[adamjcook]

> No one would live in Detroit because it’s bleak and sprawling. San Francisco is beautiful and cosmopolitan. The trajectory of Detroit is irreversible and structural

As someone who just moved to Detroit (in October of 2022), I could not disagree more.

This city is clearly on the upswing and it is immensely beautiful.

Do not sleep on Detroit.

If anything, it is absurd for this "article" to compare whatever is happening in San Francisco to a completely unrelated population decline event in Detroit that spanned over 70 years.

In other words, I am not sure why Detroit would be brought into this "analysis" at all. That is what is absurd.

[Brian_K_White]

They only brought it up to blame it on unions. The entire piece is garbage.

[CamperBob2]

Who else is there to blame? Autoworkers ganged up on their employers and attempted to capture more value than they contributed. The employers reacted predictably, and diversified their production across (many) other states.

Unsustainable is unsustainable, regardless of politics.