I lived in Ann Arbor BRTD. It is more of a suburb now, than then. If you have to live in the Detroit metro area, and have a family, where would you live? That kind of answers the question no?
Awesome, me too. Whereabouts? I was in Bursley hall for a couple years (engineering school).
I don't agree that it's a suburb, though. It certainly has its own culture very distinctive from metro Detroit, as well as its own shopping, commercial, and financial centers. And there is still some rural farmland between Ann Arbor and Detroit (not much, but some).
Only Wayne County outside Detroit, Oakland, and Macomb Counties should be considered Detroit suburbs. Washtenaw County is definitely not part of the metro area.