re: What is the worst part of Detroit?

I've been to Detroit. It has a lot of run down areas and relics of an extremely prosperous city/middle class that has come and gone.

However, many run down areas of the south have never had that great time and thus have far less to abandon. Baton Rouge probably has as much abandoned shite per capita (mostly in North BTR), but who cares?

Some of Detroit's suburbs are actually still very nice and well laid out which was surprising to me. Having said that, there's no way I'd ever live there.