown jewel. (Google pics of it.)
It's so cool and kind of mindblowing seeing you review a video showing areas I am very familiar with! Fun fact: the drinking age in the US is 21, but in Canada it's 19. So, imagine how super convenient it was for my friends and I to have access to legal drinking just a 15 minute drive away! 😅
In Michigan when I was a kid in the 90’s we used to get snow in Nov and it’d stick til Spring but in the last 10 years or so we now just get snow for like a week here and there throughout the winter and it melts then you’ll get a big snow around Feb-Mar.
Detroit is changing and I don't know how I feel about it. A lot of people are moving in from California and New York and they don't have that Detroit blue collar, DIY, working class spirit. But we do need the tax money.
Detroit once had a population of 2,000,000 people. Not only did the "Big 3" American automakers have their headquarters in the area, they also had many factories employing tens of thousands of unionized auto workers. One factor rarely mentioned is that there were hundreds of auto parts manufacturing companies which sold those parts to the Big 3, and the owners of all those auto parts companies made lots and lots of money for themselves. Then everything collapsed when cheaper labor in Mexico and is Asia resulted in, at first, all the parts businesses to relocate outside the USA, followed by some of the manufacturing plants, too. The job situation if Metro Detroit took a huge tumble. Race riots in Detroit convinced some residents to abandon the city, but the biggest factor in the fall of Detroit was the imposition of a 3% resident income tax on individuals and businesses. People and businesses both left in droves for the suburbs, and Detroit's population slowly declined to about 600,000, basically all those who were to old or too poor to move. Think of how many houses and apartments and shops and retail stores ended up vacant and rotting. Same with public schools. Rather than give up, the rich owners of the land and high-rises in the downtown area used their contacts in Washington, D.C. to obtain for Detroit enough grants and tax breaks to fund improvements to the downtown area. It helped that all four major sports teams have their fields and arenas in downtown, which also has three very large casinos now. Downtown does look much improved. But the neighborhoods outside of downtown look horrible, have a perpetual bad illegal drug trade ongoing with lots of theiving addicts, lots of houses burnt out or falling apart from neglect, and is just a huge mess. Downtown is now like an amusement park, and really fun to visit. I think the hope is that prosperity will expand outwards eventually. I hope it does. I was born when my parents lived in a very nice middle class neighborhood on the West Side and remember it fondly, even though my family moved to the suburbs in 1955. The population of the five-county Metro Detroit area is about 5,000,000 now, and some of the suburbs are the wealthiest in the USA. When somebody says "I'm from Detroit" they almost certainly are from one of its suburbs and do not live within the city limits of Detroit.
Detroit is the motor city. We all drive cars. The city was built with driving cars in mind. You don't need public transportation in Detroit, but it's nice that they offer it for those who need it.
I live in Detroit, but I don't want people moving here either. We worked hard to get our city back. We accept visitors tho, lol. After that, you gotta go home 😅😂.
If you’ve only heard of Flint and Detroit, you are not getting a good representation of the state of Michigan. Watch videos about the Great Lakes state… We have everything to offer.
He missed the best parts of the riverfront! What he showed was only a very small part of it, it goes all the way past ren cen and has a lot more to see and do! The city has come a long way from what it was and the guys video didn’t do it justice. Check out some other videos and I’m sure you’ll see what I mean.
I live halfway between Chicago and Detroit, and I go to a lot of concerts. When given a choice, I go to Detroit. Chicago is a great city, but Detroit venues are so gorgeous. Obviously a lot fell to ruin, but the architecture that was preserved is unreal. If anyone needs proof that it was once one of the most prosperous cities on Earth, just tour the Fox Theater or the Masonic Temple. Parking is cheap there too, comparatively. Parking in Chicago is often $50 for events.
I'm surprised he visited when he did. Unless you're from a colder climate, I wouldn't recommend visiting between November and early April. Winters in the Midwest can be really cold, and very gray, even if it's not snowing. I have a coworker from SC who was up here twice in January (LOL), and then came up this past July and she couldn't believe it was the same place. Not only was it obviously warmer, but the trees were full of leaves, the sky was blue with white puffy clouds, and the grass was green. She's coming back next week, and it'll be a completely different experience again, with the leaves changing, warm days and cooler nights.
Those are Coney dogs, not chili dogs. Coney sauce is ground meat (traditionally heart) with Greek spices (not hot chili peppers like southern U.S. chili). If you go to a local restaurant called a Coney Island, they will serve Coney dogs, of course, but also Greek food.
Detroit is so underrated and this video didn’t do it justice. Please, please find a better video on Detroit and react to it. Check out some of the videos from the NFL draft there this year.
OMG! I have been watching your channel for years, and this is the coolest thing! My parents raised me in Florida as Detroit transplants. Since FL went nuts, we all moved back to the Metro Detroit area. After its bankruptcy, pot was legalized, and taxes started coming in. This is a unique area that doesn't have massive natural disasters and is local to the largest freshwater area in the world. Look up Brush Park, The Central Depot, and Book Tower. This place is the new hot spot. House prices are skyrocketing, and younger crowds are moving in and vlogging their experiences. It is really cool to see it come back.
When I was a high school college student, we used to go to Canada on July 4th for fireworks anf watch them across the river against the mirrored GM building. Sleep in the car a bit and drive back when traffic cleared.
The entertainment is a big highlight. From the free music festival to the clasic Fisher theater. not to mention the Detroit symphony ochestra. Of course the art museums are unrivaled in the United States. DIA is literally the best art museum in the country.
The riverwalk is far longer than what's shown. The guy in the video basically showed maybe a couple blocks west of the Joe Louis Arena, which may not even be standing now. The riverwalk extends for miles eastward through downtown all the way to The Aretha Ampitheater (formerly called Chene Park).
Hey Thurston--yeah, chili dogs are good but if you want a real taste of the Southwest, try a Sonoran style hot dog: It consists of a hot dog that is wrapped in bacon and grilled, served on a bolillo-style hot dog bun, and topped with pinto beans, onions, tomatoes, and a variety of additional condiments, often including mayonnaise, mustard, and jalapeño salsa (or guacamole. . . and rather than jalapeño salsa, where I get them they come with a couple of grilled whole jalapeno peppers.)
Detroit has had a rejuvenation of downtown. I am from across the river in Windsor , Canada and downtown windsor is much worse than Detroit now. So many great restaurants and all of the sports venues are now downtown
it is a bummer that the only news that gets out about Michigan is that Detroit "is" super dangerous, and the whole Flint water thing. It's literally got some of the most beautiful locations on planet earth. I live about 2 minutes from Detroit proper, and i love it! there is so much to do and see
That was only the southern beginning of the Riverwalk. It is pretty good with parks and concert venues. Growing up in Detroit, I would often take dates over to Windsor for food or concerts.We did not think we were leaving the country. However, I doubt any Canadian would pretend to be a Michigander. And never put ketchup on a Coney Dog.
That is Canada across the river. Lots of traffic back and forth. This travel piece is in November. Detroit is historic as is the entire St Lawrence/GreatLakes area. Detroit was the richest city in the US until the collapse of the areas' auto plants. Detroit lost millions of people to other states, however, the greater area includes suburbs that sprawl forever. As for a comeback, I would hope it does not consider congesting the area a plus. Summers in the north are better for travelers and this is a very poor video. Flint's water problem was a lesson to everyone everywhere. Water systems in areas that were built a hundred years ago should be constantly checked and our local Environmental Agency was found at fault for leaving the system Flint had and going to the alternate which fouled up the water. It was corrected and all the outlying areas supplied water for Flint in the interim. When a city is dependent on a single industry and that fails, the tax base for infrastructure suffers. Flint was GM dependent.
I work right downtown next to heart plaza over looking the river / Canada. Detroit has been happening for 5 years now. People misunderstand Detroit! Cash is to avoid the CC charges not tax. But tax too😂, We had a mild winter lasted year. You rent the princess for a dinner cruise on lake St. Clair
In the U.S., a merchant is charged 1.5% to 3.5% of the purchase price of the item/service provided to the card holder. By accepting only cash, the merchant gets the full price of the purchase, for which taxes must be paid.
Your explanation, while correct, is a little confusing. The 1.5-3.5% you referred to is charged by the credit card company such as Visa or Mastercard. Actually, the same charge does NOT apply to debit cards so I wonder why they aren't accepted. That is a little more common in the US: Acceptance of debit cards only (or sometimes an extra surcharge for use of credit cards to cover the charge).
I once visited the UK's coastal city of Bangor...it was a rough place...the seediest dive on the wharf. Bangor was populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It's worse than Detroit. LOL LOL LOL!!!
People that talk bad about Detroit have either not been here or have been here in YEARS 😂. The amount of people that I run into that are here for the first time absolutely love it. My Wife said you couldn’t PAY her to move back to NYC 😂
This was a bad view of Detroit He barely showed the water front. It's huge, long & it is very pretty, w/ a huge fountian, scuplters, a pretty park,etc. Didn't show those. Nor did he show any of the beautiful parts the city..lots of them.. beautiful historical homes, bldgs, Greek Town, etc. The water view you're looking at is the Detroit River, and yes, it's that close. There's a bridge and tunnel to WIndsor. Detroit has made a come back in last 20yrs or so yrs; very beautiful and makes me happy, being from Michigan. I also worked downtown for yrs. The NFL draft was here this yr..watch those videos or The Freedom Festival ones. Its held on the river every yr near July of 4th to celebrate the holiday and our friendship, btw Windsor and Detroit. They split he cost of fireworks and shoot them off on barges on river. it's an amazing show and a huge party/carnival on both sides of the river...it's pretty cool. Detroit is definitely underrated and makes me very mad. You can also watch Eminems concert from this yr, He produced & threw an outdoor free concert, with other celebrities..it was also televised and Detroit channels, It was in Cork Town(Irish area) also on the river by bridge..was a great show. Love your videos. Blessed Be ❤😊
I'm old school from Detroit and a lot of out of towners get it mixed up about American Coney Island and Lafayette Coney Island. American Coney Island has some good Coney Dawgs, BUT, Lafayette Coney Island has them FANTASTIC loose burgers... OMG!!! Loose burger is pretty much the Coney dawg without the hotdogs. The seasoned ground beef and chili con/chili dawg sauce..
As a Detroiter, he is not even showing the River Front, lmao it literally is A LOT more than what he shows, he is actually near the end, there are fountains, walking paths, trees, in the spring and summer it is CRAMMED with people playing music, some are dancing, kids playing, its just so sad to see him post a winter one, i mean no one goes outside in 20 F weather come on
He only showed like 0.5% of the riverfront. It's very long and has so much more than the small section he showed, including a very cool park coming in the next few years. Please watch more videos on Detroit, because this one didn't frankly show much.
"Small lake", as in Lake St. Clair? It does look small compared to Huron and Erie, but it is much larger than even the largest lake in the UK. Its width is around 25 miles at its widest point, which is a few miles longer than the part of the English Channel where the Chunnel is located. It is almost the exact size of the city of Hong Kong, or two and a half times the size of the country of Andorra. Detroit and Windsor are separated by just the river, the "small lake" is East-northeast of the Detroit-Windsor crossing. As for the size of the Great Lakes, think more along the lines of the distance from Great Britain to France, and not at the narrowest point like Lake St. Clair, or Great Britain to Ireland at some of the more narrow points in the lakes.
In the first half of the 20th century Detroit was in its heyday. It was considered the wealthiest city in the United States. Why? Because Detroit became the hub of the American auto industry. The Detroit area is surrounded by evidence of great wealth, from the mansions, the private clubs and recreational opportunities, to the parks, lakes, easy access to Canada where many Detroiters had their summer homes. Because of the industrial wealth that Detroit had, during World War II most of the war material (vehicles, tanks, airplanes) was manufactured in the Detroit area. Ford Motor Company produced bombers that they turned out one every 2 1/2 hours. After the war, it was a common belief that Detroit won the war for the Allies because of the industrial might that existed there. At the point that Detroit lost its automobile dominance in the 1960s and 1970s, auto plants closed, neighborhoods became vacant, people moved away to areas where they could make a living, and the wealthy moved out as decay set in. This vlog doesn't even begin to tell the story of what Detroit was and what wealth it had for half a century. Glad to see the many efforts to bring the city back to even just a portion of what it was.
The video shown was terrible. His camera work was poor. The day he chose to video was a poor choice. It was very gray and dim. Being cold, there are few people on the street. The "people mover" is not a mass transit system. It makes a loop on an elevated rail around the downtown area. The River Walk is much more scenic and green than the video shows. He could have shown many more interesting places in the downtown area. Altogether, the video was not very good and did not represent the city well.
Even though I’m originally from Southern Illinois, I’ve never been to Detroit Michigan and now live in Colorado but im even though I’m originally from Southern Illinois, I’ve never been to Detroit Michigan and now live in Colorado, but I’ll be going there next month and I’m really looking forward to checking it out. Any good restaurant suggestions or good weed suggestions would be appreciated lol
Also around the Grosse pointe area are gigantic mansions super beautiful right off that lake st Claire you were looking at while searching how close Canada is! 😊
My chief impression, never having been there, is to wonder where all the people were. Everything seems empty. And given how cold it was and the fact you could ride the people mover all day for $0.75 (or free if you just didn't pay), I'm wondering why it wasn't full of homeless people sleeping and/or getting warm. Or is Detroit just too cold to have homeless people (they all make their way to California where it's warm(ish) all year round.) And the sidewalks and even the "Coney" restaurants seemed empty.
He is not showing you the Detroit river front. He is showing you the much smaller, greener, Windsor riverfront across the river. In this case- Canada is south of the USA
I'm sorry this video did not do justice to all of the uniqueness of Detroit. Where was Belle Isle, where was the fabulous theaters. The Ren Sen complex , Eastern Market ???? Anyone else agree with me.
Forget Flint. The couple years Flint water was at its worst - there were 17 cities in Pennsylvania with worse lead levels in children. But that is an ongoing situation, not a sudden one so it doesn't get all the press and hysteria. Just gets overlooked.
This winter. It is much prettier in the summer . Hes there at a time everyone is working. Gibthere during a game. Or when two aree going on at thebsame time. Setroit is beautiful
Detroit's suffered so long from having grown on top of a huge economic bubble: American industrialization. The East Coast states put so much raw manufacturing there and nearby in the early 20th century that a heavy industry like automotive saw it as a no-brainer to be there. But as the US went postindustrial, the advantages of the location faded and collapsed. People just evaporated into the rest of the country, leaving behind a mid-sized town with big city infrastructure and problems. But it's coming back now because other industries have continued to grow organically. Industries that are there for local reasons rather than macroeconomic ones that could wipe them out.
Some Canadians from Windsor come over to work in Detroit. Most Detroit people don't even bother going over to Canada because it's a foreign Country and crossing the border isn't as easy as it used be for every (especially if you're Black)! But CANADA is really nice, like Toronto and Montreal, and almost crime free. But the country isn't perfect.....
I grew up in Metro Detroit. This guy did not do Detroit justice. There are so many cool buildings and events. Detroit was voted one of the top 50 places to lives in the US in 2024, Detroit's Riverwalk was voted the best in the US 3 years in a row, Campus Martius Park was voted the best Public Space in the US in 2024. There is a reason Detroit is winning all these awards. It would have been better if this guy shot his video during the holidays or around the 4th of July because Detroit puts on the 2nd best fireworks show in the country, on the river between Detroit and Windsor.
I live in Windsor. Detroit is awesome!
Check out other videos of Detroit, especially from the recent NFL draft. Seeing the city in other seasons, full of people, may help you understand what a vibrant place it is!
Sorry.
Guy, but I worked in Detroit for 15 years in houses. Insulating, the true fact is, there's only a 2 and a 1/2 square mile area of Detroit that is taking care of the rest is a dump.
When it meets the criteria Of the downtown area, then I'll believe you until then you're way wrong.
Probably the worst tour of detroit you could have clicked on honestly lmao he didn't travel or show much AT ALL.... at all lol
Well, which video should show the best side of Detroit?
@@frankisfunny2007 Life of Reilly, Eileen Aldis and Viewcation have way better tours.
THIS!!! What a boring and rambling video. He showed 2 restaurants, campus Martius, the people mover and one corner of the River Front. There is SO much more to the city. He also went downtown when it's working hours and the city is quiet. No sports games or events going on. I could do a better job than this. I've been meaning to make a video but this makes me REALLY want to make one.
@@frankisfunny2007 A much better (& more accurate) video of Detroit: “I went to Detroit” by Andy To
He should have gone on a weekend day or during sporting events or summer…anything but what he did.
Love that you reacted to a Detroit video! The city has come a long way and is really cool these days. If you ever visit the area and need a tour guide I got you covered.
I grew up a couple mile from Flint, Mi. Most of Michigan is absolutely beautiful. You are always within 4 miles of a lake anywhere in Michigan. Flint and Detroit are cities. The beauty of Michigan is outside of those cities. And there is an overwhelming amount of beauty here.
I live in Detroit, moved here from North Carolina three years ago, and this is a metro area that feels like a small town. People in Detroit are the kindest and most POLITE people, forget "Southern Hospitality"; northern hospitality starts in Detroit!
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@@chrismcbride4839where you live bro? Not the D and if do you must be surrounded by let’s say……undesirables 😂.
First time my Wife came to see me when we first started dating she was shocked by how kind everybody was. She was used to the East Coast.
@@OrondeBranch Heard the same thing from a coworker that came up from the South office who lives in Western Georgia. She couldn't believe how everyone was so nice. This is the Midwest, it's not NYC or Boston, although in the winter, they might feel similar, the culture is different.
Never put ketchup on a Coney. NEVER! It’s a Detroit tradition. Dog Chili Mustard Onions. I live in this area. Just a block or 2 from the stadiums and concert venues. We were voted best riverwalk in the nation for the past 2 years. We are just a bridge and tunnel from Windsor Canada. We also have our own Island called Belle Isle on the Detroit river.
Coney isn't a chili dog.
@ Yes it is.
@@omberose There should be no chilis in Coney sauce. It's a beef sauce.
@ Obviously you’re not from here.
@@omberose Born and raised.
Fun fact , Detroit in the 40's and 50's was the richest city in the world
Detroit Institute Of Art - #1 art museum in the country
Campus Martius - #1 outdoor space in the country
Detroit Riverwalk - #1 Riverwalk in the country
Bakers Keyboard Lounge - Oldest Jazz Club in the WORLD
I can go on and on. There’s a reason why Time Magazine voted Detroit one of the 50 greatest places on EARTH and Money Magazine voted Detroit one of the best places to live.
Must have onions and mustard on a coney.
The 2 stadiums are Comerica Park, home of the Detroit Tigers baseball franchise and Ford Field the home of the Detroit Lions (American) football team. Another nearby stadium is the Little Caesars Arena where the Detroit Red Wings (hockey) and Pistons (basketball) play their home games.
Windsor's a pretty cool city. It's one of the warmest cities in Canada, as its the southernmost "major" ish city in the country, the houses are a lot cheaper compared to Toronto, and you can earn USD while living in Canada by working in Detroit. Lots of people live in Windsor and work in Detroit, and vice versa. Windsor is really tied to Detroit culturally, you'll see a huge emphasis on the Auto industry there, and there are more than 90 car/parts manufactures in the city
Windsor is actually south of Detroit!
As a resident of the metro area this is nice to hear, though we’ve known about it for some time now
9:48 southern Michigan sees less snow every passing year, on Christmas the last 2 years there wasn't even any snow here.
If you go due south from Detroit you enter Canada
Michigan is a beautiful State! I moved from Michigan after I graduated from the University of Michigan in 1971 and at that time Detroit was a mess and crime ridden. I watched the NFL teams this past spring choosing college players and it was hosted in Detroit. They broke the record for cities who annually host this event, there was no crime and I was amazed at how much better Detroit looked! The State itself has so many really lovely places and I was in sales and traveled to many States.
People knock Detroit because “only Downtown looks good” but people don’t realize that the rehab of this homes is slowly coming HOWEVER most of the businesses and things to do will be downtown since Detroit is heavily residential. Most single family homes of any large city in the U.S. It’s not made up like a walkable neighborhood where all kinds of businesses are right there in the neighborhood like a NYC. People that live here their whole life don’t realize that. Houses galore….even with a lot of them missing in some neighborhoods.
Showing a video of Detroit in winter doesn't do justice, to the city. The downtown is so different in summer. The city and it's people deserve a reaction to a second video. Thurston my comments are not a criticism of you, only the video. Peace!
NEVER NEVER NEVER put ketchup on a detroit coney and no onions ? its now just a hot dog with chili
Coney sauce isn't a chili sauce anyway. It's a meat sauce, no chilis.
Born, raised, and live in a northern burb of Detroit. Yes, Detroit has bad areas, just like every major city in the world. So much more to see and do in Detroit. Police presence in highly populated areas. Never felt scared being down there. My dad was always worried, though. LOL
Same here. Never once have I felt unsafe when I’ve been downtown.
I've lived on 3rd Street in Flint and 2nd Street in Santa Monica (two verrrrrrrrrrry different sides of American culture). I would rather live in Flint.
As a foreigner, I think you need to keep in mind that US media & entertainment run through the coastal cities. The people there set the tone for which cities and states are easy to make the butt of jokes... And trust me, after living on both coasts for years, they know very little of what life and people are like in the midwest 🤣
Born and raised in the Detroit area and I love it here, but there are a couple of misleading things in the video.
1. The People Mover doesn't go very far, so it's only useful if you're going from one part of downtown to another.
2. Ketchup should never go on a Coney dog. 😂
The busiest boarder crossing between the two countries is the Ambassador bridge. The second new brodge is the Gordie Howe bridge. Named after a beloved Canadian who played for the Detroit Reg Wings.
You should see the River Front in the summer and downtown
Riverwalk looks way better in spring/summer. He didn't show the beautiful theaters in Detroit.
"Detroit is a city that I always hear gets such a bad rep. Rightly so I assume".
WOW! That is a crazy statement.
Definitely for someone that has never been here. It’s sad
We used to go to Canada a lot…Toronto, Montreal, Niagara Falls, Stratford, Ontario which has an incredible summer Shakespeare festival. You never see the many terrific festivals, beautiful famous Autumns in Michigan. It’s a huge State with an Upper Peninsula as well…surrounded by the Great Lakes.
The riverfront was actually named the #1 in the US for three years in a row. I don't know why he said it was only one of the best. he also didn't show it off as well as he could've as there are much bigger plazas east of where he was, and it keeps getting better every year.
Really? It looks absolutely drab.
@@Nicholas_Burmeister Midwest winters are drab, so it seems a little silly to me to do a video trying to show off the area at that time of the year. But hey, that's just my opinion.
@@Nicholas_BurmeisterThere are bike paths, parks, docks and amphitheaters along the riverfront.
@@Nicholas_Burmeister It's a winter video on a cloudy day. In the summer there are a ton of people, and he also showed an incredibly small section. The riverfront extends miles.
@@Nicholas_Burmeister Cullen plaza and Hart plaza are both very nice. there's also a new and much larger park being constructed on the other side of those riverfront towers he showed in the video.
Time of day and the season affects how many people are out and about. Across the river is Windsor, Ontario. When I was a kid, the Union Flag of the United Kingdom was the flag you'd see across the river. The Maple Leaf flag only appeared in the mid-60s.
We are coming back!
That area across the river is Canada
The Joe Lewis Arena is no longer standing. The red wings are now in Little Caesar’s Arena
Detroit has a buzz of energy like no other city! Not mentioned either, the MUSIC scene and live shows never stop. This IS Motown after all. There's endless venues... From stadiums, arenas, concert halls, to outdoor amphitheatres, bars, and massive street fairs. The Fox Theater being the crown jewel. (Google pics of it.)
It's so cool and kind of mindblowing seeing you review a video showing areas I am very familiar with! Fun fact: the drinking age in the US is 21, but in Canada it's 19. So, imagine how super convenient it was for my friends and I to have access to legal drinking just a 15 minute drive away! 😅
In Michigan when I was a kid in the 90’s we used to get snow in Nov and it’d stick til Spring but in the last 10 years or so we now just get snow for like a week here and there throughout the winter and it melts then you’ll get a big snow around Feb-Mar.
Lets go tour the river front during the worst part of the year in Michigan
Detroit is changing and I don't know how I feel about it. A lot of people are moving in from California and New York and they don't have that Detroit blue collar, DIY, working class spirit. But we do need the tax money.
Detroit once had a population of 2,000,000 people. Not only did the "Big 3" American automakers have their headquarters in the area, they also had many factories employing tens of thousands of unionized auto workers. One factor rarely mentioned is that there were hundreds of auto parts manufacturing companies which sold those parts to the Big 3, and the owners of all those auto parts companies made lots and lots of money for themselves. Then everything collapsed when cheaper labor in Mexico and is Asia resulted in, at first, all the parts businesses to relocate outside the USA, followed by some of the manufacturing plants, too. The job situation if Metro Detroit took a huge tumble. Race riots in Detroit convinced some residents to abandon the city, but the biggest factor in the fall of Detroit was the imposition of a 3% resident income tax on individuals and businesses. People and businesses both left in droves for the suburbs, and Detroit's population slowly declined to about 600,000, basically all those who were to old or too poor to move. Think of how many houses and apartments and shops and retail stores ended up vacant and rotting. Same with public schools.
Rather than give up, the rich owners of the land and high-rises in the downtown area used their contacts in Washington, D.C. to obtain for Detroit enough grants and tax breaks to fund improvements to the downtown area. It helped that all four major sports teams have their fields and arenas in downtown, which also has three very large casinos now. Downtown does look much improved. But the neighborhoods outside of downtown look horrible, have a perpetual bad illegal drug trade ongoing with lots of theiving addicts, lots of houses burnt out or falling apart from neglect, and is just a huge mess. Downtown is now like an amusement park, and really fun to visit. I think the hope is that prosperity will expand outwards eventually. I hope it does. I was born when my parents lived in a very nice middle class neighborhood on the West Side and remember it fondly, even though my family moved to the suburbs in 1955.
The population of the five-county Metro Detroit area is about 5,000,000 now, and some of the suburbs are the wealthiest in the USA. When somebody says "I'm from Detroit" they almost certainly are from one of its suburbs and do not live within the city limits of Detroit.
That's actually pretty cheap for parking compared to many major cities around the country.
Yes, Detroit and Windsor are that close. There are people who commute to work from both sides either over the bridge or through the tunnel.
You have to go to the Riverwalk in the summer!
Detroit is the motor city. We all drive cars. The city was built with driving cars in mind. You don't need public transportation in Detroit, but it's nice that they offer it for those who need it.
Nahhhh we do need it. Mass Transit makes life so much easier. To need a car for the simplest things is too much.
I live in Detroit, but I don't want people moving here either. We worked hard to get our city back. We accept visitors tho, lol. After that, you gotta go home 😅😂.
If this is a complaint on illegals and people getting in with little to none background check I agree.
@@Ding0Dog18 Hell yea
@Ding0Dog18 NO..its.for people who wrote Detroit off...
If you’ve only heard of Flint and Detroit, you are not getting a good representation of the state of Michigan. Watch videos about the Great Lakes state… We have everything to offer.
He missed the best parts of the riverfront! What he showed was only a very small part of it, it goes all the way past ren cen and has a lot more to see and do! The city has come a long way from what it was and the guys video didn’t do it justice. Check out some other videos and I’m sure you’ll see what I mean.
Ford field is for the Lions
I live halfway between Chicago and Detroit, and I go to a lot of concerts. When given a choice, I go to Detroit. Chicago is a great city, but Detroit venues are so gorgeous. Obviously a lot fell to ruin, but the architecture that was preserved is unreal. If anyone needs proof that it was once one of the most prosperous cities on Earth, just tour the Fox Theater or the Masonic Temple.
Parking is cheap there too, comparatively. Parking in Chicago is often $50 for events.
You have to check out Detroits central station it’s a a train station built in 1913 that was vandalized, before it got a $1 billion renovation
I'm surprised he visited when he did. Unless you're from a colder climate, I wouldn't recommend visiting between November and early April. Winters in the Midwest can be really cold, and very gray, even if it's not snowing. I have a coworker from SC who was up here twice in January (LOL), and then came up this past July and she couldn't believe it was the same place. Not only was it obviously warmer, but the trees were full of leaves, the sky was blue with white puffy clouds, and the grass was green. She's coming back next week, and it'll be a completely different experience again, with the leaves changing, warm days and cooler nights.
Those are Coney dogs, not chili dogs. Coney sauce is ground meat (traditionally heart) with Greek spices (not hot chili peppers like southern U.S. chili). If you go to a local restaurant called a Coney Island, they will serve Coney dogs, of course, but also Greek food.
Detroit is so underrated and this video didn’t do it justice. Please, please find a better video on Detroit and react to it. Check out some of the videos from the NFL draft there this year.
Thats Windsor Canada across the river
The water usually looks more blue, but it’s reflecting the gray/white clouds. Detroits comeback is a slow process building by building each year.
OMG! I have been watching your channel for years, and this is the coolest thing! My parents raised me in Florida as Detroit transplants. Since FL went nuts, we all moved back to the Metro Detroit area. After its bankruptcy, pot was legalized, and taxes started coming in. This is a unique area that doesn't have massive natural disasters and is local to the largest freshwater area in the world. Look up Brush Park, The Central Depot, and Book Tower. This place is the new hot spot. House prices are skyrocketing, and younger crowds are moving in and vlogging their experiences. It is really cool to see it come back.
Come visit!!
When I was a high school college student, we used to go to Canada on July 4th for fireworks anf watch them across the river against the mirrored GM building. Sleep in the car a bit and drive back when traffic cleared.
The entertainment is a big highlight. From the free music festival to the clasic Fisher theater. not to mention the Detroit symphony ochestra. Of course the art museums are unrivaled in the United States. DIA is literally the best art museum in the country.
Blue collar kingdom!
The riverwalk is far longer than what's shown. The guy in the video basically showed maybe a couple blocks west of the Joe Louis Arena, which may not even be standing now. The riverwalk extends for miles eastward through downtown all the way to The Aretha Ampitheater (formerly called Chene Park).
Hey Thurston--yeah, chili dogs are good but if you want a real taste of the Southwest, try a Sonoran style hot dog: It consists of a hot dog that is wrapped in bacon and grilled, served on a bolillo-style hot dog bun, and topped with pinto beans, onions, tomatoes, and a variety of additional condiments, often including mayonnaise, mustard, and jalapeño salsa (or guacamole. . . and rather than jalapeño salsa, where I get them they come with a couple of grilled whole jalapeno peppers.)
The covered stadium is where the Lions play.
Detroit has had a rejuvenation of downtown. I am from across the river in Windsor , Canada and downtown windsor is much worse than Detroit now. So many great restaurants and all of the sports venues are now downtown
it is a bummer that the only news that gets out about Michigan is that Detroit "is" super dangerous, and the whole Flint water thing. It's literally got some of the most beautiful locations on planet earth. I live about 2 minutes from Detroit proper, and i love it! there is so much to do and see
That was only the southern beginning of the Riverwalk. It is pretty good with parks and concert venues. Growing up in Detroit, I would often take dates over to Windsor for food or concerts.We did not think we were leaving the country. However, I doubt any Canadian would pretend to be a Michigander. And never put ketchup on a Coney Dog.
That is Canada across the river. Lots of traffic back and forth. This travel piece is in November. Detroit is historic as is the entire St Lawrence/GreatLakes area. Detroit was the richest city in the US until the collapse of the areas' auto plants. Detroit lost millions of people to other states, however, the greater area includes suburbs that sprawl forever. As for a comeback, I would hope it does not consider congesting the area a plus. Summers in the north are better for travelers and this is a very poor video.
Flint's water problem was a lesson to everyone everywhere. Water systems in areas that were built a hundred years ago should be constantly checked and our local Environmental Agency was found at fault for leaving the system Flint had and going to the alternate which fouled up the water. It was corrected and all the outlying areas supplied water for Flint in the interim. When a city is dependent on a single industry and that fails, the tax base for infrastructure suffers. Flint was GM dependent.
No it's Canada like he said on the other side of the river.
I work right downtown next to heart plaza over looking the river / Canada. Detroit has been happening for 5 years now. People misunderstand Detroit! Cash is to avoid the CC charges not tax. But tax too😂, We had a mild winter lasted year. You rent the princess for a dinner cruise on lake St. Clair
In the U.S., a merchant is charged 1.5% to 3.5% of the purchase price of the item/service provided to the card holder. By accepting only cash, the merchant gets the full price of the purchase, for which taxes must be paid.
Your explanation, while correct, is a little confusing. The 1.5-3.5% you referred to is charged by the credit card company such as Visa or Mastercard. Actually, the same charge does NOT apply to debit cards so I wonder why they aren't accepted. That is a little more common in the US: Acceptance of debit cards only (or sometimes an extra surcharge for use of credit cards to cover the charge).
You need a tour on mid 90s Detroit. It was wild. One of the first times I was downtown I saw a guy get his head caved in with a tire iron. I was 16.
I once visited the UK's coastal city of Bangor...it was a rough place...the seediest dive on the wharf. Bangor was populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It's worse than Detroit. LOL LOL LOL!!!
People that talk bad about Detroit have either not been here or have been here in YEARS 😂. The amount of people that I run into that are here for the first time absolutely love it. My Wife said you couldn’t PAY her to move back to NYC 😂
I wish he would have shown Hart Plaza, fountain, Ren Cen, Riverwalk heading east, Belle Isle...
This was a bad view of Detroit
He barely showed the water front. It's huge, long & it is very pretty, w/ a huge fountian, scuplters, a pretty park,etc. Didn't show those. Nor did he show any of the beautiful parts the city..lots of them.. beautiful historical homes, bldgs, Greek Town, etc. The water view you're looking at is the Detroit River, and yes, it's that close. There's a bridge and tunnel to WIndsor. Detroit has made a come back in last 20yrs or so yrs; very beautiful and makes me happy, being from Michigan. I also worked downtown for yrs. The NFL draft was here this yr..watch those videos or The Freedom Festival ones. Its held on the river every yr near July of 4th to celebrate the holiday and our friendship, btw Windsor and Detroit. They split he cost of fireworks and shoot them off on barges on river. it's an amazing show and a huge party/carnival on both sides of the river...it's pretty cool.
Detroit is definitely underrated and makes me very mad. You can also watch Eminems concert from this yr, He produced & threw an outdoor free concert, with other celebrities..it was also televised and Detroit channels, It was in Cork Town(Irish area) also on the river by bridge..was a great show.
Love your videos.
Blessed Be ❤😊
Ketchup on a coney?! Absolutely not. 😒😳
I'm old school from Detroit and a lot of out of towners get it mixed up about American Coney Island and Lafayette Coney Island.
American Coney Island has some good Coney Dawgs,
BUT,
Lafayette Coney Island has them FANTASTIC loose burgers... OMG!!!
Loose burger is pretty much the Coney dawg without the hotdogs. The seasoned ground beef and chili con/chili dawg sauce..
As I understand it, both LaFayette and American, are owned by the same group now.
As a Detroiter, he is not even showing the River Front, lmao it literally is A LOT more than what he shows, he is actually near the end, there are fountains, walking paths, trees, in the spring and summer it is CRAMMED with people playing music, some are dancing, kids playing, its just so sad to see him post a winter one, i mean no one goes outside in 20 F weather come on
Yea, you gotta react to the Detroit NFL Draft it was nice. We had more attendees than anyone ever hosted ever!
the 2 coney islands he was at btw. were started by 2 brothers who were rivals
He only showed like 0.5% of the riverfront. It's very long and has so much more than the small section he showed, including a very cool park coming in the next few years. Please watch more videos on Detroit, because this one didn't frankly show much.
"Small lake", as in Lake St. Clair? It does look small compared to Huron and Erie, but it is much larger than even the largest lake in the UK. Its width is around 25 miles at its widest point, which is a few miles longer than the part of the English Channel where the Chunnel is located. It is almost the exact size of the city of Hong Kong, or two and a half times the size of the country of Andorra. Detroit and Windsor are separated by just the river, the "small lake" is East-northeast of the Detroit-Windsor crossing. As for the size of the Great Lakes, think more along the lines of the distance from Great Britain to France, and not at the narrowest point like Lake St. Clair, or Great Britain to Ireland at some of the more narrow points in the lakes.
In the first half of the 20th century Detroit was in its heyday. It was considered the wealthiest city in the United States. Why? Because Detroit became the hub of the American auto industry. The Detroit area is surrounded by evidence of great wealth, from the mansions, the private clubs and recreational opportunities, to the parks, lakes, easy access to Canada where many Detroiters had their summer homes. Because of the industrial wealth that Detroit had, during World War II most of the war material (vehicles, tanks, airplanes) was manufactured in the Detroit area. Ford Motor Company produced bombers that they turned out one every 2 1/2 hours. After the war, it was a common belief that Detroit won the war for the Allies because of the industrial might that existed there. At the point that Detroit lost its automobile dominance in the 1960s and 1970s, auto plants closed, neighborhoods became vacant, people moved away to areas where they could make a living, and the wealthy moved out as decay set in. This vlog doesn't even begin to tell the story of what Detroit was and what wealth it had for half a century. Glad to see the many efforts to bring the city back to even just a portion of what it was.
Not sure what is worse; the fact he put ketchup on a coney dog or saying Ernest and Young.
The video shown was terrible. His camera work was poor. The day he chose to video was a poor choice. It was very gray and dim. Being cold, there are few people on the street. The "people mover" is not a mass transit system. It makes a loop on an elevated rail around the downtown area. The River Walk is much more scenic and green than the video shows. He could have shown many more interesting places in the downtown area.
Altogether, the video was not very good and did not represent the city well.
Downtown Detroit is more an event driven area. There’s not a lot to draw visitors on an average day. Its days as a shopping destination are long past.
Even though I’m originally from Southern Illinois, I’ve never been to Detroit Michigan and now live in Colorado but im even though I’m originally from Southern Illinois, I’ve never been to Detroit Michigan and now live in Colorado, but I’ll be going there next month and I’m really looking forward to checking it out. Any good restaurant suggestions or good weed suggestions would be appreciated lol
Also around the Grosse pointe area are gigantic mansions super beautiful right off that lake st Claire you were looking at while searching how close Canada is! 😊
ketchup on a coney is CRIMINAL
My chief impression, never having been there, is to wonder where all the people were. Everything seems empty. And given how cold it was and the fact you could ride the people mover all day for $0.75 (or free if you just didn't pay), I'm wondering why it wasn't full of homeless people sleeping and/or getting warm. Or is Detroit just too cold to have homeless people (they all make their way to California where it's warm(ish) all year round.) And the sidewalks and even the "Coney" restaurants seemed empty.
Downtown Los Angeles is around $25 per day , $10 after 2pm-5pm (Depending on lot of course) and there are monthly rates for regulars.
As someone who has lived in Michigan my whole life I can say Detroit isn't that bad in some places. The Filmore is my favorite thing about it.
He is not showing you the Detroit river front. He is showing you the much smaller, greener, Windsor riverfront across the river. In this case- Canada is south of the USA
Downtown Detroit has pockets of great night spots, and great food. The rest of the city is in dire need of help.
I'm sorry this video did not do justice to all of the uniqueness of Detroit. Where was Belle Isle, where was the fabulous theaters. The Ren Sen complex , Eastern Market ???? Anyone else agree with me.
Forget Flint. The couple years Flint water was at its worst - there were 17 cities in Pennsylvania with worse lead levels in children. But that is an ongoing situation, not a sudden one so it doesn't get all the press and hysteria. Just gets overlooked.
Detroit is soooooo underrated !!
This winter. It is much prettier in the summer . Hes there at a time everyone is working. Gibthere during a game. Or when two aree going on at thebsame time. Setroit is beautiful
Detroit's suffered so long from having grown on top of a huge economic bubble: American industrialization. The East Coast states put so much raw manufacturing there and nearby in the early 20th century that a heavy industry like automotive saw it as a no-brainer to be there. But as the US went postindustrial, the advantages of the location faded and collapsed. People just evaporated into the rest of the country, leaving behind a mid-sized town with big city infrastructure and problems.
But it's coming back now because other industries have continued to grow organically. Industries that are there for local reasons rather than macroeconomic ones that could wipe them out.
Some Canadians from Windsor come over to work in Detroit. Most Detroit people don't even bother going over to Canada because it's a foreign Country and crossing the border isn't as easy as it used be for every (especially if you're Black)! But CANADA is really nice, like Toronto and Montreal, and almost crime free. But the country isn't perfect.....
The buildings you were seeing from the tram on the Detroit waterfront were in Windsor, Canada. I'm not sold on Detroit.