I grew up in metro Detroit, Blurt. My grandma was armed illegally most of my life. It was just her and me mostly....she was raising me on her pension.
Metro Detroit? How come you guys didn't White Flight the hell outta there like all the others did?
My grandmother lived IN Detroit during the riots and after when the "white flight"(even the middle black citizens left...it was not white flight....it was middle class flight) and after when the arsons were a thing.
When my mother got pregnant with me(at 17), my grandmother left Detroit and moved to a safer metro part. Metro Detroit is a tricounty area....so she left Wayne county for Macomb(which has just gone downhill over the years). So when people say "metro Detroit" they are referring to the tricounty areas around Detroit.
So I grew up in Macomb country. 15 mile and Gratiot area.
My grandmother raised me and didnt want me to be born and brought home into a house that could set on fire at any night. And today, that street in Detroit she moved from doesnt have one single house that isnt burnt or boarded.... or both. The city never recovered.