Study: Millenials Who Want Big Homes Should Look In Detroit

detroit.curbed.com ^ | December 30, 2015 | Michelle Goldchain

[hout8475]

Apparently, Detroit Millennials get a lot of bang for their buck. In comparison to cities like New York or San Francisco where Millennials can only afford 165-square-feet and 135-square-feet, respectively, Millennials in Detroit can afford a whopping 3,205-square-foot abode. That number is larger than the national average size of a newly-constructed single-family home, which was 2,453-square-feet in 2014.

[Last Dakotan]

Detroit's problem quite succinctly is that the white people left;

[Pelham]

“Hell one Freeper from Detroit says it’s a great place to raise kids.”

And they learn to shoot at an early age.

[1rudeboy]

It's a Good Thing that the people who enjoyed that nice home long ago are certainly not around to see these evil days.

Yeah, with all the urban hipsters moving in.

Thousands of downtown Detroit apartments are on the way, Detroit Free Press, January 3, 2016

[zeugma]

The downside, of course, is that you have to live in Detroit.

[jjotto]

A governor of Minnesota, in response to business relocation ads from South Dakota, famously remarked, “You still wake up the next morning in South Dakota.”