Having grown up in Michigan and since moved to Silicon Valley, I can say that Detroit and San Jose are not really comparable. The weather in San Jose is much, m

Having grown up in Michigan and since moved to Silicon Valley, I can say that Detroit and San Jose are not really comparable. The weather in San Jose is much, much nicer. It's sunny and warm most of the year. The four-month winters in Detroit, with their freezing cold and grey skies, are never going to have the same kind of draw. Ann Arbor is indeed a nice town, and is a reason that people might want to live in Ann Arbor. Living in Detroit so that one might occasionally visit Ann Arbor an hour away makes no sense. It's true, we're not talking about a landlocked post-apocalyptic industrial wasteland. But it pretty much is an industrial wasteland. An apocalyptic de-industrializing wasteland, if the ever-ongoing decline of the Big Three auto companies can be regarded as a sort of creeping apocalypse.