University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder School
<i>Waterloo is a sleepy, postindustrial city of 100,000, a little less than 200 miles northeast of Detroit.</i> 
Ummm ... Waterloo-Kitchener-Cambridge form the K-W region (these 3 blend together with indistinguishable border) of ~ 1/2 Million peoople. Hardly "sleepy" the region is know as Canada's Tech Triangle and has a vibrant corporate <i>and</i> startup economy. While it is 200 miles northeast of Detroit, it may as well be 2000 ... Detroit has no influence whatsoever. More accurate would be to say it is ~50 miles from Toronto.