simply Dan
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What’s better, fleeing to the suburbs, or choosing to stay in an older downtown Detroit neighbourhood and construct a house that truly gives something back to the community?
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"Honey, I've found us the perfect house in downtown Detroit!"
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AnarchoSocialist
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As soon as I saw that picture all I could think is that if a television executive ever saw that it would only be weeks until they had a reality tv show where they took some slow witted couples house and spent half an hour showing how they turned it into a fortress with all kinds of ridiculous security features.
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Hydrogen
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That is just too funny!
scarberiankhatru
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What's in the garage - a boat or a monster truck?
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Long Island Mike
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A interesting Detroit house...
Dan: An interesting pic of an inner-city home in Detroit-I can picture this type of secure house in other cities with marginal neighborhoods such as the South Bronx in NYC...but as said what is being kept behind those secure doors? LI MIKE
Dan: An interesting pic of an inner-city home in Detroit-I can picture this type of secure house in other cities with marginal neighborhoods such as the South Bronx in NYC...but as said what is being kept behind those secure doors? LI MIKE
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junctionist
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First thing I thought from the line about giving back to the community: "did someone decide to build a local fire hall on the ground level of that house?" You know, for Halloween night...
Zephyr
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More sad than funny
I am not from Detroit, nor do I know anyone from there, but I happen to be familiar with the area that this building is located within. Actually to correct the identification, this building is some distance from downtown Detroit, although like downtown some of it is near the Detroit River. It is on the far Eastside in a neighbourhood known as Jefferson-Chalmers. Jefferson-Chalmers has a most discouraging profile: lower family incomes and lower test scores for its children for all levels of schooling. The housing stock of Jefferson-Chalmers is decidedly varied: from old mansions (including the former Fisher mansion which was bought by Hare Krishnas) down to crumbling and abandoned homes or apartments. Some areas are booming in renovations and new housing, whereas most other areas of that neighbourhood are not prosperous nor "up and coming."
We must remind ourselves that while the house pictured is comical in its apparent over-top mini-fortress look, it may in fact be justified. This type of house, if nothing else, spells fear, and that fear leads to a strategy of defence to ward off potential intruders from the outer world, however widely or narrowly the latter is defined. If the area has high crime, it's easy to understand the fear expressed. In the mid-1980s, Detroit earned the dreaded title of "Murder Capitol" of the US, and remains to this day in that same company of cities that perennially are candidates for that title.
Imminent danger may exist in Jefferson-Chalmers, but there also is derangement in proximity to normalcy elsewhere in the US. There are people, for instance, who live in areas known to have low crime statistics, but who are nonetheless armed to the teeth, and will not be convinced to backoff. One of the latter group was recently detailed on American TV: burglar bars on his cellar windows, with rolling steel shudders on the rest; multiple cameras on the property, with razor-wire atop his high, iron fences; a collection of guns; state-of-the-art alarms on all the windows and doors; capped off with two vicious dogs trained to "protect". As far as we know, this man has never had any instance in his or his family's lives that would explain this troubling behaviour, but he continues to finance this type of lifestyle that eases his fears and raises others. This man and his family are not wealthy, he has a small business nearby that is also in a safe community, but then he often forgets to close his doors and/or set his alarms, prompting frequent visits from his local police. This may seem like a pathological problem, but in varying degrees, it is far from rare in this country.
Justified or not, whatever leads to houses like this is more sad than funny.
I am not from Detroit, nor do I know anyone from there, but I happen to be familiar with the area that this building is located within. Actually to correct the identification, this building is some distance from downtown Detroit, although like downtown some of it is near the Detroit River. It is on the far Eastside in a neighbourhood known as Jefferson-Chalmers. Jefferson-Chalmers has a most discouraging profile: lower family incomes and lower test scores for its children for all levels of schooling. The housing stock of Jefferson-Chalmers is decidedly varied: from old mansions (including the former Fisher mansion which was bought by Hare Krishnas) down to crumbling and abandoned homes or apartments. Some areas are booming in renovations and new housing, whereas most other areas of that neighbourhood are not prosperous nor "up and coming."
We must remind ourselves that while the house pictured is comical in its apparent over-top mini-fortress look, it may in fact be justified. This type of house, if nothing else, spells fear, and that fear leads to a strategy of defence to ward off potential intruders from the outer world, however widely or narrowly the latter is defined. If the area has high crime, it's easy to understand the fear expressed. In the mid-1980s, Detroit earned the dreaded title of "Murder Capitol" of the US, and remains to this day in that same company of cities that perennially are candidates for that title.
Imminent danger may exist in Jefferson-Chalmers, but there also is derangement in proximity to normalcy elsewhere in the US. There are people, for instance, who live in areas known to have low crime statistics, but who are nonetheless armed to the teeth, and will not be convinced to backoff. One of the latter group was recently detailed on American TV: burglar bars on his cellar windows, with rolling steel shudders on the rest; multiple cameras on the property, with razor-wire atop his high, iron fences; a collection of guns; state-of-the-art alarms on all the windows and doors; capped off with two vicious dogs trained to "protect". As far as we know, this man has never had any instance in his or his family's lives that would explain this troubling behaviour, but he continues to finance this type of lifestyle that eases his fears and raises others. This man and his family are not wealthy, he has a small business nearby that is also in a safe community, but then he often forgets to close his doors and/or set his alarms, prompting frequent visits from his local police. This may seem like a pathological problem, but in varying degrees, it is far from rare in this country.
Justified or not, whatever leads to houses like this is more sad than funny.
adma
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Like, the Ernst Zundel house on Carlton might be unexceptional there...
Jitterbugg
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Kinda funny but it looks like the back of the house. Probably has picture windows and a nice front porch on the other side.