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- Walking downtown Detroit at night. Explore the Greektown Hollywood Casino area on a Friday night. The city vibe is bumping with cheerful crowds, loud motorcycles and busy restaurants. Enjoy the ride.
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So cool to see Detroit in real life. It gets smeared by the media so much that it's hard to get an idea of what it's really like. This is great.
Thanks for watching. I'm glad to have captured this vibe. Streets were clean and everyone seemed to be having a good time.
This is just the small downtown area that has been renovated. I want to see the rest of the city whose houses were abandoned and looked like they were devastated by bombings when I was there 25 years ago.
two blocks from here it turns into a nuclear holocaust
@@mxblyxky Dont know what your talking about, as much of downtown detroit has been rejuvenated!
@@OrganNLou Did not understand? I was clear. I want to see if the rest of the city has been rejuvenated too. This was not shown. The classic image is houses in ruins and poor people roaming around.
I'm from Tampa Florida and I've been to Detroit five times in the last year. I'm absolutely love with this city.
What do you usually do in Detroit. I'm looking for recommendations
@@voyagerw - in the summer time, the Riverwalk is a must, ideally at lunchtime on a weekday.
Also, Greenfield Village, though not in Detroit proper is a world class museum and experience.
@@voyagerw all southern Michigan kids take a field trip to Greenfield Village and Ford Auto Plant as a kid. Worth going if you want an authentic Michigander experience.
Are you thirsty for your life?
I live in London Uk and always wanted to visit Detroit lobe these walks
Thanks for watching. Come visit Detroit!
We would love to have you.
I wouldn't if I were you
What makes it so great is that it's not too crowded, so you can actually breathe when taking these walks. The people are crazy in a good way. It has some pretty good restaurants and the famed Detroit River. They used to have Boblo boats.
Detroit has cleaned up and is a interesting city to visit. I hidden gem
Thanks for watching
I traveled to Detroit from Chicago a few years ago. It was the coldest days of the year, so not a lot happening on the streets, but I was still amazed by how much the city had to offer. Not just in downtown either.
The media has spent years painting Detroit as hopeless wasteland. I saw some rundown buildings, but "hopeless" was absolutely not the vibe I got from the city. Watching this, it's nice to be reminded that the motor city is just like any other major American city
Maybe not as crowded as, say New York or Los Angeles (or Chicago). But like would that really be such a bad thing?
It was actually really nice to walk around during rush hour and not be surrounded by hoards of people.
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It is a wasteland papi......TRUMP will be here soon
Outside of downtown, like Highland Park, it's very much a wasteland
@@silentvega2004 you named a bad area. I live here and for every bad area you can name I can name a high income beautifully taken care of area where people have pride in their surroundings and whatnot. Stop with the “cap” as the kids say.
I lived in and around Detroit for 4 years. Stayed downtown a for a little while, then Roseville, then moved to the east side (Jefferson-Chalmers neighborhood). I loved hanging out Downtown so much. Met so many awesome people and had some pretty wild adventures. There's some serious fun to be had in the city when you get to know some people. All night after hours bars/clubs, outside parties in some random industrial neighborhoods. Glad I got to spend a good portion of my 20s in this city. Hope it continues to improve and prosper!
what does wild adventures mean? lol
Detroit looks clean, always thought it was a dirty /grimy city. Looks better than out here in SF
Yeah, it's clean in Detroit downtown. Great city.
Media don't want to exploit everything good in Detroit.
thats because Detroit came to San francisco .
It is so much cleaner now, it started with cleaning the trash out of the mayor's office
@@winky_cat mayor, city council, uaw, school principals, police chief
A vibrant vibe at that! Motor City Magic. Thank you for sharing this delight of a Detroit walk with us! Cheers, Britt
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching.
@@voyagerw Thank you!
Seen other cities so much by video of course but first time seeing Detroit and it's just different than the rest; I'm impressed.
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Great walk, thank you. Detroit is home for me. Another asked for more videos, yes please. Take us around the city, show others all the great places that have been around for a long time, they are just getting reconnected to each other, but never left us. Thank you to the long time residents of the city, keeping the heartbeat of the Motor City beating.
Thanks so much for watching. So far, my Detroit videos have been the most popular and I couldn't be happier. Will definitely be filming more, so stay tuned. I'm looking forward to discovering more of the city.
Greektown is awesome. Another place for some real Detroit vibe is down by Campus Martius.
Check out my other Detroit video. I pass by Campus Martius I believe. Thanks for watching.
Vibe is bumping!!
It looks surprisingly clean.
It's very clean
@@voyagerwConsidering that Detroit has a lot of smokers there.
It’s ALL GREEK TOWN a place within a city that Rocks!
Totally
I remember Detroit in the 1950's. Always impressed with the tall buildings. Glad the Street Car tracks are still there. I will never forget when one hit the traffic light and it fell in front of our car.
Yes, at its height, the streetcar system had, I believe, 528 miles of track, so you could go anywhere in and around this town. It would be great to bring back at least some of that.
The pre-WWII buildings of Detroit are some of the most interesting around. I wish that sometimes people would do walks and drones in other areas, like Cass Park/Corrdior, DIA/DPL area, and the New Center. Detroit is definitely not just a downtown.
What a fun the group of women at the beginning! Thanks for sharing!
Love your channel too. Keep it up.
That neon "Pegasus" sign is really cool. It's always nice to see some old neon in working order.
I knew a guy who made a good living making and selling neon signs. Very interesting craft. Pegasus is such a cool name too.
Crisp, clear and stable footage
Thanks Rodney
Greektown...Detroit is dope if you know local community! Super fun. can't wait when they build the new Hudson mall downtown
Looks like something out of the movie "Bladerunner"
You're the second person to say that. Man, I really have to watch that movie now.
The people in suburbs saying cities are unsafe are the one who don’t realize a busy city street will always be safer than an empty rural or suburban road. There’s a reason horror movies mainly take place in small towns and suburbs, so do most mass shootings
@Hosea Matthews a busy street literally will stop crimes as they happen, taken from someone who’s lived in 4 nyc neighborhoods over 6 years. An empty suburban or rural stroad or street will have people fly by active crime scenes in their cars without stopping. If you’re a criminal looking to get away with your crimes, you choose empty, rural or suburban areas, just look at the statistics for the last 40 years, crime in big cities has consistently fallen to historic lows(pre pandemic), while crime in suburbs and rural areas has risen steadily. Los Angeles, built as a largely suburban city, has had one of the nations highest crime rates for decades. And as for safety, mass shootings (non targeted killing sprees) are an almost entirely suburban and rural phenomenon. Just take the latest horror show in Raleigh NC, the gunman, a disturbed young white male from the suburbs, most likely driven insane by the isolation suburbs produce, killed 15 of his neighbors, for no discernible reason
@Hosea Matthews Statistically, no. When you take all forms of death by injury into account, the countryside is far more dangerous than cities.
Well this is Greektown and notice the police presence. This is a major tourist area. Now go to certain neighbourhoods like 7 mile, Ecoruse and other areas outside the tourist areas and it is a whole different story.
B.S.!!!
@@TrulyUnruly12Young people will always leave the countryside for the cities due to your backwards mentality, grandpa so enjoy your dying small towns.
Wow great walk , it’s nice to see that Detroit is not only bad news like they use to show us on the tv. Am Greek and the first minutes it feels like walking in Athens by night 😉. Really nice 👍
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Love that "bar on wheels" at the beginnings. Greetings from Naples, Florida. An awesome walk around Detroit. Thank you so much for sharing with us. 👍💯
Yeah, the bar on wheels looks like a good time. Great way to drink and explore the city without too much walking. Glad to share and hope you stay tuned for what's to come.
They are so popular that there are 3 of the here: Handlebar is the original, then Michigan Peddler, and DetroitRollingPub. I think it sprung out of the whole "Slow Roll" and other bar hopping group bike rides. Biking or running without a beer at the end? Like what's the point? In Detroit, I can do a beer run-club almost every night.
Stay safe with this storm 🌊 🥂tink
@@leethomas5830 cheers
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Check out my POV drive if Detroit!
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I'm from the Detroit area. It's come a long way since the great recession.
Thanks for watching
I really came to see the dangerous parts of Detroit at night.
Go to the hood if you want that. Thats not very common in Detroit. Sorry if 8Mile the movie is what you came to see. You do realize that’s a movie and not at all the fabric of Detroit?!
So Detroit is not dangerous ?
it is very common in detroit@@freedomthefreeman487
If you want to see the dangerous part of any city, then go look out your window where you live. I hope that helps.
Detroit is a lot cleaner than most cities. It’s not a lot of homeless ppl. Not a lot of trash in the ground. It has a high crime rate but so does most cities. But I will say it’s one of the CLEANEST cities I saw.
Yeah, pretty clean when I was there.
@@voyagerw yeah they hired ppl to clean it everyday. It’s nice.
@@djdugeon92precisely, most of the haters have no clue, they’re always focused on the hoods with abandoned houses and old abandoned communities. Not realizing Detroit at one point was on pace to be bigger than LA. Detroit is absolutely HUGE even though it’s lost about half of its population over the past couple decades because of city mismanagement among other things. Detroit is amazing!
Reminds me of Memphis. Clean and friendly downtown, but do not walk a few blocks off the main area or else lmao
Memphis sounds interesting. Thanks for watching.
This looks like white Detroit and not black Detroit. I'm sure there is a very big difference.
@@davidsouth3988 it’s not. We all mix together downtown.
@@davidsouth3988 racist comment ?
@@asddd. more like david jim crow south 💀💀
awesome walking tour at night, nice sharing
Thanks!
If you are still in Detroit, you have to do a video walking up or down the Dequindre Cut and maybe Eastern Market on a Wed-Friday.
Next time I will try for sure. Thanks for the suggestions!
@@voyagerw you should do the river walk too. And down on Cass over by Wayne State, lots of nice bars and restaurants over that way
@@mrdeebo313 thanks for the recommendations
Dequindre Cut is cool!
I see Astoria Pastry Shop 😍 Love that place.
Yeah! It has lots of variety.
Where is that?
A lot different from my days there in the 80's, Nice vid.
Oh I bet. How would you describe it back then?
@@voyagerw Grim and depressing. Saw a lot of good bands however.
@@matthewclark1674 interesting..I'm planning on going to some music festivals there myself.
@@voyagerwyou would love Pine Knob
Great walk tour around Detroit at night. Lively atmosphere. Tnx 4sharing 👍
Thanks bud
Cool! Always great to see Detroit
Thanks for watching
When I worked in downtown Detroit, years ago, I loved Greek town. Now u couldn't pay me to go there. Got much of that "inner city" don't want a part of it vibe for me.
I heard it used to be filled with restaurants and coffee shops. Would have loved to see it back then. Thanks for watching though
Trappers Alley was cool back in the 80's. I hope you'll reconsider.
Home sweet home
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Amazing. Keep going
Thanks
Damn...look at all those old world buildings..
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wow, never pictured this in my mind whenever I heard the word Detroit, once again thanks media for giving everything a bad name
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I enjoyed this; video quality exemplary!
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Good after noon 😃 datrite from nyc long island 😎😊🏝️
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Motorcity!
Yessir
I grew up in Detroit, and this is the vibe I always grew up in. Now, just imagine every once inawhile a bust ass idiot in a ghetto-mobile drives by and yells CHECKYOSELFOOL and fires random shots in the air, then moves on. The thing is everyone would only focus on the idiot, and be like see thats detroit for you. So in my mind this vibe here is Detroit, and the image of Detroit, while real, is not the "REAL" detroit, this is.
I really tried to capture the city's good vibe in this video. Every place has its negatives but also has it's charm. Detroit is an awesome city with a nice vibe. Thank you for watching.
@@voyagerw Thanks for posting, I don't get alot of good nostalgia videos about Detroit.
It's just fireworks
Most people don't like being shot. Go figure.
Walking around the street look very nice video I am your fan watching 👍🎉💚!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for this video. I'm in a decision making stage trying to pick next place to move to. I had Canada in mind, but too long to wait for paperwork.... . Ive lived in many US cities and I really dont wanna move back to any of them after I've reached the point of stagnation and not connecting with my environment. I think Detroit may be a good place for my creative soul and desire to be part of the community. Thank you! :-)
Thanks for watching. I hope you like where ever you end up
I love how you said you've reach point of stagnation and you're not connecting with the environment anymore, it's how I feel every time it's time to move somewhere else
Plus, you can pop over to Canada anytime you want. It's literally just minutes away.
Detroit has changed so much!!!! Love it !!!!
Thanks for watching
Looks better than New York City right now. NYC is looking like a slum these days.
NYC really doesn’t look that bad right now it looked WAY worse in the 70s and 80s whenever the city entered a fiscal crisis when our nation was experiencing stagflation.
This is Greektown, its a "green zone" heavily securitized.
Only a few miles from here are the dark streets.
I very very very like your videos
Thanks so much
THANKS SOOO MUCH
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Yeah greektown was originally a Greek neighborhood. Now it’s a suburban and tourist draw. 😢. I mean Greek coffe houses and restaurants with actual Greek owners.
Wow, didn't know that.
hlosteiger2517;you should read:"Detroit True Crime Chronicles" which has a chapter called:"Ernie the Greek Must Die",about a Greek restaurant owner who'd opened an underground casino in the back rooms,which the Giacalones' wanted a percentage of,and a whole big mess resulted when Ernie refused to me muscled around. They caught up with Ernie years later in 1975 at East Warren at Chalmers,in the early morning,asking him to crack a safe for them at a Grosse Pointe house!! Ernie knew it was a set-up,but he played it cool,and after taking a few icepick wounds to the chest,he pulled his gun and killed all three of his assailants,before returning home!! 😮
Heavy police presence
Yes, I felt safe seeing them around.
It looks lit!! 👍🏽👍🏽
Yeah, not bad!
It seems ver safe there are cops and many people walking good vibes
Great sharing. You give me a wonderful virtual trip at night on Detroit street.
A new sub from Singapore!!!
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Nice!
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Hermoso felicidades
This feels like a video game
Simcity
I'm picking up a very laid back vibe.
Nice
Ah so many memories! Makes me home sick.
A cease-pool up close ...wow
Cool city!❤
Thanks for watching
Damn, when it was still warm outside at Greek Town
yeah, winter is coming
At 3:26 😂 something tells me homeboy's lost his girl for good by now, she's not dressed for running red lights pendejo lol
Reminds me of the street scene blade runner
Blade runner has been suggested to me many times but I've yet to see it. I'll really have to watch it now.
@@voyagerw
The original.
I think of Racael, when I use self check out.
Deeeeeeetrrrrroooiiiittt 😘 I love u!
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Thanks for the post! Born here, raised kids, here, rode the streets on my huffy bike, cork town, downtown, modeled under the tents at Chene Park, seen hundreds of artist perform in different venues, raised my kids here. To LOVE Detroit you really have to accept the good and bad. Thank you for allowing people to see the Heart of our city where the love settles! Peace and Love ❤️
@@queenmccauley4534 that's amazing. I feel the same way about my city, Toronto in Canada. There's the good and the bad, but it's my home, and I love it. Detroit has been a great place to visit. I'm looking forward to more trips where I can explore deeper into it's culture. Especially the music scene.
Love the Pegasus sign at 1:35, very good video.
Nice Walk
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Bar on wheels. Ann Arbor was chicken to have it. Amsterdam has always had it. Good on ya Motown. My Town. Looking forward to re aquainting myself with it soon. Cheers. Greektown has excellent food..>!!!
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they have bars on wheels in ann arbor lol but then again i haven't been there much since early 2020
Our Downtown is great here in Detroit
put ya hands up for detroit
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I've gone to Detroit a few times and it's pretty great but you can cross the wrong side of the tracks fast. I went to a museum with my sister and when we left and turned a corner it was nothing but scorched buildings and bulletproof glass.
What a vibe indeed! Awesome walking video. I'm loving your channel too and just subscribed. I'm looking forward to checking out your other videos. Cheers from your new friend in NYC! 🍻
Thanks bud
@@voyagerw For sure!
Well made, interesting , well done.
Thanks, appreciate that.
That was cool. Thanks.
Looks like downtown St. Paul Minnesota. Only worse.St. Paul Minnesota.
like to look........feel
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Sorry if this is long, but I feel I have to say a few things: first, a lot of people who haven't spent time here say "oh, it's just downtown that's now nice" because they've heard others say that, but this is no longer true. The revitalization of Detroit is intentionally being done from the city core (downtown - where a good portion of money to fund the improvements is generated by way of business) outward, one step at a time. A few examples: Midtown was the first huge improvement after downtown, and from my vantage point, areas like Jefferson-Chalmers and others followed. Rivertown (warehouse district) while nice today, was basically a wasteland in the 1990s (other than a pretty cool post-punk club that was there, it was like an abandoned ghost town that was pretty unsafe to be wandering at night). Corktown (Detroit's oldest still-remaining neighborhood) was ugly, and slowly dying & decaying with little hope. All of these places are nice today and getting nicer every year.
So, why can't the bad areas (yes, there are plenty still) change quicker to your liking? - I'll tell you why. Because Detroit is larger than Manhattan, Boston, and San Francisco combined, yet lacks the tax base of even one of those cities - and a strong tax base is largely what pays for improvements. You think you could improve a major city overnight which was neglected and allowed to decay for 50+ years under such circumstances? - you're an unrealistic fool if you think you could.
Thankfully, Mayor Duggan had the good sense to offer tax incentives get more businesses to move to Detroit and get involved in improving things* (Dan Gilbert/Quicken/Rocket, being the biggest/most publicized example), which has also helped pay for a lot, and it was enough for Gilbert (and others like him) to realize it was a money-making opportunity to start buying up decaying buildings, renovating them, and re-purposing them to generate money (again, which generates tax revenue), which helped speed up the improvements a bit more....but it's still a slow process. But Detroit is absolutely headed in the right direction...and since it's 2013 bankruptcy, has accumulated NO debt, and worked within a balanced budget.
*note: Dennis Archer was a good mayor who previously tried to implement these types of plans and incentives too, but he faced a corrupt and incompetent city council that blocked his every attempt to fix things back in those days, till he threw up his hands in disgust and decided not to run again, and moved on with his life.
Yes I I do remember Detroit started on an upward trajectory during the Archer administration and then I believe the economy went south and as you stated he didn’t run again ~ seems like people forgot that some have a negative view of his time in office ( I do NOT ) I do know one of his Sons is now one of the movers and shakers doing business in Detroit at the present time . Gotta add I been voting for Duggan from the beginning of his first bid to become Mayor because I KNEW RESOURCES would appear to improve this city that probably would not have from any of the other candidates.. I also have this feeling that if there was a Black Mayor the mayor of Texas would have done what he did in Chicago and New York sending MORE ILLEGAL INVADERS to this city than we would have been able to financially deal with and putting us back in BANKRUPTCY and using OUR RESOURCES AND tax dollars to benefit them there are some here at least 700 in southwest Detroit and ( I believe that’s why a good portion of what is going on there is happening ) aside from the rejuvenation because of the FORD MOBILITY CENTER - Michigan Central )
Oh let me not forget Denver also being over run with ILLEGAL INVADERS another city run by a Black democratic mayor.. I have this feeling this is being done to destroy any potential for these cities to even consider voting for a black mayor for any foreseeable future.
I used to make skateboarding videos in downtown Detroit from 1996-1998 and I can tell you 100% the difference today is mind blowing. We would shoot right on Woodward Avenue on the weekends sometimes and there would be no cars or people anywhere and all the storefronts were vacant. We could probably have shot guns off and nothing would have happened it was so deserted. Glad to see it back! I spent a-lot of time in Greektown on weekends in High School! I miss Pizza Papalis!
Remember Monday night movies at The State Theater?
I never went to any of those but I did go to a-lot of awesome concerts for cheap in the 90's at the State Theatre. @@jayson1710
Looks a lot cleaner than some places in the states ,nice to see police relaxing too . 😀
Thanks for watching
Wow, it looks lively & cosmopolitan. I'm leaving for DTM this evening and will be staying in the Greektown area, I am superpumped.
Downtown Detroit is most definitely lit you will see some of the most beautiful women on this planet in the city.
Detroit looks like a really nice place...
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Congrats for 100K views!
Thanks buddy
LCA! LCA! LCA! LCA!
i hope this city is recovering
Me too. Thanks for watching
We need more Bozukis camera time.
Detroit needs more activity, retail, restaurants. It’s missing something.
More is better. Thanks for watching.
Actually there were 70 new restaurants that opened up in Detroit in the two years prior to Covid. They are pretty much all rebounding now. This video is only one section of the city.
@@Lakeshore14 I hope they rebound well despite recession fears. I feel for restaurants.
@@voyagerw I agree. They are facing challenges but I have hope for them. Thanks for the nice Detroit video.👍
@@Lakeshore14 thanks for watching
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It’s cold af now
Thinking of coming up for a Lions game. Always wanted to see Ford Field. Anything I need to worry about?
As a visitor myself, I can only speak from the few times that I've been there. Overall, I felt safe. There was a lot of police presence in certain areas so some mixed feelings there. I've travelled quite a bit and would always recommend keeping to yourself, not attracting unnecessary attention, and don't dress to fancy with jewelry if you can help it. Also, stick to the main areas and I'm sure you'll be fine. Thanks for watching btw.
Well yeah, dah! If your looking for a Lions victory you have a lot to worry about. Other than that, you'll be fine.
@@macdonagh313 lol still early in the season..but ya, not looking good
Nothing to worry about as long as you’re not a dick. You’re fine brother. Detroit welcomes you.
Amazing walk, you have awesome content on your channel. New subscriber here! :)
Thanks friend
Irish pub!!!🥳🥳🥳💚💚💚
Appreciate the exposure, mfs really shit on Detroit without knowing a damn thing
I walk the street of downtown Detroit back when I had an internship at GM. Lesson one, never walk the streets alone at night! Even cops back then were on foot patrol were paired up!
You’re fine in Downtown Detroit at night. Just like any major city you should stay out of not highly illuminated places at night but downtown is fine. Maybe if you’re not comfortable because you’re on an internship and not from the area you could say that.
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Greektown used to be phenomenal, when it was Greek. Now it’s grossly overrated for night life. It’s an accessory to a mediocre casino and chain restaurants. The Greek restaurants that are left are glorified coney islands and hardly authentic (think Greek salad, pastitsio, gyros and baklava and nothing beyond that). You can get that at any coney in metro Detroit. Astoria bakery is still pretty cool though but the area is lacking in authenticity. Good thing other areas of the city are developing for quality nightlife.
I agree with you. However, you must realize that there are few Greeks who live there any longer and like any other ethnic group, they became mainstream and assimilated into the American culture. The second or third generation of children become less familiar with their grandparents' culture or language and have moved to suburban communities outside the city. It would be nice to have "authenticity," but that cannot happen if you do not have Greeks living there 24/7 and, to be real, without the casino and tourism, Greektown would have died a natural death years ago.
Nice better than Baltimore 😃👍
Thanks, I'm sure Baltimore has some good spots.
i think is looking good! why people say dangerous place?
Step a block away from downtown and you'll find out.
@@Max-lm2jcne block from downtown is not bad 🤣
The abandoned city of Detroit looks better than the Moscow province of the Golden Horde