The Press and Journal’s Lindsay Watling speaks to US voters as they await election results.
At the Riverfront Towers complex, the blocks look out to Canada.
The border runs along the middle of the Detroit River.
It’s so close, I could throw a stone from the bank and there would be a chance of it landing in Canadian water.
Yesterday, it was the site of one of many polling stations dotted around so-called Motor City.
Among those casting their vote was Jeffrey Brown, 31, from Ann Arbor, to the west of Detroit.
He said every night for the last month he had been looking over the river and asking himself: “Will I have to move there?”
He also described feeling like Michigan had suddenly become the “centre of the universe”.
“The whole world has been watching us for better or for worse,” he added.
Traditionally a Democratic state, it became an unlikely 11th-hour battleground as polls tightened.
In the final days, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both made appearances, as well as Barack Obama.
Also having her say was social worker Rosalind Jackson, 55, who said the key issue facing the next president was the large division between social classes.
She added: “We really don’t have a middle class any more. You have the wealthy and then you have the poor.
“I know this country was built on capitalism, but materialism has destroyed us as a nation of people because it has divided us.
“That’s our grave injustice.”
Osi Osman, an engineer at Ford Motors, said his overriding sentiment was one of relief that the campaign was at its end.
The 27-year-old, who recently moved to Detroit from Maryland, added: “It has been annoying. All this stuff back and forth, it has sounded like grade school students arguing.
“I am – and I think a lot of other people are too – glad that it’s coming to an end.”
He voted by mail last week because he wanted to get it over with.
Standing the regulation 20 feet away from the polling station was Norma Dotson-Sales.
The retired judge, 79, who was born in Chicago, was handing out leaflets on behalf of candidates for the Michigan Court of Appeals and Board of Education.
She said it had been “unbelievable” to have had a black president for the last eight years.
“I did not think I would see that in my lifetime,” she added. “It has been very humbling.”
