Quote:Unfortunately for Detroit, they hit the antithesis of the lottery. I'm not sure there is any "nice" spot of Detroit.

The airport's nice. Especially if you're leaving.

 

Quote:I spent over a month in St. Louis working just outside of the city, and staying down in Fenton across from an old closed manufacturing facility where Chrysler used to build their mini vans.  Fenton was a nice area similar to something like Mandarin here in Jax.  Decent neighborhoods, newer shopping centers, good restaurants, and nice hotels.  I got a good dose of STL during that month, and actually enjoyed my time there.  Great people.  Nice city.  VERY baseball focused.  The Rams were almost an afterthought with most people I spoke to, and I was there right around the draft.  Nobody was talking about it because spring training was about to end. 

I'll echo that. One of my oldest friends has spent his entire life in STL, and while he is and was a die-hard Rams fan from the day they arrived until the day they left, he readily acknowledged that if the Rams are winning, they get a nice following at the local level. If they're not winning, they're just "that other team" that people only go to see when they have a few bucks lying around and there's not a Cardinals game to go to instead.

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