VERY interesting thread for me too...My spouse got a job in Detroit area, and I commute to visit on weekends from Toronto. We are thinking to live on the Windsor side as well..but don't know if I want to leave Toronto. I really enjoy spending time in Detroit...and would move there [[selling my Toronto home would get me a great house there)..but of course I can't do that because I am Canadian. I have seen articles in the Toronto Star saying that The Windsor area is a great place to settle, because the weather is so much better than anywhere else in Ontario. I wonder if the boarder was more open and allowed Canadians to settle on the Detroit side, and travel back home to work, if it would help bring more investing into the area to help.