Detroit- (Hopefully) Not the New New York
“New York is an overpriced, overrated, overvalued place young creatives get conned into seeking out only to find that themselves becoming overworked copywriters living in the shadier parts of Kings County. It’s a terrible place to try to pursue your dreams.” (MetroTimes)
Detroit’s Metro Times worries about Ex-New Yorkers moving to Detroit and turning into a gentrified recreation of today’s Lower East Side populated by ‘an army of fussy, pram-pushing power moms coming down Second Avenue . . . demanding that the last homeless dude puts out his cigarette’.