This is my experience as well pre Covid. I switched jobs in 2021 and have not been back down town so who knows how much of this still applys. I worked in down town Detroit for ten years but lived in the suburbs. Once Rocket Mortgage and associated Dan Gilbert businesses moved down town there was a lot more activity and stuff going on in a couple square mile area. There's still a lot of run down area's surrounding the fairly nice down town area. If I had started working five years later I would have probably lived down town instead of the suburbs.