I attended St Henrys in Lincoln Park at the end of Fort Park, on Council Ave. Church and school now both defunct I believe. Some excellent childhood times. If we had time machines, this is where I would go.
Posted on 07/29/2017 10:37:51 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
Back in job market again after end of my current contract. I updated my listings (as a UNIX/LINUX C and C++ expert) on Dice and Monster the other day, and the phone began ringing off the hook.
Well, one recruiter wants to know if I am interested in full time work, direct hire, in Detroit, for the process control of a steel mill whose business is reportedly burgeoning.
This looks like a MAGA move to me, and the recruiter points out that it isn't all decay, there is rebuilding going on too.
My rhetorical question: how crazy does a high tech red neck have to be to make such a move? It can't be all bad -- this is Kid Rock territory after all.
To slum in order to MAGA or not to slum, that is the question.
If you’re talking about A K steel in Dearborn, its not a bad area. Its actually “downriver” of Detroit off of I-75.
If you decide to take the job, look for places to stay south of there. Lincoln Park, Taylor, Wyandotte are okay.
Plus you would be right by Ford world headquarters. And check out the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village while you’re there.
Doesn’t ‘nullandvoid’ know something about Detroit?
Your leap to a personal accusation gives the lie to your assertions.
I attended St Henrys in Lincoln Park at the end of Fort Park, on Council Ave. Church and school now both defunct I believe. Some excellent childhood times. If we had time machines, this is where I would go.
Businesses are moving to Detroit by the score. SO now I have to post more links in my continuing education campaign against the ignorance about my hometown city.
Auto seat maker Adient announces move to Detroit
Why moving to Detroit from New York was the 'best decision' for SPLT
Could Detroit become the next Silicon Valley?
Clawson's International Bancard, also twitter and more...
Dan Gilbert has almost singlehandedly brought back a city he loves. I can never thank him enough. Anyway I could do this all day. Detroit is a boomtown right now and there is a ton more of this stuff out there. But. I have a lake waiting for my husband and I and a few pups.
Where are you looking? How far north did you want to go? I can probably help you out with that if you need it, as I am around quite a bit up here. Have you considered Gaylord? They have a tremendous support system for seniors!
She leapt to personal accusations first. She called me a liar. The ultimate personal accusation, and the ultimate proof of who was taking the weather personally.
You could live in Wyandotte!! Drooling on the keyboard.
When we moved to Michigan from the west coast we also fell in love with the simplicity here, the everydayness of life, the lack of over-sophisticated pretense, and the down to life fun, genuine, friendly people. I am sometimes moved to tears by the incredibly huge difference. I slid on ice last winter into a snow bank on a very rural untraveled road. In less then ten minutes 3 vehicles had stopped and, strangers to myself and each other, they worked together to get me back on the road. You couldn't drag me out of this state. I only wish we had come here sooner.
75 degrees in Detroit today and humidity is 45%.
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check cost of housing and living, I bet its much lower than in comparable cities.
null and void lives in Nevada. 1rudeboy lives in Corktown but has not been around much at all lately.
A good starting point for persuasion is a good sense of humor.
Well, if I DO interview up there, I got to hook up with you, ma’am. It’s not like I’d have to plop into Detroit without anything more than proverbial luck to lean on.
Just to state an untruth, technical or not, makes you a liar. That’s a low hurdle to clear. This looks like an example of lying with statistics. 71% humidity in Detroit is not like 71% in Miami would be. Omaha, where I am, quotes 69%, a figure that would have had me aghast had I not been living here for years and realizing that it reflects night time and precipitation times. It isn’t sweat city.
You’re also coming on pretty snobbish about Arizona. Good for you, I suppose, but if we are trying to compare apples to apples and not apples to bananas, we’d have to look at temperatures too.
OK. You’re on the Detroit area chamber of commerce, ma’am? :-)
Not that you’d be a bad person to know. At least it looks like I don’t have to resign myself to living in a barbed wire compound if I’ve got a day job in Dearborn. I kid a little about that, but hey.
Sounds pretty humane to me.
I’m a spiritually weird guy, though. It seems that wherever I go, God has me dealing with some kind of bullies.
It’s a colossal nuisance while it goes on, even though yes I do win, in one way or another. My latest weird story is about a bully in Kansas City. I stood up to him when nobody else, apparently, was. He fell apart. Unfortunately, so did my job (a 3 month contract with 3 weeks to go) because he was the lead programmer on the project. But hey, they are not blaming me, which is an improvement over past encounters with bullies.
I guess I am a prophet-type fellow even though I don’t particularly embrace the role with cheer. If God wants me to stand up to bullies, God wants me to stand up to bullies. God knows how bullies pushed me around and even coaxed me into sucking up to them since when I was knee high to a peanut. I try to keep my doctrine orthodox. I’m not going to be greeting you with “guess what my guardian angels just said.” My faith is very wobbly though.
I didn’t state an untruth. 71% humidity in Detroit is 71% humidity, that is the published average. And in summer, when temps are high, it sucks. It’s sweat city in the Great Lakes region. I grew up there, I know. Though really as a kid the worst part about the humidity was actually in the winter. Makes the snow all slushy and it doesn’t stick together. All those cool snow time activities go away. Can’t make snowmen for crap, the snowballs are slushy. Great Lakes weather is, demonstrably, terrible. Now Detroit is a little nicer than Chicago where I grew up, being not a reclaimed swamp. But it’s still hardcore humid Snowbelt. A part of the world people are fleeing in droves.
I didn’t say anything about AZ thus any idea that I’m being snobbish about AZ is pure fiction. We want to AZ fine: it’s hot as hell. And this summer is REALLY humid. Weird monsoon season, the storms keep staying. Which is nice because we need the rain, but 74 degrees and 95% humidity sucks hard. But it’s an outlier, I’m betting in September they’ll announce we’re in an El Nino, that’s what happened the last summer like this. But it’s going to be swimming weather in the winter. Not much beats BBQing Christmas.
And in the end weather is YMMV. It doesn’t really matter what the rest of the world thinks if you like it.
So what kind of armament should I use if I have to face off with a jihadist (maybe the next kind of bully I would meet, if in Dearborn)?
Can you open carry AK-47 rifles in Michigan? OK, kind of half kidding.
But maybe I will be preaching the gospel to him instead. Spiritual jiu-jitsu move.
I think you’ve said more about your own personal comfort level than about anything objective. Don’t pretend to objectivity when that isn’t germane. You’re happier in Arizona — wonderful. Don’t prejudge the rest of humanity.
The notable thing about this creation of God called humanity is that he’s pretty jolly adaptable in most cases. Eskimos in Nunavut down to folks in Ecuador. And none are mounting huge complaint campaigns. The only continent where people aren’t natively living is Antarctica.
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