[catpuppy]

The house next door is empty. Foreclosed. The one two doors down is empty, never occupied. The family across the street abandoned their home a year ago. Just packed up and left.

Sounds a lot like Michigan--except for the lack of glaciers, rusting, boarded-up factories and daily drive-by shootings.

meanwhile, millions of students are enjoying their annual spring break getaway to America's playground, Michigan ...

[Lakeshark]

Yes, the drive by shooters always ride the glaciers in order to rob the boarded up factories.........

I can't help but notice the defensiveness about your problems down there....tsk, tsk, tsk......however, the article does seem to suggest the state of Floriduh is giving lots of deals to come down there (free grouper um, er, fish sammiches), so for the two months of bad weather here, cheap deals to hit some warmth are just fine.