There is no graffiti in Michigan

[Latimer]

Not simply is there no grafiti in the expected places--the bombed-out looking neighborhoods of inner-city Detroit and the freeways that pass through--but no grafiti on the suburban freeways and highways, streets and alleys, or in the suburbs both rich and poor. I was staying in lower middle-class Dearborn but was also in middle-class Ferndale and spent a fair amount of time in Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills, which are as posh as just about any place in the US. And although I passed through Eminem territory many times, not once did I see any grafiti. Not only did I never see grafiti, but I also never even saw signs--such as painted-out areas on walls and freeway structures--that grafiti had ever been there. Lunch in Ann Arbor on the way to the airport--as quiet and orderly as the airports of Munich and Zurich--where again I failed to find any grafiti, convinced me that there is no grafiti in the state of Michigan.

I live in Los Angeles, the city that gave the world grafiti, and with the exceptions of Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, have seen grafiti in every good-sized city and/or its suburbs I've visited.

Why is Detroit--which has such a bad rap--the exception?

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Re: There is bo grafiti in Michigan

There are a few places in Seattle graffiti free, but I can't explain why.
Everywhere else in the city is a graffiti explosion.

 

[Latimer]

Re: There is bo grafiti in Michigan

^Make that: "There is no grafiti in Michigan."

 

[Nude_Dude]

Re: There is bo grafiti in Michigan

^Make that: "There is no graffiti in Michigan."

Thank you, Latimer , for clearing that up

I was scratching my head - thinking what the hell is body odour graffiti ?

 

[rareboy]

Re: There is bo grafiti in Michigan

Grafiti is so over.

 

[Alistair]

Re: There is bo grafiti in Michigan

Kids these days are too lazy to graffiti

 

[Peloso]

Re: There is bo grafiti in Michigan

^
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Come to New York.

 

[Zeno Lorea]

I live in Los Angeles, the city that gave the world grafiti

That must be why the word comes from Italian, right? All this ancient graffiti in Pompei musta been the work of Californian immigrants.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Re: There is bo grafiti in Michigan

Kids these days are too lazy to graffiti

Graffiti hah!

TikTok! That's what's kids are doin' now!