When I go away from Michigan, it seems as if people can distinctly tell that I'm not from their "city" because I have the so called "Michigan accent." I went away to North Carolina and some random girl at the mall asked me where I was from because she's never seen a person with my type of style and she was intrigued by it. I was a little flattered and a little weirded out by the whole situation, but I laughed and for that moment it made me feel proud that my city has shaped my style to be that way. Detroit was given the nickname Detroit rock city because the majority of rock music originating in the city. Style is shaped by the music that you listen to, causing people to dress according to the music scene. Living in Warren and Macomb County, I find it funny when people from different counties come here because they have no idea how to pronouce the street names. I laugh when people try to say Dequindre, Schoenherr or Gratiot. However, I think its like that everywhere. People in the metro area never say we're on M-10, but always the Lodge. Usually people from out town can't play nor pronouce Euchre. Where you live shapes who you are and who you will become. Niki's Window is a story about an immigrant who wanted to make a name for himself and not be poor his whole life. Eventually that's what he did, but it seemed as if the topic of the article was about the city of Detroit and mostly the bad things that go along with it. The Dodge Brothers automobile shop helped to shape the city because they were pretty much the first ones to build the first car, along with Ford. I think that alone is a big accomplishment that just gets overlooked because people only want to talk about the bad stuff. Here's a reality check for all of you out there, murder, crime, carjacking's, drug wars, etc. goes on everywhere. It seems like you never hear about anything bad going on around the country, but then again since we live in Michigan, they're going to talk mostly about Detroit and portray it to be a "bad" city. Niki's Window mostly made Detroit look like a bad city, but decades ago it wasn't. It was a city that was trying to build up and yeah the money left, but I don't blame that on the city itself. I blame Detroit's problem on the government more or less. Get over the fact that Detroit is so bad because its not, everyone just fears for their "lives" because of what they read or hear, but don't believe it all ...