Originally Posted by
southofbloor
This is an old thread but have to jump in. Hope you're still thinking about it - I grew up in South Windsor from a Detroit/Windsor family and now live in cabbagetown / Toronto. I miss it down there, but if I moved back I would probably be making a jump to buy in Indian Village in Detroit. Beautiful and great community. There are a lot of good parts of Windsor - south Windsor is a nice suburb with great houses and pools, but Walkerville is terrific as is Riverside Drive. And Windsor is a friendly place - the economy is depressed, no kidding, but there are also a lot of people who are doing well and don't want to be anywhere else, and even if they aren't doing very well people help each other. If you are used to business Toronto you are going to be overwhelmed by how friendly the place is.
The Detroit river is really amazing and kind of magical with its islands and lakes - when you move away you miss the freighters' fog horns in the night.
Detroit is a mess but I love it and miss it - I think about it every day. Once you get used to Detroit's post-apocalyptic flare and are able to navigate its terrible racial divides [[really brutal if you're used to Toronto) you start to find out that the things that are good there [[people, entrepreneurial opportunities, architecture, food, small town friendliness, arts/culture) are unique and pretty fantastic. There are a lot of interesting people in Detroit doing innovative things in adverse circumstances.