Originally Posted by
Roody
How can you be so dense? Obviously the people running this project are devoting their LIVES to solving the problems of Detroit. Just getting involved is half the solution. In a place like Detroit, just showing that you care is 1000 times more than what most people do. Sure it might end up to be a waste of time and energy, but you can't know that until you give it an honest shot. If you want a guarantee that your life (or your city) will always be wonderful, and you don't want to work hard to make it so, then Detroit is not the place for you.
If you think California is more than 20 years behind Detroit, you haven't been paying attention to the news lately. If I were you, I wouldn't bother moving to Detroit, but i would start thinking about how some of the SOLUTIONS that people are TRYING in Detroit might help in California too.
Where Detroit is today, that's where many cities will be in less than a generation. This is the general direction our entire society will go if we don't watch out. If solutions are found, they will be found in places like Detroit, by people like the ones working on Spaulding court. That's why people should pay attention to Detroit.
You are missing my point completely. I am not asking from a personal perspective because there would be little or no chance of me moving to some place like Detroit. I am saying it hardly seems like the effort of the specific project the OP posted will address any of the issues that are causing Detroit's decay. The solution has to be more than showing you care it has to be coming up with something that will turn the tide.
I don't understand how this has turned into an emotional issue. A city is just a place where people stay it is not a living thing.