Um, you mean that one post where you ripped off detroitblog.org and managed to use only the parts that made it seem like the city has turned completely into a jungle? If you’d ever actually been to the D, you might realize that those alarmist population statistics are often carefully selected to exclude anything outside city limits–even the inner ring suburbs on the north side of 8 Mile Rd. According to the US Census Bureau, the urban Detroit metro area had a population of 3.9 million in 2007, with another 1.5 million in the rest of the Southeast MI area (to which many former Detroiters have moved). While I readily admit there are many abandoned buildings, far too much poverty and crime, and much blight in Detroit, the local entrepreneurship, the amazing art and music scenes, and the dedication of native Detroiters reassure me that the city will never be a ghost town.