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I think you make a good point. You shouldn't write off the whole Detroit area because of a few articles about specific neighborhoods. But Detroit/Warren/Dearbor

I think you make a good point. You shouldn't write off the whole Detroit area because of a few articles about specific neighborhoods. But Detroit/Warren/Dearborn essentially have the same GDP as San Jose/Sunnyvale/Santa Clara yet twice as many people live in the Detroit area https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP19820 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP19820 https://www.bea.gov/regional/bearfacts/pdf.cfm?fips=19820&areatype=MSA&geotype=4 https://www.bea.gov/regional/bearfacts/pdf.cfm?fips=19820&ar... https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP41940 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP41940 http://www.bestplaces.net/metro/california/san_jose-sunnyvale-santa_clara http://www.bestplaces.net/metro/california/san_jose-sunnyval...

mikeyouse 9y ago
That only strengthens my point though -- The original commenter said we should just pay everyone to leave since there's no hope of sustaining an economy there. If you can pay 4 million people to leave, you can pay to fix whatever services they are lacking -- and then you'd have 4 million people in a area with hundreds of large companies and good government services!