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I never claimed to know more about Windsor than you. No worries. I just think a border isolates the influence of one city to another. Windsor has grown as an important city in it's own right and I feel like this "Detroit-Windsor" talk is demoting it to the status of a commuter town. It's not like a John Smith in Windsor is commuting across the border 5 days a week to work. You see where I'm coming from?
I never claimed to know more about Windsor than you. No worries. I just think a border isolates the influence of one city to another. Windsor has grown as an important city in it's own right and I feel like this "Detroit-Windsor" talk is demoting it to the status of a commuter town. It's not like a John Smith in Windsor is commuting across the border 5 days a week to work. You see where I'm coming from?
Somewhere in the neighbourhood of 3000 Windsorites work in Detroit. I don't know the numbers, but Detroiters work here too. We go to their clubs, they come to ours. We go to Tigers games, Wings games, the Fox, Cobo, etc, etc......
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I agree though, we are not a commuter town. We are our own city, with our own thing going on........now. But frankly, if it wasn't for Detroit and the automobile industry, or the easy access it has always provided to the American market, we would likely be just another sleepy border town, regardless of what we manufactured.
The "Windsor-Detroit" thing does nothing but benefit us. It isn't an embarassment. Detroit is an amazing city. You probably could not find more staunch supporters of that city, than the citizens of Windsor. Not even within the United States, including Detroit's surrounding 'burbs.
We truly are an international metropolis. BOTH cities promote eachother as a "Two Nation Destination". We have historically, & selflessly came to eachothers rescue in times of turmoil. We have celebrated eachothers accomplishments, and lifted eachother during our failures. We regularly conduct international events, for our OWN amusment.
Such as the fireworks, which just occured:
The tug boat races:
And the tug of war across the river (not actually across anymore - safety) We won, btw.
So, what I'm saying here, is no, a border does NOT isolate the influence of one city to another.
The same could be said for Detroit, though, right? Without it's proximity to the Canadian border, maybe some other city in Michigan would have become "Motown".
The same could be said for Detroit, though, right? Without it's proximity to the Canadian border, maybe some other city in Michigan would have become "Motown".
Proximity to Canada made Detroit what it was? I am really not sure about that.
The same could be said for Detroit, though, right? Without it's proximity to the Canadian border, maybe some other city in Michigan would have become "Motown".
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