Detroit: America's Next Tech Boomtown

jfruh writes: "Over the past few years, the growth rate in Detroit tech jobs has been twice the natural average. The reason is the industry that still makes Detroit a company town: U.S. automotive companies are getting into high tech in a big way, and need qualified people to help them do it. Another bonus: the rent is a lot cheaper than it is in San Francisco. '[A]ccording to Automation Alley's 2013 Technology Industry Report, the metro Detroit area grew to a total of 242,520 technology industry jobs in 2011, representing a 15% increase from the 2010 level of 210,984 technology industry jobs. No other benchmarked region had greater technology industry growth than metro Detroit in this period. Further, according to the report, this growth helped propel metro Detroit to a ranking of fourth among the 14 benchmarked regions, passing San Jose."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Detroit is the asshole of Michigan.
Flint is 50 miles up it.

I'd buy that for a dollar!

[Thud457]

I heard that they gave Omni Consumer Products^W^W^W Google to clean up the town. They're doing something with drones.

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[ShanghaiBill]

Just wait till the next shoe drops on California and your water bill hits $600 a month

Get rid of your lawn, and you can cut that by 90%. I replaced my lawn with a cactus garden.

unless of course you are poor and then they subside that so no one dies of thirst.

Water subsidies go to rich farmers, not poor people.

Now get off my cacti.