Of course, in the hellhole that is the "sunbelt" there are no real cities, just suburbs with more crime.
I would never live in NYC. I have had to work there a lot and can't take the negative energy that permeates the air. I have traveled to many cities in the U.S. There were some nice and some that were bad.
Nashville I always liked but recently it's become way too commercial. I liked Boston. But really didn't get to spend a lot of time getting to know anyone there. The Twin Cities are nice but far too liberal and they are paying for it now. Milwaukee was pretty good twenty years ago. But look at it now.
Where would one go? There is no city in Connecticut that I would live in unless I absolutely had to.
Cities have too many people and not enough control. It's actually pretty scary.
Thank you Coleman Young.
Actually, the WORST towns in the northeast and upper midwest are typically not the core cities themselves (Detroit being the exception) but in the older "inner suburbs."
For the most part, that's not the case in Michigan as a whole. Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, and Benton Harbor are all "core cities".
Most of the inner burbs of Detroit, Flint, and Saginaw are working class whites(Or Middle class blacks in Southfield's case).
And the only inner burb I know of which is rougher than the city is Muskegon Heights(Muskegon). Mt Morris Twp may rival Flint, Buena Vista Twp may rival Saginaw, and Highland Park may rival Detroit, but I don't think they exceed them.