Quote Originally Posted by aj3647 View Post
Apples and oranges. Those cities aren't anything like Detroit and their unique circumstances and characteristics make comparisons pointless. Different demographics, different locations, different economies, different histories, different everything.

For starters, every one of those cities has a mass transit system. Detroit doesn't.
Henry Ford was not a big fan of Banksters, so finance never became a big deal in Detroit. When Finance became the way to siphon money out of the economy, Detroit didn't have the big suckers to get it's share. So it got sucked dry by Wall Street and the commodities markets.