8 Mile Road runs east-west and is 8 miles north of downtown Detroit. It's extra-wide with a land island in the middle and serves as the border separating the inner ring blue collar suburbs from Detroit city limits. As a kid, we would go east, west, or north from8 Mile but very rarely south into Coleman Young's personally designed festering crime and drug riddled Zombie Apocalypse BLM paradise.
Coleman Young is thirty years dead so Detroit has gotten better.