User blog comment:Metool Bard/Discussion: Is Royal Woods in the Rust Belt?/@comment-32967505-20180313062145

Many if not most of Detroit's suburbs are affluent, especially near Ann Arbor. Royal Woods is in reference to Royal Oak, Savino's hometown, which while technically in the Rust Belt doesn't really portray that stereotype. The area stretches all the way through Chicago/N. Illinois into eastern Iowa.

Just because the area as a whole has suffered due to job loss doesn't mean there aren't cities or areas that were able to survive or even thrive.