Detroit was undesirable when I was coming of age in the early 2000s. It was basically a no-go area, at least outside of a professional sporting event.
As a result, I never had the kind of big-city experiences—shopping in flagship downtown department stores, riding a subway, gazing up at massive skyscrapers—that many urban dwellers take for granted until I started going to Toronto, the capital of Canada’s Ontario province, for hockey during my high school and college years.
