Posted on 08/15/2005 3:32:16 AM PDT by TimeLord
Not on your life! Why do they think everyone left in the first place?
I still think we aught to build a wall around Detroit and forget it.
Becki
He should come to West Michigan. It is really nice here. And more conservative, too.
Although lately it seems that many of the moonbats from Detroit are relocating over here, particularly Muskegon.
Becki
Well who has been running this city for the last 50 years?
Go ahead and look. There lies the answer as to why the city that is home to the big 3 automakers (and 10 % of the nation's economy) has been turned into a cesspool of corruption.
Just look! (warning, just looking will brand you a racist)
My father's cousin (a fireman) was shot and killed by a sniper while fighting a fire during the '67 riots. A guy my husband gew up with was knifed to death in Detroit...drug deal gone bad. The sister of my son's friend was murdered 4 or 5 years ago while attending a party at a friend's in Detroit...their family had moved to Troy from Detroit just a year or two earlier.
I've lived in the Detroit Metro area all my life as has my husband. We live in Troy and are considering leaving the area or maybe even the state when the kids are done with school.
Seger is from Dexter, just outside of Ann Arbor.
Becki
It is a shame. The nice parts are becoming all too far between. Guess it's true, you can't go back home. But, I do become hopeful when I see Campus Martius and all that.
I've lived in California all my life.
Back in 1993 a brother-in-law from Europe decided to drive the U.S. cross-country. I decided to ride with him. Our first leg was New York to DC.
When we got to Philadelphia, we decided to get off the main highway and see some of it. We had no clue where to get off and randomly took an exit. After 10 minutes of cruising what looked like Blade Runner territory we backtracked the hell out of there.
I still have no clue what the "other" Philadelphia looks like.
Yep. The Zoo is SQUARELY in the middle of one of the worst areas of Philly. We have a family membership, but I refuse to drive the two kids down and go by myself. I got mugged on the walk from the member's parking lot to the Zoo entrance two years ago, when my daughter was two. Scared the everloving crap out of me.
no housing bubble in Detroit at least>>>>>>>
Yeah, but doesn't it seem odd that nobody is trying to rehab anything to make some money? If its a shooting gallery I guess it wouldn't make sense to do that, but abandoned homes at rock-bottom price, I would think that SOMEBODY would smell money..It must be a war zone.
I remember the riots. By that time we were living in Roseville, but i remember the tanks going down Gratiot and the helicopters flying overhead and the curfew. My father still worked in Detroit at the time and didn't work much during the riots. Many of my relatives still lived in Detroit at that time and I remember by grandmother wouldn't leave her house so my uncle went to stay with her. I have a cousin who is on the fire dept in Detroit and he has such "wonderful" stories to tell! Troy was always the nice area that everyone wanted to move to when I was growing up. It still is, but the burbs just keep expanding and expanding. Where we once went to go 4-Wheeling (Clarkston area), is now subdivisions.
By the way, did you ever cruise Gratiot or Woodward (I'm giving away my age)
There is one border street (Alter maybe) that is Grosse Pointe on one side with noce well kept houses and Detroit on the other, totally trashed.
That's one of my favorite Sunday drives.
ABout 18 years ago, I was doing some contractor work on a for sale house in Detroit. Breathtakingly beautiful, modernized home in a nice stable neighborhood. Selling price $35,000. Same home 3 blocks over in Grosse Pointe, Probably $250,000. I didn't buy it because the nearest grocery store was 10 miles away, and security was a serious concern.
"The right of persons to work shall not be denied or abridged on account of membership or non-membership in any labor union or labor organization. The right of employees, by and through a labor organization, to bargain collectively shall not be denied or abridged. Public employees shall not have the right to strike."
You can move here to Ashwaubenon, WI, lady. Plenty of nice cheap homes available, Lambeau Field is nearby, and plenty of jobs open for experienced nurses.
yes, a lot of people, that rather than take the time to fix things, they paint over it. so if they were selling the home or changing renters it would have gotten a new coat of paint. and since alot of the house are old, there's sometimes multiple layers of lead paint. the brick falls, paint chips and the lead gets airborne.
however the amount of lead in the air is nominal, usualy still much better than the air around a gun range.
oh PLEEAAZZEEEE you FOOL! They dont want to end up DEAD visiting a DEAD PERSONS grave site you idiot!
theres nothing in the article about idiot and corrupt mayors....what a shock
Yeah, they can pitch tents on the new farmland.
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