[ironchef]

I guess I'm confused. Where (besides downtown) do you actually mean then? Downtown has plenty like the Supermercado, Honeybee, etc. As you start to go out, hit Grosse Pointe, Hamtramck, etc. there's quite a few as well (and the prices were pretty reasonable). So...can you be more specific about where there aren't grocery stores so there can be a reasonable discussion with concrete data?

[sitkack]

I'd have to dig up my notes. I was there in Sept for the auction for 10 days, drove a couple hundred miles over a couple days, just in Detroit. I probably went through Hamtramck a couple times, Grosse Pointe had almost no foreclosures.

I didn't buy anything, for a myriad of reasons. Nearly everything was ruined, could get something on the open market for lower marginal cost of repair. The only homes, and I say homes, worth buying were those clearly occupied, all by old people that had lived there for many years. I am not going to be that person.