you know he got into wharton at the very end of the naz bubble. I was out with him the night before his school started. All these people thinking they were going to have 10,000 a week summer internships and 3-400 hundred when they graduated. They got out when nobody was hiring. Most of his class did not even have jobs upon graduation.
"Doesn't it have the highest concentration of people from the Middle East in the nation?" Pretty much. May have been one of those govt sanctioned resettlement programs for this to happen. Began in the 70's, the Arabs worked at the Ford Rouge plant 12 hour shifts 7 days a week, don't smoke don't drink send the money back home, more came over bought all the houses near the plant no one wanted.
No doubt...#1 is getting worse as crime creeps up in Royal Oak. The city paper paints a bleak outlook over the next 6 - 18 mos.
If Snake Pliskin passes on the sequel "Escape from Detroit", maybe they can get a special ops guy from one of those TV survival shows. He can do a night parachute drop into the city center with 50 Krugerrands, 10 cans of spam, and 1 anti-tank weapon. He can be extracted by Delta Force only if he survives 48 hours, and remains unsodomized.