Posted on 07/29/2017 10:37:51 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
There are some fantastic suburbs in the Detroit area.
The worst days are behind Detroit. Can’t say the same for a lot of other cities.
I worked downtown Detroit for a few months back in the 80s.
In no uncertain terms, my boss made it clear that I was to make sure I left the office no later than 4:30 in the afternoon.
If you get outside of the cities, you would think sometimes you are in Alabama, rather than Michigan.
The thing I remember about Detroit in winter is that there are few sunny days. When there’s a sunny day in winter there, it’s an event.
Well it’s AK Steel in Dearborn.
Given that, what kind of logistics would avoid needing a Sherman tank and barbwire house?
I prefer desert life where wet winter days are an event and we generally maintain swimming weather through most of it.
One site claims that Kid Rock lives in Ortonville, Michigan:
https://www.mapquest.com/us/mi/ortonville-282031371
13609 s sunset blvd ortonville, Michigan
Another site claims that he lives in Clarkston, Michigan. Then there’s this:
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/detroit/index.ssf/2014/07/kid_rock_on_detroit_riverfront.html
Bear with me. I have a few more for you.
Every city has its nice parts. I live next to a city that has had one of the highest per capital murder rates in the country. The town I live in has some of the best schools and lowest crime rates in the country.
Drive five minutes and life is pretty bad.
You don’t HAVE to live in the middle of the crap to work there.
We get a lot of snow and we use a broom 95% of the time, or more often. It brushes right off. Powder.
Additionally we have a very dry climate. Average humidity in the summer here is 35%. The greatest springs and summers I have ever lived in and I have lived in lots of the country.
The only other place I have felt such a wonderful caress of a breeze on my face than Michigan was on the Black Sea in the Mediterranean. Michiganders live outside and with good reason. The weather here is positively seductive. You just don't want to go indoors.
I’ve got family in Michigan, I know they’re snow. It’s really just like Chicago snow: too humid and slushy to do anything cool with.
Average humidity in Detroit is 71%. And spring is just that brief window between the hateful cold and the hateful heat.
Sorry, the great snowbelt flight has spoke. The weather up there SUCKS, that’s why the people are leaving. Michigan and Detroit weather is awful, your state of hallucination doesn’t change the simple reality all your former neighbors have recognized.
St Louis is now the official murder capital of the country.
...football team too, don't forget swimming, boating, sunbathing on Lake Superior in January is the bomb, people sooooo courteous on I-696 at rush hour, why you would think they were family, BBQ'n in Rosedale Park after midnight, don't forget to bring enough for your new friends(just bring forks, spoons...they're so thoughtful, they bring their own knives and lighter fluid!)...let's see...did I miss anything?
Seriously though, did you ever hit .300 in little league? Tee-ball?...if yes, the Ilitch's will give you a $400B dollar/50yr. contract, all you have to do is put your baseball pants on, and when you talk to the media, just tell them everything your agents tells you to say, like, "I love it in Detoyt" "I try better tomorrow" "it long season, I no worry"...stuff like that.
There’s fantastic areas outside of Dearborn. Even Dearborn is not that bad. The further away you get from the city limits of Detroit the better it gets. I grew up in the Livonia/Farmington Hills area and there’s nothing wrong with most of the suburbs.
I hear that Dearborn is a nicely diversified suburb.
I’d live in a tent homeless first.
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