I think what a lot of people have yet to realize is how much younger people such as myself yearn to live in city centers. We want to live in Detroit, where many, not all, people from older generations may not feel the same way. From a personal standpoint, I don't want to have to cut a lawn, fix a furnace, power wash my siding, deal with my hillbilly neighbor next door leaving his couch in his backyard and kids toys strewn all over his lawn. I've grown up in the suburbs all my life and despise the cookie cutter stripmall/subdivision suburbia hell I have lived in. I want to be able to walk to my destinations, not have to drive absolutely everywhere. In places like Royal Oak, Birmingham, and Detroit [[to a more limited extent) I would be able to do that. It's incredibly attractive to people like myself.