And it is also the network effect in finding those folks, need someone to make a weird prop or some special effect or certain sound. Someone knows somebody who knows somebody. Until the that knowledge is disassociated with the human social network a place still has value. BTW, linkedin is not that disintermediary.
I have been to detroit, I wanted to live the batman detroit dream. Better to move to Utah, Arizona or New Mexico. High taxes, corruption. The place needs the peace corps.