I'm not saying things don't suck there; I just thought that was understood. But since they suck, hey look at this opportunity! To your point about management:

I'm not saying things don't suck there; I just thought that was understood. But since they suck, hey look at this opportunity! To your point about management: what do you mean? (I'm honestly asking.) Who should be in charge of making sure a town doesn't get lopsided with one industry, for example? And was that even a bad thing, considering how long things went well? Maybe in 20 years we'll look back and say "50 years of prosperity, 10 years of the dumps and now Detroit is doing great again. Not terrible."