Huggybear, great post.

Quote Originally Posted by R8RBOB View Post
This was a helluva of a post but it speaks the truth in why the suburbs are tapped out. The suburbs offered vast acres of lands and no taxes. Eventually, the question comes up on how do the suburban cities offset the money they are not getting from these businesses that setup shop in their communities? How do you pay for police, fire, the library? In regards, to the questions of the schools, Suburban communities decided that they would let Detroit kids fill seats in their schools to get the state money that would go to Detroit, however, due to the bad reputation that DPS has they can't recruit suburban kids to attend their schools to offset the losses that they are occurring.
Out-of-state flight of young couples and families is also hurting the region. Detroit's loss of population is dramatic and unprecedented but there are far too many For Sale signs in western Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. Some of the young people who head for the Chicago metro, the Sun Belt, and elsewhere for jobs may return one day to raise their kids, but not enough of them are doing so right now.