1. You're obsessed with food from Downtown Detroit
Whether it's getting pressed juices from Drought, or a truffle fries from The Dime Store, you know there's no shortage of great food downtown. In fact, you tend to spend all of your money there. You may even owe your bank money from the amount of food you purchase. It's just so good.
2. You truly believe you have the best radio stations
Between 95.5, 98.7, 96.3 and 97.9, there's no shortage of good music for those of us still without aux cords. You've dreaded long drives since you were little because you knew there wasn't going to be anything worth listening to on the radio, and you HATE talk radio.
3. You say you're from Detroit
You're not. You know you're not. You're from a suburb that no one has ever heard of, and it's smaller than five square miles. There's no point in trying to describe the difference between Grosse Pointe Farms and Grosse Pointe Park, or describe the exact location of Northville. You just say you're from Detroit because it's easy and everyone knows where it is.
4. Coney Island
You spend your weekend nights craving chili cheese fries and a strawberry milkshake, and a Hani, and well... just about everything else on the menu. You can get breakfast whenever, and there's no chili like coney chili. It's the Waffle House of metro Detroit and you can't seem to find that many coneys that close together anywhere else in Michigan.
5. The malls
You know to avoid Eastland at all costs, Partridge rocks in the summer because there are cute puppies, but it's the absolute worst in the winter, and you think Somerset is huge. As it turns out, though, it's not actually that big compared to malls around the rest of the US. Still, it has the best stores and a Haagen-Dazs in the food court.
6. Lake St. Clair
If you have a boat, it's on Lake St. Clair. You know it's not the best for water skiing or tubing because it's always wavy, and it's not nearly as big as any of the Great Lakes, but you love it anyways. You can see Canada, so there's not much to complain about.
7. Speeding
You've never been anywhere else where people speed as much as they do in Metro Detroit. Whether it's going 80 in the 55 on the freeway, or the guy who passes you going 95 down Jefferson towards Downtown, no one speeds as much as Metro Detroit-ers.
8. Detroit Apparel
You own six Detroit Hustles Harder t-shirts, five Detroit Vs. Everybody tanks, a winter classic jersey, a Tigers jersey, and somewhere in the back of your closet, you recently dug out your Pistons jersey from the early 2000's. You rep Detroit everywhere you go. And no matter how many times the Lions lose, you still wear their jersey, too.
9. Concerts
Trips out to the Palace or down to the Fillmore are common. The best artists come to Detroit, and you can't miss a concert. You never know when they're going to come back, or at least that's what you tell your parents because you know they'll be back next year. And the next. And the next five years after that.
10. 7/11
They're in no way specific to Metro Detroit. They're all over the US. But somehow, Metro Detroit-ers seem to be just a little more obsessed with 7/11 than anyone else, though. They're like the Wawa of the north. Bored? Go to 7/11. Thirsty? Go to 7/11. Hungry? Go to 7/11. There's never really a bad reason to go to 7/11, mostly because there's never a bad time for a Slurpee.
