  Horizonchaser Member Username: Horizonchaser Post Number: 2 Registered: 02-2007 |
I am a Detroit resident and new to this forum. I have read the threads here with great interest and I want to thank everyone who has contributed, it is very interesting to hear feedback about different issues concerning the city. My reasons for posting are 1) to determine if there is a group of actual Detroit residents that access this board, and 2) to submit the idea of a Detroit Residents Association for discussion to them. Can the real Detroiters please stand up? | ||
Steelworker Member Username: Steelworker Post Number: 826 Registered: 02-2004 |
ut oh here we go again | ||
Stecks77 Member Username: Stecks77 Post Number: 274 Registered: 08-2006 |
me - for a few more months at least. | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 657 Registered: 08-2006 |
Not me, I live in a first ring Suburb, but regularly venture into and spend my money in Detroit. I would like to spend more in Detroit as more opportunities present them selves. There is a space somewhere in this forum for those to input where we live if we so choose. | ||
Stecks77 Member Username: Stecks77 Post Number: 275 Registered: 08-2006 |
Cambrian is right. Somebody posted a link to a social networking site that allowed forum users to input basic information about themselves. I forget what it was? | ||
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 501 Registered: 01-2006 |
I'm a resident -- Representing the 48207! | ||
Spaceboykelly Member Username: Spaceboykelly Post Number: 209 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'm a resident of NoCo [North Cass Corridor: maybe that will catch on.] | ||
Thnk2mch Member Username: Thnk2mch Post Number: 757 Registered: 02-2006 |
https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/6790/62672.html | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 638 Registered: 06-2006 |
I'm not really a Detroit resident...but I did stay at a Holliday Inn Express last night... can I still join? | ||
Gtat44 Member Username: Gtat44 Post Number: 15 Registered: 02-2007 |
In MY opinion, and I'm sure only mine.........I grew up in the 48205, the first 8 years of my life lived in the Schoolcraft and Evergreen area. I live in a small farming town in Indiana now. Been here for 3 years circumstances beyond my control. But if you are Detroiter at heart, then you ARE A Resident. You never know where life will lead you..you could end up LIVING there again. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4857 Registered: 11-2003 |
jjaba stays at Corktown Inn, does that count? He walks around Briggs Stadium, longing for the good ole days. He always drives by his old Wrigleys on W. Davison(Greenlawn) and cries. What am I, chopped liver, eh? jjaba, Proudly Westside Bar Mitzvah Bukkor. | ||
Enduro Member Username: Enduro Post Number: 58 Registered: 11-2006 |
In the words of the late, great Redd Foxx: I was born, bread and buttered here. (Rimshot Please) | ||
Reetz12 Member Username: Reetz12 Post Number: 137 Registered: 09-2005 |
48225 northeast side ....here | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 420 Registered: 04-2006 |
In other words, nobody. | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1422 Registered: 04-2005 |
Try the frapper map http://www.frappr.com/detroity es/map not everyone is listed, but it gives a good starting point. | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 658 Registered: 08-2006 |
That wasn't the one I input my info to the last time we did this. Must be a few of these forum member location maps floatin' around. | ||
Horizonchaser Member Username: Horizonchaser Post Number: 3 Registered: 02-2007 |
Hey, thanks to everyone that responded. I escaped the white bread suburbia hell of overindulged children and American Beauty-esque frustration that is Northville and moved downtown (48226) a few months ago and I love it. One thing that is frustrating is that we downtown residents seem to be invisible with no voice. Lots of people from the suburbs seem to have opinions about what Detroit needs and what is wrong with it but no one talks to the people who actually live here. Even at the Detroit Design workshop at the Gem recently an audience member commented with "no one lives in downtown; we are all in midtown." Myself and my neighbors would beg to differ. I have been having discussions with various businesses about opening a grocery store downtown and over and over I get "no one lives there." Actually, we do live here and we all drive to Troy to find a good grocery store. Also, many people seem to be discussing the idea of public transit here but a very limited survey of my neighbors fails to find anyone that would use it. In order for any business to survive in Detroit, it must have the patronage to support it and no one seems to be talking to the people who actually live here hence they are left relying on weekend and sports venue traffic from the suburbs. My initial plan is to develop a Downtown Detroit Residents Association because that is my area of immediate concern and familiarity, but I can entertain the idea of a Detroit Residents Association that is divided into sections that concern themselves with different areas of the city since each neighborhood has special challenges and needs. The Association would tackle the issues and desires that actual residents are concerned with, such as businesses that we need and can support, crime (or perceptions of) issues and give a feeling of community. Also we will address issues that keep people from wanting to live here, fix those problems and solicit people who are likely to live here (like people who work here). We will also identify new businesses in our neighborhood and encourage residents to patronize those businesses (such as the laundry service that was recently inquired about on this board). The reason I am excluding non-Detroiters is, not that I don't love you, but my non-Detroiter friends often have no idea what it is like to actually live right here, right now. But maybe we can find a spot for you guys/gals. We will be an organization of action, not whining and complaining. There will be no paralysis through analysis. We are planning on having the first residents association meeting sometime in March, probably in my loft. The first issue we will tackle is getting a grocery store downtown. Any other ideas from the thoughtful residents on this forum? | ||
Ndavies Member Username: Ndavies Post Number: 2459 Registered: 10-2003 |
There is already a Downtown Detroit Citizen District Council. There are also CDC's for other areas of the city, including Woodbridge, and Corktown. Why don't you look them up instead of trying to create something new? Just because you're new and haven't seen it yet doesn't mean it doesn't already exist. | ||
Chow Member Username: Chow Post Number: 357 Registered: 10-2003 |
I used to live in Detroit. My new home is Warsaw, Poland. | ||
Horizonchaser Member Username: Horizonchaser Post Number: 4 Registered: 02-2007 |
Thanks so much for the info, Ndavies. I have asked and asked around about this, but no one has ever mentioned them. I even contacted the mayor's office and no one mentioned them. I will attempt to find them. | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 1188 Registered: 03-2006 |
I gave up living alone in a free house in SCS to live here | ||
Billybbrew Member Username: Billybbrew Post Number: 244 Registered: 07-2005 |
Claytown 48210 (Message edited by billybbrew on February 22, 2007) | ||
Horizonchaser Member Username: Horizonchaser Post Number: 5 Registered: 02-2007 |
Does anyone know how to contact the Downtown Detroit Citizen District Council? | ||
Docmo Member Username: Docmo Post Number: 233 Registered: 10-2005 |
CBD 48226 | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 683 Registered: 01-2006 |
Detroit 48227, and I hope this is the last DY "where ya live at" poll. | ||
Andylinn Member Username: Andylinn Post Number: 325 Registered: 04-2006 |
cass corridor, what what? | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 3879 Registered: 10-2003 |
CBD 48226 | ||
Korridorkid Member Username: Korridorkid Post Number: 57 Registered: 01-2005 |
The name says it all... Detroit City, Cass Corridor environs. Second and Hancock...48201 The Korridor Kid | ||
Warrenite84 Member Username: Warrenite84 Post Number: 39 Registered: 01-2007 |
Not me, but I visit when I can. | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 8380 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: Therein lies the problem. You have ample grocery stores within a few miles of you and certainly do not need to take your money out of city for things like groceries. FJ (Jeffereson), Honey Bee (Bagley), Harbor Town (Jefferson), Universtiy and Spartan (Warren), Eastern market, Wigleys, Rocky Peanut Company. The only way Detroiters will see more options in Detroit is by spending our dollars in the city. Economic flight has been hurting this city and has been for 40 years. | ||
Imperfectly Member Username: Imperfectly Post Number: 207 Registered: 06-2004 |
yep-48207 Lafayette Park. | ||
Superaygun Member Username: Superaygun Post Number: 555 Registered: 04-2005 |
new Detroit taxpayer here. 48212. | ||
Defendbrooklyn Member Username: Defendbrooklyn Post Number: 12 Registered: 11-2005 |
I grew up on the westside (warren just off of the southfield freeway)..then moved out of state...nyc/ma. now i moved back to ferndale. | ||
Psewick Member Username: Psewick Post Number: 75 Registered: 03-2006 |
Spaceboykelly, I thought "NoCo" already referred to "North Corktown". :P | ||
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 1116 Registered: 01-2004 |
Midtown | ||
Lakesuperior Member Username: Lakesuperior Post Number: 164 Registered: 06-2005 |
midtown... | ||
Vas Member Username: Vas Post Number: 670 Registered: 01-2004 |
me, midtown | ||
Oliverdouglas Member Username: Oliverdouglas Post Number: 72 Registered: 02-2006 |
48221, Green Acres | ||
Detroitrulez Member Username: Detroitrulez Post Number: 153 Registered: 12-2006 |
so around 17 or 18 total. Detroit Representing! | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 666 Registered: 08-2006 |
I like how Lowell compiled the listers demographics in the link by Thnk2much. I wonder how many of us are raising kids? No question that newly developed areas in MidTown, CBD and downtown are attractive to young single professionals, but I'd like to hear the experiences of families with shool age children who decided to move back into Detroit from the burbs. | ||
Scs100 Member Username: Scs100 Post Number: 486 Registered: 12-2006 |
Speaking of the stats, is Lowell going to do one list for 2006? Not that it matters, but it might be interesting to see how things have changed. Grosse Pointe for me, (blagh). | ||
Detroitrulez Member Username: Detroitrulez Post Number: 155 Registered: 12-2006 |
quote: do you mean "shul" age children? Is that a Yiddish thing? JJaba help us out here.... | ||
Nanska Member Username: Nanska Post Number: 70 Registered: 08-2006 |
I've got school age children, and one of the primary reasons we left the City way back when was because of the state of the public school system. Are there any forum members who moved back to the City and are letting their children attend DPS ??? | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 972 Registered: 11-2003 |
Is "real Detroiter" a gradient scale? In other words, is 48226 more real than EEV? If someone lives a block north of 8 Mile do they get points deducted? What if you live in Detroit but work, shop and play in the suburbs? Is that better than the opposite in terms of "real"? | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4874 Registered: 11-2003 |
Shul, see synagogue tour. Shul is a Yiddish word. Now a schul/shul could be inside a school. Jewish day schools have a shul tucked into them. Kids learn to Daven early. jjaba. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1013 Registered: 04-2006 |
I'd agree east Detroit. A real Detroiter pays his resident income taxes, works in the City, knows where all the really good stuff is (not just the trendy BS), rides the bus like he did as a kid, insures his car in the City, was born and raised in the neighborhoods. Heck my grandmother is 95 and was born in Detroit and still lives in Detroit. I would say that has to count for something too. | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 1088 Registered: 11-2005 |
Model D recently did an article on raising kids in Detroit: http://www.modeldmedia.com/fea tures/parents72.aspx | ||
Scs100 Member Username: Scs100 Post Number: 487 Registered: 12-2006 |
Good point East Detroit. Technically, I live about 1/2 a block from Detroit. Does that count? | ||
Jfried Member Username: Jfried Post Number: 937 Registered: 11-2003 |
hey detroitplanner - do you "plan" on continuing to be so obnoxious? oh yeah - home 48201 soon to be 48234 (Message edited by jfried on February 23, 2007) | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1015 Registered: 04-2006 |
If having a contrarian opinion makes one obnoxious, then I will continue to be obnoxious. I'm not going to give up my roots nor my home. | ||
65memories Member Username: 65memories Post Number: 347 Registered: 10-2003 |
Detroit 48223 | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 977 Registered: 11-2003 |
Scs100, just as a Jewish convert... you are a Detroiter if you believe you are and identify yourself and participate as such. | ||
Erikd Member Username: Erikd Post Number: 811 Registered: 10-2003 |
Maintaining Authenticity in the D, and representin' the 48226. Y'all bustas better recognize! | ||
Mackcreative Member Username: Mackcreative Post Number: 38 Registered: 08-2006 |
48208, Woodbridge--moved here with a child, having another. Don't see it as a big deal, there are tons of kids in our neighborhood. | ||
Nanska Member Username: Nanska Post Number: 71 Registered: 08-2006 |
Mackcreative, will you be sending your children to a DPS school???? | ||
Mackcreative Member Username: Mackcreative Post Number: 39 Registered: 08-2006 |
She goes to Detroit Waldorf School in Indian Village | ||
Cheddar_bob Member Username: Cheddar_bob Post Number: 858 Registered: 10-2003 |
Danny defined what a real Detroiter was one time. Lets ask him. | ||
Drm Member Username: Drm Post Number: 1090 Registered: 10-2003 |
Ndavies suggested that Horizonchaser find the Downtown CDC and give up on starting up his/her own group of people, but I would respectfully disagree. While it certainly couldn't hurt, keep in mind that a CDC is merely a group of people that is elected to advise the City Council on certain planning decisions being made in each neighborhood. Although some of the CDCs formerly were funded by the city, had permanent offices and staffs and did take on some community activism type of projects (such as the Corktown CDC), none of them are currently funded, and I know of none that have an office or a staff. The members of the Downtown CDC are likely people that have been around for a while and therefore know lots of people and have a deep commitment to the neighborhood. You should certainly include them in your plans. However, don't worry that you're recreating something that already exists if you decide to start organizing your neighbors to tackle neighborhood problems. If some folks are already working on this but you haven't yet met them, you will soon enough. Until then, don't let that stop you! | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 4825 Registered: 10-2003 |
I'll agree with Ndavies. Why keep trying to reinvent the wheel? Search out the groups already formed, if you find they don't fill your needs or allow you the latitude to expand their mission then strike out and form another group. If nothing else you've met others who share your views. I remember the "preservation" groups formed in the past that covered the same ground but couldn't come together for years due to personal and other reasons, which turned off willing volunteers to both groups. Don't allow egos to get in the way of progress. | ||
Drm Member Username: Drm Post Number: 1091 Registered: 10-2003 |
Jams, I agree with you, but I don't think that Horizonchaser's idea would be reinventing the Downtown CDC. If something like Horizonchaser envisions does exist, it's certainly not the Downtown CDC. | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 4828 Registered: 10-2003 |
Maybe not, but isn't "networking" one of those "keywords"? One of the things that pisses off many of the "old-timers" is the the attitude that of "We'll fix this right away, screw what you've tried in the past". The very sad thing is is there is much support from the "old-timers" to many of the ideas, but to be shunted off to the side sticks in the craw of those, or even worse labelled slum-lords, who were here fighting the good fight when no-one else seemed to listen. Shit, I'm agreeing with 3rd World City. | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 4830 Registered: 10-2003 |
Where is the money to get the message across going to come from? Not to be negative, but when I was on the Board of an organization promoting Detroit supported by an organization giving us major bucks we were the shit, but when those bucks were cut off and we had to work out a "Bake-sale budget" the organization crumbled. No free Tee-shirts = No volunteers. Patience, use the resources in place. | ||
Drm Member Username: Drm Post Number: 1092 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote:Would you care to suggest some "resources in place" for a person like Horizonchaser? Please include contact names/telephone numbers. | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 4833 Registered: 10-2003 |
Not my current interest. When it was, I searched every avenue. Ask so&so, they might know who to ask, and so on and so on... I wish I could give you all the answers, but what was a good resource last year may be a dead end this year. | ||
Drm Member Username: Drm Post Number: 1094 Registered: 10-2003 |
Are you saying that Horizonchaser shouldn't do anything because someone else may or may not be trying to do the same thing? If someone else is actively trying to do good, I would think that both groups could work together once they find each other -- if another group actually exists. Until then, I would encourage Horizonchaser or anyone else to start working on the problems. There are certainly enough to go around. | ||
Eastsidelady Member Username: Eastsidelady Post Number: 4 Registered: 02-2007 |
I live in Detroit. | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 4835 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: Of course not, I encourage activism. I'm just suggesting doing some homework first. | ||
Detroitbill Member Username: Detroitbill Post Number: 162 Registered: 09-2006 |
48207- Lafayette Park here | ||
Krawlspace Member Username: Krawlspace Post Number: 296 Registered: 04-2004 |
48224 for the past 9 1/2 years, formally 48214. Never lived outside the city limits my entire life. | ||
Archinnovator Member Username: Archinnovator Post Number: 15 Registered: 12-2006 |
48221 for the past 4 years. | ||
Ohudson Member Username: Ohudson Post Number: 199 Registered: 09-2004 |
48214, West Village is in da thread! | ||
14509glenfield Member Username: 14509glenfield Post Number: 361 Registered: 05-2006 |
Please don't crucify me. Grew up there. Many memories. Really can't respond to the political/re-birth/deteriorati on of the past 37 or so years, I just add my 2-cents. | ||
Detourdetroit Member Username: Detourdetroit Post Number: 268 Registered: 10-2003 |
Downtown Citizens District Council http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ detroitdowntowncdc/ | ||
Chuckles Member Username: Chuckles Post Number: 40 Registered: 02-2007 |
My sister lives in Detroit does that count ? | ||
Dougw Member Username: Dougw Post Number: 1587 Registered: 11-2003 |
Probably roughly half of the posts on this forum are from people who live in the city of Detroit. (myself included) | ||
Canuckr Member Username: Canuckr Post Number: 50 Registered: 02-2005 |
48226..w00t.. | ||
Eastsidedog Member Username: Eastsidedog Post Number: 938 Registered: 03-2006 |
48214 | ||
Detroit_uke Member Username: Detroit_uke Post Number: 4 Registered: 02-2007 |
Detroit resident - over 50 years! | ||
Horizonchaser Member Username: Horizonchaser Post Number: 6 Registered: 02-2007 |
I can certainly understand your frustration with people taking their dollars out of Detroit, Jt1. In truth, I am at the Eastern Market every Saturday, been there on Saturday mornings with my dad ever since I was a little kid. I love the Market! And Wigglys has some of the best meat around, the corned beef is the best in the city (if I'm cooking it, of course). I buy wine/beer/hard cider exclusively from Tim McCarthy's wine shop in the Eastern Market even if it does cost more. But we probably differ in our definition of grocery store, to me Farmer Jack is mostly aisles & aisles of frozen/packaged processed food, which I avoid, with some poor quality produce that passes for "fresh." Harbourtown has a small corner for fresh fruit & vegetables and not much of a meat counter. The options for fresh food are pretty narrow in the downtown area. There are 9,800 people with a median income of $59,000/yr that live within the highways downtown and 83,000 people that work in the same area, and there is lots of empty retail space down here. You would think a small grocer with a deli counter would love to be down here. Anyway, I appreciate everyone comments but I wasn't just taking a survey of where everyone here lives for the fun of it, I really wanted ways to contact Detroit residents. It would appear that this is not the place to do that, but thanks to everyone who replied. | ||
Rsa Member Username: Rsa Post Number: 1043 Registered: 10-2003 |
lafayette parker, 48207. [i posted since there was a genuine reason for asking, not just a pissing match like the former threads of this title had become.] horizon; you should really check out honey bee market in southwest. i think they'll have everything that you just described. here's an article that i think describes the situation pretty aptly: http://www.modeldmedia.com/fea tures/myths.aspx | ||
Leoqueen Member Username: Leoqueen Post Number: 1518 Registered: 07-2004 |
born in 48238 studied and now work in 48202, currently live in 48207 | ||
Nuclearxwinter Member Username: Nuclearxwinter Post Number: 24 Registered: 11-2005 |
Moved back a couple of weeks ago. Residing in 48216 and loving it...I can walk just a few blocks to get my groceries. No need to travel outside of the city. =) Im glad to be back! | ||
Gambling_man Member Username: Gambling_man Post Number: 984 Registered: 11-2003 |
Horizon, if you want to meet some Detroiters (and non-Detroiters), show up at some of the forum nights you see advertised on this site......Welcome to the forum and hopefully you are a little thick-skinned. Most of the people on this forum prefer to be at least somewhat discrete......for whatever their reasons may be, and I respect that. | ||
Gambling_man Member Username: Gambling_man Post Number: 985 Registered: 11-2003 |
Oh, and I'm in 48226.........That's just the manner in which I prefer to Roll. |
