Detroit

Over the years I have had several friends from Detroit. As a general rule one can assume that if they are my friends, they are good guys. These guys are excellent people. The one thing I don’t understand about people from Detroit is that they think that living in Detroit is one step below living in Gan Eden.

I have only been to Detroit twice, both times for a short amount of time. Detroit is, at best an Average U.S. city. It is dirty, it is freezing in the winter, stifling in the summer, and crime is very high. Not that Baltimore is any better, but I don’t think that people from Baltimore are that fond of their City. Baltimore and Detroit are nice places to live, particularly for frum people, but as cities, they are nothing special.

Here are some crime statistics for 2006 that I pulled from the FBI website.


The nice things I can say about Detroit’s frum community is that they are very nice, friendly, and as a community seem like one big family. They are also serious sports fans.

I just don’t understand the love affair that the people I know from Detroit have with their City. Most of them moved away (to Baltimore, Lakewood, Miami, New York) when they got married anyway. If it is so great, why not settle there?