Smoking Necropolis?

Before we get to the why, we thought we should explain the whole 'smoking necropolis' thing lest our new neighbors get offended. When we finally decided to make the move in late summer, we discovered that we had developed an uncanny ability to see and hear things about this city that we had previously overlooked. One such thing was an article in Boston magazine (crediting Boston's bulletproof awesomeness to its high number of students - when they're not puking in front of your house, that is) which referred to Detroit as a 'smoking necropolis.' We ordinarily would have just shrugged, but this time we pointed and laughed. Sure, we knew that moving to a city with the nation's highest crime rate in a state with the nation's (almost) worst economy was counterintuitive, but a smoking necropolis? Now that's positively iconoclastic! Not that we've ever shrunk from that moniker, but the more we saw, the more we liked Detroit (and its environs). So we are off to the Smoking Necropolis just before Christmas, and we're really looking forward to it!