like 700,000 citizens, it too has endured. ♪ >> who lives here? >> some would say it's an abandoned city. this neighborhood, i mean, working class. i actually live like a mile and a half that way but it's completely different environment. >> george, born and raised in southwest detroit. >> it's weird, like in detroit, it's super contrast in like certain senses. if you go down jefferson towards gross pointe, it's like once you hit gross pointe it's beautiful million dollar estate homes but right before that, it's the slums.