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Originally Posted by subterranean
I’m not dying on any crosses for TC or the Berkshires, but the reality is that there isn’t much difference between 3 and 5 hours.
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TC is twice the distance from Detroit as the Berkshires are from NYC and Boston. To me, that's a pretty sizable difference. The NYC CSA already extends to the Litchfields, in CT, on the Mass line. They're also basically next door to Hartford and Albany. There are about 40 million people in the NE corridor within a few hours of the Berkshires. In contrast, there are very few people living within the equivalent distance from TC. And the Berkshires have the Boston Symphony in the summer, one of the best art museums in America, one of the best colleges in America, etc.
But the previous conversation was a bit different. I recall you were saying TC was a great deal, and a good option for folks who like to travel. I disagreed (and would say the same about the Berkshires; too isolated, horrible for flights, and could never live there full-time).
The Berkshires are functionally different because they're filled with weekenders, and people who part-time telecommute. Lots of folks will work in NYC or Stamford a few days a week, then work the other half in their country house, whether on the East End of LI, the Hudson Valley, the Berkshires, etc. I seriously doubt that large numbers of Detroiters or Chicagoans are splitting their summer work weeks between TC and primary home. Now somewhere like St. Joseph (for Chicagoans) or Port Sanillac (for Detroiters), that I could see.
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Originally Posted by subterranean
TC may get it’s own rail line to Ann Arbor/Detroit and GR has rail to Chicago. People aren’t commuting to NYC from the Berkshires any more than people from TC or Grand Rapids are commuting to Chicago. Chicago money is all up and down the Western Michigan coast, though, just like NYC money is in Western Mass.
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There is no weekender rail line planned for TC. GR has nothing to do with TC. And no, the Berkshires line is strictly planned for weekenders. TC is at least as much Detroit as Chicago money; Chicago dominates everything south of Ludington, but NW Lower Peninsula is very Detroit-heavy.
And, yeah, if you're saying TC isn't like WV like the Berkshires aren't like WV, I agree, obviously. TC isn't poor, neglected and dying.