Oakland County recovery to take 15 years

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Oakland County's problem is that it often uses Detroit as its measuring stick, and feels very smug indeed. That is insane. It is to compare apples to oranges. Oakland County ought to be looking at affluent suburban counties all over the nation to assess its comparative economic standing. Such communities all over the country are suffering, though the semantics of "suffering" in those contexts are quite different than anything in either urban or rural America.

THANK YOU! I totally agree.

While it might be good political strategy for Oakland to use Detroit as a measuring stick, it still doesn't address the fact that Detroit and Oakland County are barreling towards the edge of the same cliff. There are several members of this forum who refer to Oakland County as the economic center of Metro Detroit. And if this is true, then Oakland County needs to own up to being a complete failure. Because this means that Oakland County has played the heaviest hand of anyone in making Metro Detroit a complete economic failure.

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THANK YOU! I totally agree.

While it might be good political strategy for Oakland to use Detroit as a measuring stick, it still doesn't address the fact that Detroit and Oakland County are barreling towards the edge of the same cliff. There are several members of this forum who refer to Oakland County as the economic center of Metro Detroit. And if this is true, then Oakland County needs to own up to being a complete failure. Because this means that Oakland County has played the heaviest hand of anyone in making Metro Detroit a complete economic failure.

It's too bad what happening in Oakland County but like every other municipality in the United States OC is suffering because of its own arrogance. Believing that the auto industry will stay the same forever, building walls to isolate and insulate themselves from Detroit and too much sprawl will kill your resources in the end. Add the lost of jobs, foreclosures and companies fleeing Michigan I can see why L. Brooks is predicting 15 years of hard times for the OC.