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How crazy would I need to be to move to Detroit?

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: completelycrazy; crazy; detroit; gainesville; maga; michiganhellhole
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To: HiTech RedNeck

No projecting here. I don’t give a damn what anybody thinks of the weather where I live. Heck I wish more people hated it, town didn’t used to be this crowded.


101 posted on 07/29/2017 3:21:48 PM PDT by discostu (Things are in their place, The heavens are secure, The whole thing explodes in my face)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I wish you much luck. You will do great.

Just stay away from 8 mile. It hasn’t recovered yet.

5.56mm


102 posted on 07/29/2017 3:28:54 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: MarMema

I was born and raised in Trenton and lived a few years in Wyandotte as a wee teeny. My dad worked at the Wyandotte Chemicals until BASF bulldozed it and now it’s a lovely park on the cleaned up Detroit River. Trenton is still a very nice town, one I wouldn’t mind living in. I moved back to Michigan about 10 years ago after living in Florida for 30 years - my yankee DNA is happy to be back in the four seasons. Every winter has been different, too. Nothing to compare with the mini-ice age I experienced in the ‘60s. Now - Only one month of really bad stuff. Now that I am retired and don’t have to drive in it, it doesn’t bother me at all. Would love to find a place further north that is made for year-round living. So far, that has been a real challenge.


103 posted on 07/29/2017 3:42:42 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Michigan is a gem of a state. Lived in California over 10 years now, and miss Michigan tremendously...hope to get back one day. A summer in Michigan is unrivaled. Spring and Fall are great, too. Yeah, the winters can be rough, but fun too depending on where you live in the area. Northern and western suburbs of Detroit are some of the best places to live in the country.

Downtown/Midtown Detroit are booming and attractive places to live for younger folks (20-40s). Much of the CITY of Detroit’s neighborhoods are still a mess, but doubt you’d be looking to live in those places anyway. I say go for it, I lived in the city of San Francisco for years...and I think Michigan weather is better 6-8 months out of the year (March-October). Yeah, I know people might think I’m nuts, but that’s my opinion!


104 posted on 07/29/2017 3:45:58 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: All
Dan Gilbert and others of our Detroit love fest - there are a lot of us - are paying very close attention to Detroit. And we are doing all we can to bring her back. My investment is minimal but it is there.

moving to Detroit

people moving Detroit to a rebirth

105 posted on 07/29/2017 3:48:17 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Larry Lucido
but I’m surrounded by gun-toting rednecks. Good folks, mostly.

LOL. That's what it is like for us too. Lotsa trucks, flags, and people who open doors for each other.

106 posted on 07/29/2017 3:50:23 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: dfwgator
I still would love to get a summer home in Michigan one day. Convincing the wife is the issue.

It amazes me how many tourists we see from Texas. Not sure why that is.

107 posted on 07/29/2017 3:53:22 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: MarMema
I stand corrected... another hellhole run by Democrats.


108 posted on 07/29/2017 4:33:43 PM PDT by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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To: Bon mots

Right now it is run by Republicans. So now you are again corrected.


109 posted on 07/29/2017 5:00:57 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Mozzafiato
You are a breath of truth here.

"A summer in Michigan is unrivaled." That is how we feel too. It's the most awesome perfect weather with just a light breeze that caresses your face. It is one part of what has made us fall so deeply in love with this state and her people. Come home soon.

110 posted on 07/29/2017 5:06:03 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: HiTech RedNeck
a steel mill

Which one would that be?

111 posted on 07/29/2017 5:15:43 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Engedi
Good areas are Northville, WalledLake (Commerce Township), Canton

.......Macomb Twp., Washington Twp., Rochester, Rochester Hills.......etc........

112 posted on 07/29/2017 5:22:51 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: EnglishOnly
just Scratch Detroit and all of S.E. Michigan. It won’t be worth it and you’ll be forever in remorse.”

I left in ‘79

You left in '79 and you consider yourself an expert on S.E. Michigan?........LOL!

I'm still here and loving it! And for the record, we never missed you..........


113 posted on 07/29/2017 5:37:15 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Sioux-san

Welcome home. Wish I could get to Wyandotte more often
Love the culture there.


114 posted on 07/29/2017 5:49:26 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Hot Tabasco
You go!!

Hey. Farewell to Cripple Creek?? On your fr page...you just mean here on FR right? Or do you know more? Missing him...

115 posted on 07/29/2017 5:52:40 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Bon mots
Oops, sorry. Posting from my phone earlier on the porch and missed the St Louis.

My apologies.

116 posted on 07/29/2017 6:11:28 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: MarMema

Man, I forgot all about Cripplecreek, one of my favorite MI freeps.


117 posted on 07/29/2017 6:28:40 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (FUMSM)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Yeah. Painful loss for us. Last time he messaged me was during the campaign and I thought he said he would be back.

All I knew about him was that he was from outside of Jackson. Had cool Jack Russells.

Hope he comes back someday.


118 posted on 07/29/2017 7:26:41 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Detroit is a lucrative place to live . . . if you are the Tooth Fairy.


119 posted on 07/29/2017 7:29:25 PM PDT by anton
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To: HiTech RedNeck

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20150718/NEWS/307199975/detroit-is-the-wild-west-for-housing-investor-robin-scovill-who-sets


120 posted on 07/29/2017 9:41:34 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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