freak show gets provincial: new york- detroit

the image you get from the pictures is not what i imagine detroit would look like....but then, except for this part, the rest of this place was depressing as hell. the people were noticibly more provincial than in new york, and kept telling me how cute my accent is. i even got upgraded to first class on the plane there just for being foreign...i suppose....i cant see why else in any case.
i cant imagine why anyone would voluntarily live in such a place.