Looking at relocating for spouses new job to Detroit from LA. Any tips? Warnings? Stay where I am? Over saturated with PMs?

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Way cheaper cost of living in Detroit. I’d try to live in Royal Oak.

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I was able to keep my LA salary when I moved. But I was also filling a hole they couldn’t get anyone to move for.

I spent a good chunk of my career in Detroit - it’s my hometown. I came back to DET after 12 years in Los Angeles and only stayed another 6 years. The warning from me is that you’ll end up working on a car account and it will feel like in-house agency. The creative is dull, the clients are so vanilla, and the red tape to get any money approved (post bankruptcy woes) was frustrating - paying vendors was even worse (GM was net-90!!) . I feel lucky to have escaped and it didn’t ruin my career.

If you have kids and want the public schools live in either Grosse Pointe or west of Woodward Ave. If not - downtown is a pretty fun place to live right now.

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