Macomb County is fast becoming indistinguishable from Detroit. When we go back to Michigan to visit family in Fraser, Roseville, and St. Clair Shores, we can’t stay in nearby hotels any longer — have to stay over on the West side of town, in Troy. School choice has ruined the local school districts, and people are moving further out to ensure their children go to good schools. Why does the writer blame the people who moved out of Detroit, rather than blaming the politicians who made Detroit uninhabitable? Any businessman would be a fool to stay in Detroit and pay those taxes — Troy wouldn’t exist as it is today, but for the stupid Detroit politicians.
“Troy wouldn’t exist as it is today, but for the stupid Detroit politicians.”
BTW, the city of Troy, Michigan calls itself “The City of Tomorrow”.
Yes it would, please refer to my prior statement. It wasn't politics and taxes that made the people flee Detroit, it was their auto company created incomes that allowed them to purchase or build homes in what was once country land............
In all fairness to the neighborhoods of Detroit, those are houses that were built in the early 1900's, as was my grandparents house on Detroit's east side.
Forget the poverty, forget the politics, forget the urban blight, in today's society, anyone making 50k a year or more is not going to choose to live in one of those old run down neighborhoods.......
Could you add, Warren and Sterling Heights? Another machine-shop centric town, near Chrysler in it's hayday, Clawson...
Would they have all existed if they didn't get out of Detwaa and build all those business park streets along the numbered miles?
FWIW, many of these mom and pop shops are now vacant with all the changes in the auto industry from Cad/Cam to the ISO movement and then the collapse....