[Skip Ripley]

I live in Toledo. This town is a pathetic joke. The streets are in disrepair, the schools are a mess, unemployment is well above the national average and real estate values are dropping in the midst of a real estae bubble everywhere else in America.

The city is a textbook case of the dangers of giving organized labor a say in the political process. The city and county government are ruled by democrat party stooges who kowtow to the union bosses that make certain that enough of their beer swilling chuckleheads sober up on election day to give the donkeys their majority.

We pay a disproportionately large city income tax, very high property taxes and (I think) the largest sales tax in the state. Breathing is about the only activity one can engage in that doesn't require some sort of fee based license or permit.

I hate this place with an undying passion. We are a small slice of East Germany right in the middle of the good ol USA. My wife and I will be scooting across the border into SE Michigan ASAP. Virtually everyone else who can read already has...

[E Rocc]

I hate this place with an undying passion. We are a small slice of East Germany right in the middle of the good ol USA. My wife and I will be scooting across the border into SE Michigan ASAP. Virtually everyone else who can read already has...

Any state as prone to electing Democrats as Michigan is will itself be unlivable soon enough. You'd be better off heading east, towards Cleveland. There's absolutely no talk of banning smoking in bars around here (so far).

-Eric