Hey all,
I have always been contemplating moving to New York for various reasons. I was born and raised in the shadows of Detroit, and from talking with people unfamiliar with Detroit it is clear that the perception of Detroit's crime is drastically blown out of proportion. In downtown Detroit, in the club district/casino district I feel very safe walking alone at night.
So I was curious if my perception of the crime in New York is inflated just the same? How is life in New York? What is the housing price range for a ~1,000 square foot home with two or three bedroms? What about a two bedroom appartment? Is it safe to take a stroll in the middle of the night? Are subways notoriously dangerous, or is it safe to do work on my laptop while being oblivious to my surroundings?
If anyone is actually curious about the Detroit area... The housing cost of a ~1,000 square foot house with two bedrooms ranges from $60,000 in a really bad area of Detroit to about $160,000 for the same house in an acceptable area like Dearborn (my city) which is still a ten minute drive from Downtown, to ~$240,000 for something around four bedrooms in a nicer area like Canton, and of course there are the areas like West Bloomfield and Gross Isle which can take you from the $750ks for a "nice" house to well over a mil for a four bedroom house. Crime is very centralized around the bad parts of Detroit, the east and south sides. Everywhere else in Detroit other then downtown is ghetto looking, but quite safe. All subburbs are safe. We have no usefull mass transit, freeways jam up, but except for certain small stretches never slow down to below 30 mph during non-construction season. Bars close at 2 am everywhere, and with no mass transit you have to be extremely careful driving between 2 am and 4 am.
Squick
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2003-12-12, 09:27 AM
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