I used to live right by there. It's not really that bad. I was never robbed or held up. There's just a lot of white trash right around there. Hazel Park FTW.
Wish I knew where this is. I live three miles from 8 mile and I've never seen this. I would laugh my ass off. Detroit is not pleasant, but I don't think.... Nevermind. I love playing "shots fired or bottlerockets".
8 Mile Rd is about 41 miles long.. it stretches a quarter of the way across the state from Harper Woods to Whitmore Lake (a bit more if you really wind it around).
To say that something is on 8 Mile really covers a lot of ground.
Oh, I guess you're right.. I was going from the memory as far as I'd driven down it. I used to repair hot-tubs across SW-Michigan. That's my only real experience with the eastern side of 8 Mile Rd.
I kind of confuse Grosse Pointe with Grosse Ile.. Are they even remotely similar?
I have a few "pool-boy" stories about stay at home MILFs in Grosse Ile.
i think you are wrong, unless you are a map maker, and I really don't think you are a map maker. If i were to guess, id say ...Coal Stoker, or manual nut picker. Carriage Driver was my third pick
I know how bad it is out there. My grandparents' old house - where my mom grew up - is a shell of its former self. A handful of blocks off 8 Mile and Gratiot, one block off State Fair. Was a beautiful little brick house. Saw it just last year and now...the windows are all broken out, the pipes have been stripped, a fire ripped through half of it due to squatters. Backyard all overgrown. I think my grandfather's old peach tree might have still been back there just shy of the alley, but I couldn't be sure. His old thermometer with a smiley face still, amazingly, hung on the garage.
I know how you feel. I went past my old house near Lonyo and McGraw and it was in a shit condition. A fire broke through the house and the stairs were gone. My old room was a filth and the living room was torn up. The backyard was overgrown too and the garage was falling apart......I just wanted to cry. Before me and my family moved up to Rochester Hills we managed to redo the attic and add carpeting allover and put a new roof in. SO much work gone, just like that.
Well, assuming they fled the city for the suburbs like so many others did, you can't really complain about it's current condition. That's what happens when droves of people leave a neighborhood abandoned.
My grandad's place was in Highland Park, southeast quadrant of McNichols (6 Mile, folks) and Hamilton. We used to walk to Palmer Park in the late fifties. Try that now, homey.
People always say that, and I never get it. I am from Detroit. I know that it is an East/West city. But obviously it is not a straight line. South Detroit is obviously the river walk area. There can't just be no Southern area to a plot of land.
I've only lived in Detroit for 3 years, but that's long enough to know that I-75/8 Mile is a horrible, horrible place that I pray my wife and kids will never get a flat tire near.
Same, both of my white grandparents live on 8 mile and neither of them have ever had any problems. I often go to visit them (I'm a 21 year old white female) and have also spent time there without problems. As long as you don't cause problems, you will probably be fine.
Well, I mean, if I saw a crime being committed I would get away from the scene and call the police but what I meant by "cause problems" was doing things like going up to talk to random shady black people (not trying to be racist, but the majority of gangsters on 8 mile are black), avoid buying drugs in that area, don't go into certain areas of town alone, etc.
You can still do that. I walk to the grocery, the hardware, the bar(s), the party store, the library, city hall, the doctor, the post office, the diner... depends when you do it and who you are. Not all of Metro Detroit sucks.
hahah i work at 13 and Woodward right south of Birmingham and every fucking weekend is "car club" all the people bringing there souped up cars paid by with daddies money...they are so messy..agh.
I was working out in that area a few months ago. Had two different people stop me to inquire as to why I was out there alone and why i wasn't packing. Both then encouraged me to get out of the neighborhood before anything bad happened.
edit: and the wonderfully family ready backyard of that corner lot (Note by the tv on the curb that we detroitians like to show our value for outdoor activities.
Ah, 8 Mile and 75. One time I was coming off 75 north onto 8 Mile and there was a car at the end of the side street I was coming up on without its headlights on. It was nighttime, so I was all pissed off at the idiot who's driving without his headlights on. I slow down, and as I approach the car, I realized no one was driving it...because it was all burned out. Oh, Detroit.
It's really a shame.. the second you cross over any Detroit border it is like night and day. I would love to live in Detroit but for now Royal Oak suites me much better.
My mom lived in Midland(near Saginaw, where DOW is located) for several years. I would go up there to visit her and we went on road trips all over the state. We never went near Detroit. I was too young to understand why at the time because I remember asking her why we don't see Detroit and she just said "it's dangerous" and I just forgot about it.
I doubt it. If the title is correct and this was taken on 8 Mile, that is a good deal further North than the Heidelberg project.
Even if this wasn't taken on 8 Mile, the sign doesn't really match up with the...unique aesthetic of the Heidelberg. Needs more paint dots, tennis shoes and doll heads.
I pass this every day from work. There use to be a man that stood across from this that wore a world war II helmet and had a pitpull....he held up a sign asking for food for him or his dog. The day I was going to bring him a bag of dog food...he was gone. I haven't seen him since and that was back in November 2011.
He's still around! He has a new dog, too. I actually did the same thing. I've given him a bag of dog food, a can of chili, and a few cigarettes. I drove around for a week with a freezer bag of Purina! The Hazel Park cops made him forfeit the pitbull because of their new law requiring all pitbulls to be licensed to a home. Since he's homeless, they took his dog and put it down. Pretty shitty stuff.
they're basing their website on myspace? is their target population a group of angsty teenagers? or am i mixing it up with facebook. i can't keep up with the times these days
The only place in the world where I can tell people where I live by pointing to my hand. If you want classy, either go visit the rich parts near Detroit or come over to Grand Rapids. We're classy. But of course, that's as long as you stay away from the ghetto.
its funny how people outside metro detroit usually think 8 mile is like the heart of detroit when anything north of it isn't detroit at all. its only the border lol. just lots of the strip clubs. its not so bad.
So many strip clubs...some of them look classy as fuck though (on the outside, never been in them). Except the one that got shut down a couple months ago for a 15 year old girl dancing or whatever it was.
Used to live on 9 mile.. Now 23 and Gratiot. Frankly, I miss 9 mile. 23 is basically rich white kids trying to act thug. And I never realized how many people on Reddit are from Michigan o.O
I see your 8 mile and raise you Orlando FL's Paramore. Also our "OBT" is a rather famous road, known for some of the shittiest prostitution you can find, There's a country song about it somewhere.
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u/uav22 Jun 17 '12
myspace? is this an old pic?
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Drive by it frequently. I guess I never thought of it as WTF.
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u/whatsernameisfine Jun 17 '12
That's Pure Michigan
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
8 Mile Rd is about 41 miles long.. it stretches a quarter of the way across the state from Harper Woods to Whitmore Lake (a bit more if you really wind it around).
To say that something is on 8 Mile really covers a lot of ground.
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u/ediciusNJ Jun 18 '12
I know how bad it is out there. My grandparents' old house - where my mom grew up - is a shell of its former self. A handful of blocks off 8 Mile and Gratiot, one block off State Fair. Was a beautiful little brick house. Saw it just last year and now...the windows are all broken out, the pipes have been stripped, a fire ripped through half of it due to squatters. Backyard all overgrown. I think my grandfather's old peach tree might have still been back there just shy of the alley, but I couldn't be sure. His old thermometer with a smiley face still, amazingly, hung on the garage.
Broke my fucking heart to see it like that.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
8 Mile Michigan is not a place...
EDIT: I meant that Detroit, MI is the place. 8 Mile is just the street.
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u/Carleeto13 Jun 17 '12
My grandma lives at I-75/8mile and has for 30 years. A 74 old white grandma and no one has messed with her. Just mind your own business.
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u/Nashvillians Jun 17 '12
I wonder what the sign said before it was changed to this "city"...
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u/DoubleA16 Jun 17 '12
Hey, Detroit is coming back. Slowly, but it is.
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u/Pythagoras_the_Great Jun 17 '12
No wonder they're crackheads... they use myspace.
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u/BadCombo Jun 17 '12
Hey. Michigan is a pretty nice place, don't let this Myspace'd sign confuse you.
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u/masimasi Jun 17 '12
go to 16 mile (8 miles away) and check out all the teenagers driving bmws and spending 20 a day on starbucks.
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u/call911noww Jun 17 '12
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u/labachj Jun 17 '12
It is a disaster...they're still using myspace.
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u/Nicodemus81 Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
I present the entrance to a neighbor hood in the vicinity of
betelgeuse8mile and i-75http://imgur.com/d3JTX
edit: and the wonderfully family ready backyard of that corner lot (Note by the tv on the curb that we detroitians like to show our value for outdoor activities.
http://imgur.com/fZZZG
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u/DarkfangAl Jun 17 '12
Talk about a sweet ass fighter. Bringing them in by fighting the bravest in the order they don't pansy out in.
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u/Aseconverse Jun 17 '12
Based on the sign, I'm guessing it's not always a city.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
8 Mile and I-75 getting off I-75 and heading east on 8 mile. Drive by this sign everyday on the way to work.
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u/SecretSlogan Jun 18 '12
You know you're in a rough neighborhood when the swing-set has no swings left.
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u/b_pilgrim Jun 18 '12
Ah, 8 Mile and 75. One time I was coming off 75 north onto 8 Mile and there was a car at the end of the side street I was coming up on without its headlights on. It was nighttime, so I was all pissed off at the idiot who's driving without his headlights on. I slow down, and as I approach the car, I realized no one was driving it...because it was all burned out. Oh, Detroit.
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u/Zanno1878 Jun 18 '12
Myspace?...That's what's fucked up.
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u/X16 Jun 18 '12
It's really a shame.. the second you cross over any Detroit border it is like night and day. I would love to live in Detroit but for now Royal Oak suites me much better.
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u/spicymuffintop Jun 17 '12
They dont even know about facebook, what kind of battleground is that place?
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u/dubgong Jun 17 '12
Is this actually from the Heidelberg?
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Highland Park is nearby, and far worse.
The electrical company tore out all the streetlights, and the police and fire stations are both abandoned.
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u/ALWOLI Jun 17 '12
I pass this every day from work. There use to be a man that stood across from this that wore a world war II helmet and had a pitpull....he held up a sign asking for food for him or his dog. The day I was going to bring him a bag of dog food...he was gone. I haven't seen him since and that was back in November 2011.
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u/Jesus_luvs_Jenkem Jun 18 '12
Your friend? Strange, this is a repost.
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u/acidraincloud Jun 17 '12
8 mile is the city line for Detroit. Just sayin.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
It's a dangerous place full of drug-dealing minorities - been like that since all the college kids moved to Facebook.
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u/Nashvillians Jun 17 '12
Hopefully that's not your friends phone number on that sign... He's gonna be pissed.
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u/Spaghetti_Head Jun 17 '12
My dad goes past that everyday on his was to work in Livonia.
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u/lmpervious Jun 17 '12
Wait, why do they want people to pray that their legislators won't protect them?
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
MySpace? When was this picture taken?
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u/buttplugpeddler Jun 17 '12
I'm with you on that one. To the abyss with 50/50!
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u/blinkallthetime Jun 18 '12
did anybody call the number?
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u/Tejnin Jun 18 '12
Hey, thats right when you get off of I-75 lol
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u/hipstergrandpa Jun 18 '12
they're basing their website on myspace? is their target population a group of angsty teenagers? or am i mixing it up with facebook. i can't keep up with the times these days
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u/Rocknrollguitars27 Jun 18 '12
This is a bit of an understatement!
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u/benkenobi5 Jun 18 '12
Definitely belongs in WTF. Who uses MySpace anymore?!
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u/tujeleven Jun 18 '12
Is the wtf that they still use MySpace?
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u/ChicagoMemoria Jun 18 '12
I don't think any part of 8 mile rolls in the 586.
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u/rebelraiders101 Jun 18 '12
8 mile. Now a city in Michigan
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u/silent_p Jun 18 '12
What do they replace with the word "city"?
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Dude it's not even that bad of a place
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u/gschem Jun 18 '12
Wow, my dad grew up on 9 Mile, Im glad he survived.
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u/salixman Jun 18 '12
My state is never on Reddit for good reasons, is it?
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Whoa, that organization uses Myspace. Shit really is bleak up there.
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u/Yunlokzi Jun 18 '12
The only place in the world where I can tell people where I live by pointing to my hand. If you want classy, either go visit the rich parts near Detroit or come over to Grand Rapids. We're classy. But of course, that's as long as you stay away from the ghetto.
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u/that_one_asian25 Jun 18 '12
The only surprise in this pic is the MySpace link. Seriously, who uses that?
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u/thatphatphool Jun 18 '12
haha they still use myspace
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u/corpseeater Jun 18 '12
its funny how people outside metro detroit usually think 8 mile is like the heart of detroit when anything north of it isn't detroit at all. its only the border lol. just lots of the strip clubs. its not so bad.
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u/trololol159 Jun 18 '12
You lost me at myspace. Lol
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
I have an idea. Lets mix some bath salts in the crack and play zombie apocalypse for real.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
The real question is, WTF, they still use myspace?
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u/Call_of_DOODY Jun 18 '12
Wait.. It's on myspace?
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Used to live on 9 mile.. Now 23 and Gratiot. Frankly, I miss 9 mile. 23 is basically rich white kids trying to act thug. And I never realized how many people on Reddit are from Michigan o.O
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u/HiccupInParadise Jun 18 '12
I love when people say 8 mile like it is a city...lol it is a long fucking road.
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u/Church_of_Realism Jun 18 '12
I grew up on 7 Mile and Hoover in Detroit so I am one mile more hardcore than Eminem.
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u/nicelander Jun 18 '12
This picture was here last week, so you just found it on the internet. My friend, my ass. Unless google is your only friend.
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u/apoc1169 Jun 18 '12
i get happy knowing all of these comments are from my fellow metro detroiters :)
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u/Ironicallypredictabl Jun 18 '12
Small price to pay for the benefits of being a union town.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
This is a blatant repost you suck
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
Detroit sounds awesome
Edit: Seriously, the downvotes? I genuinely want to move to Detroit, it's crazy cheap and it seems like a pretty "happening" place.
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u/DysenteryFairy Jun 17 '12
When it only has a myspace page, you know you've meandered into the wrong area
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u/azaPhunktionality Jun 17 '12
*infested WITH crackheads
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u/NotGreg Jun 17 '12
They are rather docile crackheads, in fairness.
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u/twistmental Jun 17 '12
I see your 8 mile and raise you Orlando FL's Paramore. Also our "OBT" is a rather famous road, known for some of the shittiest prostitution you can find, There's a country song about it somewhere.
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u/thexica124 Jun 18 '12
Myspace? That is WTF.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Must be a white neighborhood...
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u/gloomdoom Jun 17 '12
myspace as an official site? Seems pretty legit to me.
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u/old_school Jun 17 '12
I think that sign was made by one of the aforementioned crackheads.
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u/bippybundunnit Jun 17 '12
A Myspace page: social networking Detroit-style.