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Originally Posted by subterranean
With the exception of their tiny strip of downtown, Northville is your stereotypical exurban sprawl factory far away from anything worth caring about. It is surrounded on all sides by Northville Township and Novi, which is exactly the sprawly 🞵🞵🞵🞵 you say it’s not.
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Basically the entire city of Northville is walkable and older. That's about 6,000 people. Definitely no McMansion type developments. It's small, but I wouldn't call it tiny. Plymouth, to the south, has an even larger prewar core (actually 2 cores), though it isn't quite as cutesy/fancy.
Yes, the rest of the area is mostly sprawly hell, but what's the point? I thought you were extolling the relative benefits of Metro Detroit home prices. Almost all of Metro Detroit is sprawly hell. Have you seen Hall Road? Telegraph Road? Dixie Highway? The few parts that aren't sprawl hell are either fairly expensive or generally 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵. Exceptions like Birmingham or Ecorse are off the table for most.
I can think of a few older cores that aren't 🞵🞵🞵🞵 or expensive, but not many. Wyandotte (but bad schools and no way highly educated people will live next to factories downriver), Farmington (cute core but high taxes and declining school district), St. Clair Shores doesn't have a downtown but it isn't super sprawly, it's cheap and the schools are OK. Rochester has a cute downtown and is somewhat expensive but great schools and still cheaper than Bloomfield-Birmingham or Northville. Plymouth has a great core, pretty good schools and isn't crazy expensive.
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