Be really careful about cheap Detroit homes as they can come with a backlog of property taxes.
Based on the domain, I expected this to be about literally moving Detroit somehow, either figuratively by relocating things or literally by physically moving the land (like Marble Hill but at a much larger scale: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Hill,_Manhattan" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Hill,_Manhattan</a>)
I thought they might be trying to relocate the government, as in annex some unincorporated land nearby, deannex some or all of the current city, and start over.
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I'll get asked where I identify as "from" since I've moved around a lot as a kid, and without fail I'll respond 'Detroit'.<p>There's so much history and culture to explore; along with tons of huge parks.<p>If I had to leave Tokyo, would definitely be up there.
Can we add the word "to" to the title?<p>Or how about "program to incent people to move to Detroit"
$1000 to move to Detroit is an incredible lowball.
Go for their Techno: Movement fest is a pilgrimage!
Does it come with a private security detail?
I would want to know exactly where I was, but downtown Detroit is like other big city places.
Not needed! All that hyperbole around Detroit is way overblown.
do they mean move "to" detroit...?
Say Nice Things About Detroit.<p>I love Detroit. A city overflowing with history and character. The thing that struck me the most about Detroit was the <i>pride</i>. The people who live there love their city in a way I have not seen elsewhere. I encourage everyone to visit. It was nothing like what I expected.<p>My roots are firmly planted in Seattle now but just a few years ago I was seriously considering a move. If I ever left here Detroit is high on my list.
So an average of about $1600 to move to a place with a historically corrupt and incompetent local government, high crime, poor schools, dated infrastructure, and limited higher education access?<p>They'd need to add at least 2 zeroes to the end of that number to have any impact.
the future is already in Detroit, and it's been there for a while. It's getting distributed to the rest of the U.S now. It might be that going through the collapse to the other side is the quickest way forward, if so Detroit is already further along than the rest.<p>although it may also be that I am just a cynic.
> limited higher education access<p>Michigan has some of the best universities in the country, dunno what you’re talking about. University of Michigan is 45 minutes away and it’s ranked #23 in the world according to <a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/latest/world-ranking" rel="nofollow">https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin...</a>
Wayne State is just downtown too, it's not bad at all.
Yes UM is a good school, but it's not in the city. It's one of the many reasons the suburbs or Ann Arbor itself are much more appealing.<p>And that's one world class university in the entire region. Compare that to Boston, SF, LA, DC, Chicago, Pittsburgh and others.
I mean if you’re going to say the university has to be literally within city limits, then I don’t see how Boston counts either (Harvard and MIT are in Cambridge) or SF (Stanford is a longer drive than Ann Arbor is from Detroit), or LA (UCLA is a nightmare of a drive from downtown). Are we really going to split hairs and say Ann Arbor doesn’t count as nearby Detroit but Stanford counts as nearby SF? Come on.<p>The Detroit metropolitan area includes Ann Arbor, it’s in the same commute range. Yes if your main goal is to <i>attend</i> a university, you should live closer than the nearby metropolis, regardless of which university you choose. It doesn’t mean Detroit has “limited higher education access”.<p>And there’s plenty of other quality universities nearby. Michigan has a lot of faults but lack of quality universities isn’t one of them. Unless your standards are “it’s not Stanford or Harvard”, in which case you’re just being unreasonable.
Pittsburgh mentioned
$1,000? They can't be serious?
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