Osler's Razor

Have you seen this story in the Atlantic: The Shrinking City That Isn't Actually Shrinking http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/06/detroit-the-shrinking-city-that-isnt-actually-shrinking/240193/

According to the Atlantic, people are leaving Detroit, but they are not going very far... merely to the suburbs, often the first ring burbs.

Thoughts? I am not in the least bit familiar with Detroit, so I have no idea if this story feels right or not. If these burbs feel like part of one metro or not.
 

David ~ In Detroit many of the suburbs have in the second ring (at least on the east side) have instituted and open enrollment policy in their school districts. In Grosse Pointe, one must live in the district to enroll in school, but further out that is not a requirement as it was in the past. The Detroit metro area has independent districts (always has) and this was something that was challenged about 1970 when school segregation was the issue of the day.

I've been in the Detroit metro area for the past week and been in DT Detroit on 3 separate occasions. Despite the blighted areas there are many vibrant areas one can enjoy.

Also the landscape of the city of Detroit is immense The development is along the riverfront moving out toward the suburbs as this is now available desirable land leaving large pockets of barren (former residential zones). It is really something that is hard to explain. Despite the current crisis it will take a good a couple generations to turn around as this didn't happen overnight.
 

please excuse my typing, I am coffee-less at this time.
 

If anybody out there is a YouTube fan, Charlie LeDuff (from FOX 2 News) has some good stories about the budget problems in the Police and Fire Departments.

Long stories short, ambulances break down with regularity, fire trucks leak water, coverage is so poor that the Fire Department can't cover more than one major fire at once, the remaining open firehouses have raw sewage leaking in the basements, and the Police Department lacks basic tools (like in-car computers) that most other major and suburban departments take for granted.

How the rank-and-file are able to get anything done at all is beyond me. I get that LeDuff and local FOX news can be sensational, but if even half of what he's reporting is accurate, I'm surprised the clearance rate is as high as 8.7%.
 

Charlie LeDuff (Fox 2 news) had a great piece where he responded to a 911 call about a woman who had her house broken into and thought the burglars were still in her house. He sat there with the woman for 4 hours before the police showed up. Pretty amazing.