Best Suburbs to Buy a House [[Long-Term Outlook)

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I had not considered Canton, but I'll take a look. A bit far from Downtown Detroit and everything in Oakland County, but I'd probably end up visiting Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor more than I do now if I lived there.

The biggest risk you run settling on any of the inner ring suburbs closer to downtown is that they will most suspectible to flight from the adjacent neighborhoods in Detroit that are dealing with high crime, high poverty, poor schools and divestment.

I saw a recent projection from SEMCOG that the neighborhoods away from Detroit's core will continue to see a drastic decline in population in the coming years, and those people are all going to be moving into communities right outside the city's borders. You're already seeing this in Harper Woods, Southern Macomb County and even places like Southfield / Oak Park or Redford, and that trend shows no sign of reversing.