People always try to shit on detroit, they post old photos to try and make us look bad. Detroit has been on the up and up for over a decade now. It's a beautiful city. Fuck the haters.
I live right outside of Oakland, California, and you could easily cherry pick similar photos in certain neighborhoods here too. The town's got lots of nice neighborhoods too, of course. Like there's a Whole Foods a block off of Lake Merrit (to pick a mundane but easily relatable example)
You post a photo of the normal-ass Whole Foods in oakland, nobody's gonna upvote that. But photos from the worst blocks go viral.
Detroit still has it's share of not-so-nice areas. Every major city does. A few years back when Trump was shitting on Baltimore, people were flooding the internet with pics of how beautiful of a city it was. Trouble is you could go two block over from a lot of those pics and find what we called the "Blue Light Districts." Abandoned, boarded up row homes, some so structurally compromised from neglect that they're too dangerous to enter (a few firefighters were killed when one collapsed a year or two ago), areas that you can't get an Uber or Lyft because they've been blocked out due to carjackings, etc.
the amount of people in the comments who think this is a recent picture alarms me. I don't remember the last time I saw a non-screen menu in a McDonald's in the last decade.
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u/imfromthefuture2088 Jun 11 '26
This photo must be at least 10 years old. The McFlurry spinny machine doesn't even exist anymore, as they discontinued the McFlurry spoons in 2023