Last Saturday I realized the value of a vibrant, balanced, artistic and active community when we invited a young man for an interview with our company WIT Inc. We invited this young man from Milwaukee, WI and paid more than $1200.00 to come over the weekend for few hours to meet us in person. After meeting for an hour so at our office conference room, my colleagues and I realized that we would definitely like this person to be part of our team. We started telling him more and more about our company and started selling him on living in Michigan. We even joked that we have this kind of weather (65-70 and Sunny) 8-9 months during the year.
Seriously, we were all telling him about different cities nearby where he can settle in. We told him about Royal Oak & Rochester area. We even wanted him to see one of the cities for himself before he took off. So we took him to Kruse and Muer in Downtown Rochester. We had a great meal there and eventually said goodbye to him.
Thinking back later in the day, I realized how sublimely, we were selling this young man on two of the best known areas (Royal Oak and Greater Rochester). How important it is for all of us to be part of a community which has downtown (local bike shops, flower shops, bakeries, restaurant, cafes, ice cream parlor etc.), Library, Hiking and biking trails, Art centers, Theaters, Parks, clean streets etc.
Though I have been in living Rochester Hills for more than 13 years now, last Saturday was the first time I had fully realized the value of where I live and how lucky I am to be a part of a great community.
Thinking further if Detroit regains its former glory then all the cities surrounding it and the state as whole would benefit from it. We no longer have to sell a specific town or two to a prospective newcomer.
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