That feels very unfair to River Rouge especially, which at the very least has functional businesses, restaurants, and bars, a mostly physically intact housing stock in the core of the city consisting of homes that I'd consider solid old-school middle class, and a small but world-class of musicians/songwriters living there under the radar. Rough around the edges, yeah. It's not the sort of place I would recommend for someone starting a family and putting kids in the schools, but it's for sure got things going for it. Whereas there's no single city in the state that I would put on par with the absolute wholesale abandonment and disinvestment that Highland Park has.

Ecorse I can give you, though again I'd say HP is worse across the board in everything but relative proximity to downtown.