Possible move to Detroit, please help/berate me.

[Rolfsy]

Having grown up in Pittsburgh and spent my adult life in the Detroit region: Pittsburgh, hands down. Its like someone stepped in detroit and scraped it off on san francisco. So you get postindustrial grit, but most of the old buildings still exist and the topography is amazing. the region hasnt spent the last half century trying to nuke its core city, and it really shows. Population is almost canadian in character - very little of the dog eat dog vibe of se michigan.