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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

There are some fantastic suburbs in the Detroit area.


61 posted on 07/29/2017 12:41:45 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: bigdaddy45

The worst days are behind Detroit. Can’t say the same for a lot of other cities.


62 posted on 07/29/2017 12:42:33 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: HiTech RedNeck
It can't be all bad -- this is Kid Rock territory after all.

I'd imagine local celebrities like Kid Rock and Eminem live in somewhat different circumstances than a Unix/C programmer would in Detroit. But I'd go check it out if the company wants to fly you in - they might be willing to pay quite a bit above market to get someone good, and the cost of living there could be quite attractive.
63 posted on 07/29/2017 12:42:47 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: faithhopecharity

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.


64 posted on 07/29/2017 12:43:57 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: fuzzylogic

If you get outside of the cities, you would think sometimes you are in Alabama, rather than Michigan.


65 posted on 07/29/2017 12:45:04 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: discostu

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.


66 posted on 07/29/2017 12:46:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator; All

Well it’s AK Steel in Dearborn.

Given that, what kind of logistics would avoid needing a Sherman tank and barbwire house?


67 posted on 07/29/2017 12:49:42 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: dfwgator

I prefer desert life where wet winter days are an event and we generally maintain swimming weather through most of it.


68 posted on 07/29/2017 12:50:54 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: AnotherUnixGeek

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


69 posted on 07/29/2017 12:55:31 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
why i moved to Detroit

Bear with me. I have a few more for you.

70 posted on 07/29/2017 1:00:08 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: HiTech RedNeck

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.


71 posted on 07/29/2017 1:00:52 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: discostu
That's Illinois.

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.

72 posted on 07/29/2017 1:03:38 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: MarMema

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.


73 posted on 07/29/2017 1:09:32 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
watch this from 2013

THESE HOMES ARE IN DETROIT CITY

74 posted on 07/29/2017 1:12:01 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: HiTech RedNeck
reboot detroit

20 things to know about moving to Detroit

75 posted on 07/29/2017 1:25:08 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Bon mots

St Louis is now the official murder capital of the country.


76 posted on 07/29/2017 1:26:05 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Jane Long
They're going to have a great baseball team, in a few years!!

...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.

77 posted on 07/29/2017 1:28:06 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (FUMSM)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

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.


78 posted on 07/29/2017 1:35:11 PM PDT by Feasor13
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I hear that Dearborn is a nicely diversified suburb.


79 posted on 07/29/2017 1:51:17 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I’d live in a tent homeless first.


80 posted on 07/29/2017 1:52:19 PM PDT by Openurmind
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