Strangely enough, back in the 1970's and 80's it seems to have been the thing for people from the suburbs surrounding Detroit to answer the where-are-you-from question with "Detroit" with no further explanation, at least in Chicago. I discovered this after I moved to Chicago in the mid-80's, because if you told people…

I fucking hate when I tell people I live in Detroit and they ask me what suburb I live in. people just refuse to believe that there are actually people here, which is odd since there are 700,000 who actually live within the city limits. Just last week I met somebody when I was out of state and when I told hime where I…

Where do your sports teams play? What airport do you use? When a show comes to town where does it play? When you tell people who live outside of Michigan where you live whst do you say? Maybe you don't live in Detroit, but you live in Detroit.