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Originally Posted by hudkina
To be fair, people in Windsor and Detroit listen to the same radio stations, watch many of the same TV stations (I actually grew up watching the Canadian version of Sesame Street and a huge chunk of Canada gets Detroit's local stations), follow the same sports teams, go to the same concerts, use the same airport. Young people in Detroit go into Windsor for the lower drinking age, Windsor residents come to Detroit for the cheap shopping. Many Windsor residents go to school at Wayne State and some even work at the Detroit Medical Center or Downtown in office towers. You don't technically need a passport to cross the border, as Michigan residents can get what is called an Enhanced License so that they can cross into Canada with ease. While there isn't much commuting occuring between the two cities, everything else suggests a single metropolitan area.
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I'd be interested to see the 'true' numbers as well especially since the 2-mile and 3-mile ones would include very high density neighbourhoods of Windsor. In fact I'd be willing to bet you can double those numbers listed (at the very least).
Commuting isn't a huge number but there are still 5,000 people who work on one side and live on the other.
Everything you said is true - many of us even have season tickets to Detroit sports teams, just look at how our transit system has direct service to the stadiums on game days and how full all the buses always are. Our transit system goes into another country but doesn't even cross into our own suburbs! People here are hugely supportive of everything Detroit and generally don't give a crap about Toronto for example.