If someone paid you 30 million dollars, would you live in the inner-city ghettos of Detroit or Gary Indiana ?

Question

The deal is, you would get paid 30 million on completion of a year's residence in the heart of the inner-city of either place. Would
be your choice(a hell of a choice, isn't it?). You would get no special protection, and live in an average home, say a 1950's
3-bedroom bungalow. If you survived, you'd get the money.
You would be monitored, and had to spend 90% of the day(and night) in the respective city. You'd have to shop there, derive any
entertainment(aside from watching the pimps, hookers, and winos
sashay aound town)from the area. Gary has Casinos and a professional basketball and baseball team, which you would be allowed to see. Detroit has pretty much nothing, though I've heard there are a few museums downtown, though that could just be
rumour.
So, would you do it for 30 million? Be honest!

You can see why the jackson family got out of dodge as quickly as possible! Can you blame them?
By way of explanation, I live in the south side of Chicago, and Gary frightens US!
Gary may be the most forlorn incorporated
area in the continental US, and I'm including
Hialeah, Florida; Newark, Compton Cali;
and DC.(as you can see, I know my american ghettos! LOL!)
The only thing poor gary has is the gambling boats(Majestic Star Casino)

http://www.majesticstar.com/

The local mafia skims all the money(per the
movie Casino, with Joe Pesci), and whatever is left gets ripped off by the city council members. What money that
didn't get skimmed by the local mob or pilfered by the city council was used to
give local contractors sweetheart deals
to build two stadiums that no one goes to

http://www.steelheadshoops.com/

http://www.railcatsbaseball.com/

Gary isn't so bad really....I forgot, you
get the Indiana dunes and Miller Beach
on Lake Michigan to hang out at!

Detroit has 3 casinos? Oh boy! And the sports teams don't count, as our agreement was to stay in the city limits,
and Detroit has cleverly located all its sports teams far out of 12 mile road range, as you well know. Though dumpster diving
(bums) may be declared a sport soon by the Olympic committee, though don't hold your breath! LOL!

For those of you who want to read about
detroit, I would highly recommend, "Yes, Virginia, there used to be a city here",
by Kenneth James. Chock full of information about the days with people
with jobs used to live in Detroit, and intact
non-bombed out buildings existed that people, much like your grandparents, used to work in.

Oyster bay's "that would be like living in the Congo" was choice! LOL. COuldn't have said it any better myself.
And anyone who says they live in detroit
live in the suburbs like Livonia. They lie.
let's put it this way...if you are literate enough to have internet access, and can
type, you don't live in Detroit proper, trust me.
And all those "events", and there ain't many, believe me, are almost 100%
patronized by suburban folks. No white
folks live in Detroit proper. And there is not one viable Detroit neighborhood of note.
The entire town is a cesspool that has lost over a million in population in last 40 years.If it is so viable, why did a million people scram? And any white folks that
do exist in city limits would be arabs
running corner groceries to rip off the ghetto residents.
Detroit is shot, and if it was a person, it would be considered in rigor mortis mode...
and now Ford and the others have evidentally decided to eliminate the few auto industry jobs left! SAD!

Love of Truth gave an awesome answer....
this is just a fun conjecture on survival, and a reward for the same....yes, playing the role would be allowed, and you can carry
a piece, on your person and/or glove compartment of car.
Indeed , playing the "crazy" is how many residents themselves survive. When one has a shafl of cold steel held to one's head, the proper reaction would be to make babbling, nonsensical noises,
and spit randomly at no one in particular.
When one has a razor held against one's throat at a stoplight(carjacking), best thing to do is hit the gas, carry aforementioned
razor-holding person with you at 60 miles
an hour until he or you hit the nearest
streetlight.
When approached by 12 menacing men brandishing pistols, if you are solo, best thing to do is take off one's pants, and do the chicken dance. Works every time!

Indeed, acting crazy is the proper survival
strategy in the hellhole that is Detroit proper!

Detroit and Chicago's south side are far worse than the green zone of bagdad, my friend! many area soldiers have finished
their tour, only to get shot up in chicago,
gary, or detroit. These cities are undeclared
war zones that have been that way ever since the MLK riots in the 60's.......

Answer 1

You don't have a single clue as to what your talking about. Detroit is a world class city and has just about everything a large city has. Downtown is beautiful. I live there by choice and love it. You'll never be bored. And as far as sports teams. Not only is Detroit the undisputed biggest sports town in the country but Comerica Park where the Detroit Tigers play is by far the best baseball park in the country and located right downtown across the street from Ford field where the Detroit Lions play, not to mention also downtown is Joe Louis Arena where the Detroit Red Wings play. The Detroit Pistons are the only team that plays outside of the city limits. Where do you get your info brother because it's all wrong. We have great museums, dozens of them. The Detroit Institute of arts is a world class museum and Greenfield village Henry Ford museum is the only place like it in the world and is why people come from all over the world to visit it. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is considered one of the best in the world also. And you would be hard pressed to find pimps and hookers. I wouldn't even know where to look. By the way, I'm white, Detroit is 90% black and I grew up in an all white suburb but wanted to move to Detroit to be near everything that a major metropolis can offer. I've been all over the U.S. and to most of the largest cities so I know. We also have the largest music venue in the country with more concert tickets (mostly rock and popular music) sold than any other city. Last year alone the #1 venue that sold the most concert tickets was DTE Music Theatre followed by Madison Square Garden in N.Y. and in 3rd place, The Palace of Auburn Hills (where the Pistons play). I've been to Gary and if you burned it down it would look the same where as Detroit is so vibrant and alive with excitement, festivities and so many unique night clubs, bars, restaraunts that I'm proud to be from Detroit. You don't have to pay me a thing. I wouldn't live any where else. I love Greektown, Mexicantown and so many other neighborhoods that are not downtown. I live across the street from the Detroit Farmers market wich by the way is the countries largest flower market.

Answer 2

I have traveled some of the most dangerous cities in the world. Yes, I would live in the inner city of Detroit of Gary for 30 million dollars. If I was that worried about it I'd just use my theatrical background and play the down and out drunk. I would dress poor and not have any possessions like a T.V. or DVD player, nice car or anything like that. This question is pretty much a no brainer for only a year. Now if I were a pretty girl I would worry about it a bit more but an man close to forty that is not afraid of a little grit, no problem.

I think the question you should have asked is would you live in Iraq or Somalia with no special protection. In those scenarios you are truly likely to die. And I would not for all the money in the world run around those places without steep protection, and even then I'd think twice, three times, before considering such a proposition. I value my head right where it is.

Answer 3

I'm from the UK and have driven through Gary Indiana (pretty quickly to get out the other side) NO amount of money would make me live there so I guess it would have to be Detroit. Michael Jackson is from Gary Indiana - does that explain anything?

Answer 4

I would live in Detroit. Detroit has the sports and casinos, Gary does not. Just across the river from Windsor, Canada. You bet.

Answer 5

I live and worked and played in detroit all my life.......I used to drink in bars from downtown detroit and the mile roads , 6- 7 -8 mile roads I had more trouble in the suburbs then I ever did in detroit.......downtown we got baseball , football , casinos , greektown , the river front festivals , theaters , auto shows at cobo hall , ......so yes I would live in detroit .....

Answer 6

Detroit has 3 casinos, and 3 professional sports teams: Redwings (hockey), Tigers (baseball), and Lions (football). There's also a lot of stuff to do in Detroit, since downtown is being rebuilt. Get your facts straight, you stupid ***!

Answer 7

Hell yes. Gary, In. If you mind your own business and keep you nose on your own face. What about the Detroit Pistons? Detroit is very cold.

Answer 8

For 30 mill, I'd be crazy not to chance it. I have lived in bad neighbourhoods before.

Answer 9

yes, but I vacation 360 days per year

Answer 10

Detroit is my main place of residence, can I have my CA$H!