Metro Times: Detroiters Explain Their Reasons for Leaving

[Richard]

It would stand to reason as the middle income is being wiped out across the country,a decline in the neighborhoods would follow suit.

There is also a thread going back a few months about the middle class African Americans moving to the suburbs,what you are seeing is not Detroit specific,as the younger generation moves back to the city they are filling up the apartments as they get further along in their careers and start families they will shift to houses,most likely because they already established roots with in the city they will prefer to stay there .

A lot of the thought patterns are the same across the country - insert city name here - so although this is a Detroit centric forum is not a Detroit specific issue.

There are specific locals that are seed money friendly and people move there no different then moving to California to become an actor,but for anything else,people with money are always looking for ways to make more if somebody has a solid plan to submit they can find funding in Detroit no different then anywhere else.

Its never been like you walk down to the corner and pick up a bag of cash and not everybody gets funded.

Ann Arbor seemed to be seed capital friendly before but Detroit also has been opening up lots of new avenues,when it comes to tech it is tough if not impossible to go door knocking on your own but there are groups that will take you by the hand and help.

Rivian did it,but not everybody with an idea is going to be a rivian.

Granted the region is slow on diversification as it has been auto centric for 100 + years and leadership is slow to adapt or maybe has pressure not to so losses related to that are par the course.