I just spent a month and a half in Detroit, and I have to say, the standout emotion was optimism from the people I met, all of whom spanned the socioeconomic spectrum: president, CEO, and VPs of the Detroit YMCA (not exactly landed gentry, but well-off), the middle class neighbors we had near our housing, and the families of the elementary school kids we were tutoring which were in the poorest neighborhoods. I guess optimism is only natural after you hit absolute rock bottom five or six years ago and all but the most resolute left the city. I hear "there's nowhere to go but up" quite a few times. If someone really liked their grandkiddies, they would be buying up property in Detroit and holding onto it, it seems that things are going to improve, and moderately more intelligently after the wisening-up the city's getting from this bankruptcy ordeal.