Move Detroit

Post by jen20 » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 3:05 PM UTC

SilverElfin wrote: post #43

wenc wrote: post #29

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I recommend visiting Detroit to update your priors. I first visited in 2000 and it was blighted. I visited again in 2025 and it’s actually nice (downtown Detroit and surroundings). There’s even a Microsoft office there.

One surprising thing is how quickly it got blighted. Felt like just a few years. I wonder why that is

> One surprising thing is how quickly it got blighted.

I don't think this is actually true - either that it happened quickly, or that how quickly it happened was a surprise. Detroit (the city, which was always the "problem") depopulated from the 1950s onwards as the major industry moved to the suburbs, and the effects were obvious even in the 1960s. It took another 40-50 years to hit the bottom though.

That said, the population is now growing again (since 2021).

Post by bpt3 » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 10:57 AM UTC

kjkjadksj wrote: post #98

bpt3 wrote: post #94

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Doesn't matter. UCLA is 16 miles from downtown LA, CalTech is about 13 miles. I had to look it up because of the now multiple Detroit apologists who are acting like Brentwood is on the moon and Pasadena is on Mars to make sure I wasn't completely losing my mind. UM is 43 miles from downtown Detroit, and there isn't some sort of express route guaranteed to be traffic-free that you can take to get there. Like I said be…

The difference is 96 in detroit is moving at 60mph pretty much all times of the day. You don’t reach those speeds in socal until like 9pm.

And it still doesn't matter because the point is that there is much better access to higher education and its ancillary benefits in LA, not that a commute that no one has any reason to make is longer at times than it would take on average to reach the best university in the Detroit metro area.

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