Originally Posted by
BrushStart
bailey, I'm not disagreeing with you that the 59% figure used in the article is a useless indicator, but I think the point is that the overall number of young, educated people is greater than before. Now, you're correct in asking "greater compared to what?," but the fact is that the author didn't use that statistic because it probably wouldn't have been as flattering to our fledgling progress.
In reality, the number of young, highly educated people living in greater downtown is growing, but I'm certain the overall number is still small compared to other cities that have been steadily binging on a diet of yuppies for years. You may question at what rate it is growing [[which would be nice to know), but I think what you have to take away from this is that Detroit is finally grabbing onto the trend. Yet, I'll admit that we downtowners are still a pretty elite group, and by elite I mean limited in number. However, we are tightly concentrated geographically, so it does give one the feeling of being in a diploma-rich environment.