Want To Find Out How Screwed Detroit Is?

How bad is Detroit? It once gave the keys to the city to Saddam Hussein.

Over the last several years, it has ranked as the most murderous city, the poorest city, the most segregated city, as the city with the highest auto-insurance rates, with the bleakest outlook for workers in their 20s and 30s, and as the place with the most heart attacks, slowest income growth, and fewest sunny days. It is a city without a single national grocery store chain. It has been deemed the most stressful metropolitan area in America. Likewise, it has ranked last in numerous studies: in new employment growth, in environmental indicators, in the rate of immunization of 2-year-olds, and, among big cities, in the number of high school or college graduates.

Men’s Fitness magazine christened Detroit America’s fattest city, while Men’s Health called it America’s sexual disease capital. Should the editors of these two metrosexual magazines be concerned for their safety after slagging the citizens of a city which has won the “most dangerous” title for five of the last ten years? Probably not: 47 percent of Detroit adults are functionally illiterate.

On the upside, Detroit ranks as the nation’s foremost consumer of Slurpees and of baked beans on Labor Day. And as if all of this isn’t humiliating enough, the Detroit Lions are 0-14.

Detroit: I guess somebody has to take last place some how.

Check out some of the shots of Detroit: http://garry.posterous.com/detroit-the-place-to-film-low

It’s pretty sad.

Coming from Singapore where everything’s pretty much well maintained and we’re somehow somewhere within the top 10 in many lists it makes me feel very lucky to be living where I am now.