Blues lead way back to urban core

[Bham1982]

Not to people who live downriver. If you look at a map, downtown is centrally located to the majority of the metro area.

I guess we'll agree to disagree, because I don't see this at all.

I see downtown on the very fringe of the metro. Canada and Lake St. Clair aren't supplying workers, and Detroit proper and Downriver have relatively small worker counts.

The population center would likely be somewhere around Southfield.

And, it's purely anecdotal, but from my two years working downtown for a professional firm, I don't think 10% of employees worked in the city proper [[and none, to my knowledge, were from Canada).

I would bet that if you took a Detroit firm and a Southfield firm, and then drew a 10-15 mile radius around their respective workplaces, you would capture a ton more employee residences in the Southfield firm. IMO, Southfield, as unattractive as it looks, has an incredibly convenient location, with easy access to basically everywhere, from Downriver, to Livingston, to Macomb.

[GOAT]

I guess we'll agree to disagree, because I don't see this at all.

I see downtown on the very fringe of the metro. Canada and Lake St. Clair aren't supplying workers, and Detroit proper and Downriver have relatively small worker counts.

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Not true at all. In fact appprox. 5,000 Windsor/Essex county residents work in the Detroit area. Most work at the hospitals close to downtown and many do in fact work in the downtown area.

[Bham1982]

Not true at all. In fact appprox. 5,000 Windsor/Essex county residents work in the Detroit area. Most work at the hospitals close to downtown and many do in fact work in the downtown area.

Assuming this number is correct, there are a couple hundred thousand folks working in the city of Detroit, so even if 100% of those Canadians worked in Detroit city limits, it wouldn't be remotely comparable to the suburban counties' worker counts.