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**313WX** · September-12-17, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by Bham1982

U-M is a 40 mile drive west from downtown Detroit.

Again, who cares.

In the sunbelt cities that everyone's crazy about, 40 mile drives / commutes between destinations is perfectly routine. Why should Detroit be held to a different standard?

**Bham1982** · September-13-17, 06:00 AM

Originally Posted by 313WX

Again, who cares.

In the sunbelt cities that everyone's crazy about, 40 mile drives / commutes between destinations is perfectly routine. Why should Detroit be held to a different standard?

Name a Sunbelt city that is associated with an institution 40 miles away, in a different metro area.

U-M isn't a Detroit school. Barely anyone from U-M ends up in Detroit, and the linkages are pretty weak. It's a global university that happens to be an hour away from Detroit, but the grads end up throughout the world. In contrast, somewhere like MIT is obviously intertwined with the Boston tech ecosystem.