🇺🇸 Detroit: Motor City, Bankruptcy Phoenix & Michigan's Beating Hear

📍 Fast Facts Founded: 1701 by French fur traders 🦊 Elevation: 204m (with industrial highs/lows to match) Nicknames: "Motown", "The D", "Paris of the Midwest" (pre-1960s) 🌦️ Climate Mood Swings Summer: Hotter than a Mustang's engine (avg 29°C, spikes to 32°C+) Winter: Colder than a banker's heart (rarely below -17°C) ❄️ 🏭 Industrial Muscle Big 3 HQs: Ford, GM, Chrysler (+ Stellantis) rule here 1/4 of U.S. cars born in Detroit (BYD/Tesla moving in quietly) 🔌 Workforce: 40% in auto jobs ("What’s your line?" = "Line worker") 🏟️ Sports Glory (& Scandal) Little Caesars Arena: Pistons + infamous "Malice at the Palace" 🏀👊 Comerica Park: Tigers’ home (and $12 hot dogs) 🌭 Ford Field: Where Lions break hearts annually 🏈💔 📉 Rise & Fall (& Rise?) 1950s Peak: 1.8M people (Motown music, muscle cars) 2013 Bankruptcy: $18B debt (largest U.S. municipal collapse) 💸 2024 Comeback: Gilbert’s downtown empire (think "Amazon but for buildings") Midwest’s cheapest skyscrapers ($1/sqft deals!) 👥 Demographic Drama 82% Black at peak (now ~77%)—still America’s blackest big northern city White flight: Suburbs bloomed as city shrank 🚗💨 #MotorCity #FromRustToRevival #DetroitVsEverybody 🚘✨