A workforce that looks like Detroit

**maverick1** · February-26-15, 03:51 PM

Nolan Finley has several op-ed about the changes in Downtown and Midtown and how Detroit demographic isn't reflected in it. I don't understand why he doesn't get it. Who does he think the 250,000 people who left between 2000 and 2010 were? The Detroit residents who would be in the current Downtown and Midtown moved to NYC, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, etc. Is this common thought in the area? Are people that clueless on Detroit's economic demographic? In one breath you talk about poverty and/or the working class in the city and then wonder why they aren't in Midtown during happy-hour.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opi...ions/24015283/

**sumas** · February-26-15, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by maverick1

Nolan Finley has several op-ed about the changes in Downtown and Midtown and how Detroit demographic isn't reflected in it. I don't understand why he doesn't get it. Who does he think the 250,000 people who left between 2000 and 2010 were? The Detroit residents who would be in the current Downtown and Midtown moved to NYC, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, etc. Is this common thought in the area? Are people that clueless on Detroit's economic demographic? In one breath you talk about poverty and/or the working class in the city and then wonder why they aren't in Midtown during happy-hour.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opi...ions/24015283/

Nolan Finley is clueless.

**Bham1982** · February-26-15, 04:38 PM

Originally Posted by maverick1

I don't understand why he doesn't get it. Who does he think the 250,000 people who left between 2000 and 2010 were? The Detroit residents who would be in the current Downtown and Midtown moved to NYC, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, etc.

LOL, no. It's you who don't "get it".

The people who left Detroit between 2000-2010 are in the suburbs, or down South. They're overwhelmingly middle class black families from the city fringes. They are not downing cosmos in Manhattan or LA; they're living the suburban ideal in some random suburb you probably never heard of.

**maverick1** · February-26-15, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by Bham1982

LOL, no. It's you who don't "get it".

The people who left Detroit between 2000-2010 are in the suburbs, or down South. They're overwhelmingly middle class black families from the city fringes. They are not downing cosmos in Manhattan or LA; they're living the suburban ideal in some random suburb you probably never heard of.

This is partly true. As far as families this is true. But single and educated? I think most of those left the state. My single friends at that time didn't move to the suburbs they left the state.