Originally Posted by
iheartthed
I would pick San Diego over Detroit... But there isn't much Detroit can do to compete with San Diego's weather. However, I would probably pick Detroit over the rest of the top 5. Although Seattle is one of the only major cities I have never visited.
I've been doing a lot of travel this year and Detroit just has an "it" factor that not many other cities will ever be able to compete with. In some ways this has kind of always been obvious, since the city always ends up on some click bait list. This might not be obvious in our Detroit-centric bubble, but Cleveland, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, etc., just don't evoke curiosity and emotion the way Detroit does.
So long term I am not too worried about Detroit. There is already evidence that Detroit is setting up as the alternative to Chicago, which is exactly what we always thought it should be.