New York hipsters are being encouraged to move to Detroit

This brings back patti smith's comment about New York to me, about finding a new city. I feel it applies every bit as much to San Francisco.

The Godmother of Punk recalled coming to New York in 1967 when she was broke and the city was "'down and out,' and you could get a cheap apartment and 'build a whole community of transvestites or artists or writers.'" But today, she says, "New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city."

http://gothamist.com/2010/05/03/patti_smith_suggests_finding...

Detroit may or may not have a flourishing employment market or an arts scene or a critical mass of young professionals -- I don't know. One thing I know it doesn't have is an effective transit system and culture. Sorry, no deal.