Metro Detroit

The Local Edit

Homes, neighborhoods & life around Metro Detroit.
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Written by people who live here

The Local Edit collects the observations we find ourselves sharing most often — how two towns twenty minutes apart can produce very different weeks, which downtowns reward a Saturday, what a school boundary actually means for an address, and how buying and selling tends to work here.

It is not a feed of market statistics. It is written for people deciding where to live. Start with the community guides if you are still weighing where to look.

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Kellogg Park in downtown Plymouth, Michigan

Plymouth, Northville or Canton? How to choose between them

Three towns, twenty minutes apart, and three very different weeks. What actually separates Plymouth, Northville and Canton — and how buyers usually end up deciding.
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