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60% |
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6% |
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KYC
Joined: 11 May 2006
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I'm from Dearborn!! Well, Dearborn Heights to be exact.
I think the Michigan is dangerous thing comes mainly from Detroit...some refer to it as murder city. I've lived and worked in Detroit. I don't like Detroit. I once had to go to city hall in Detroit. I was verbally harrassed by a bum on the street. Scared the living day lights outo f me. This was at 10 am too. I had friends who had night classes at Wayne State and they were mugged quite frequently.
And the only term I've been familar with is Michiganders 
Heading back in August...not really excited but it's still home |
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Chambertin
Joined: 07 Jun 2009
Location: Gunsan
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| Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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Born in Kentucky but spent most of my years in Michigan.
I agree with Michigander, MS Word likes it and I have heard many governors use this term. Even the silly Canadian one we got now.
As far as Michigan being �dangerous� it really depends on your definition. For a number of years through the 80�s and 90�s Michigan lost a great deal of automotive plants and a couple Military instillations. This effect spurred huge increases in crime rates and other degradation effects. Flint and Detroit were hit worst and they still feel the effects.
Cities like Saginaw, Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Pontiac, and others I don�t have personal experience with had two very different sides to them. On the �good� side it was The Burbs, on the �bad� it was Boyz in the Hood.
Up north had its own set of problems with agricultural prices fluctuating and subsidy farm policies changing leading to pockets of poverty and other areas of prosperity. Michigan also became famous for hosting some of the best crackpots out there as in one of the columbine kids and the Oklahoma City bombing accomplice.
Those factors led to an overexerted image of a dangerous rural Michigan and a violent urban Michigan in the media. Humorously, I remember hearing �At least Michigan is #1 in Something again.�
So it really depends on what your vision of danger is. If you do visit Michigan take a drive north on Woodward Ave. from central Detroit that�s one hell of a tour of our state.
Overall it�s a safe place; we are just struggling to get some kind of economy going again.
Hope that helps.
EDIT:
Speaking of Toledo, we let you guys have that and havent been botherd by it since.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War
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TwoFold
Joined: 31 Mar 2009
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Fun to see so many Michiganders on Dave's. I was born and raised in Southeast Michigan in the Oxford/Lake Orion area.
Oh, and I love telling people that grew up north of Canada. The confusion on people's faces is always priceless. If you want to verify, just look at Windsor, Ontario in relation to Detroit on a map. A dumb observation, I know, but still fun.
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| People from Michigan suffer from Ohio envy. This causes a great amount of stress and strain which usually builds until released in some violent rage. |
I just about fell out of my chair on this one. Why is it that every Buckeye's fan I've ever met is so defensive and unsociable? Hoping that I'm proven wrong on that trend some day. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| TwoFold wrote: |
| Oh, and I love telling people that grew up north of Canada. The confusion on people's faces is always priceless. If you want to verify, just look at Windsor, Ontario in relation to Detroit on a map. A dumb observation, I know, but still fun. |
I'm also from Michigan.
I also use to tell the 'I had to drive south to go to Canada' which is true. No one gets that joke though, you really have to be a Michigander to get it, even Canadians don't know that's the way it is.
As to the overall thread. I left Michigan in 1992 with no intention of returning. I lived in other states, and they were all MUCH better.
However, I have recently found myself thinking of the better aspects of Michigan....the music from in and around Detroit IS really good. I'd like to get back for the Hamtramck Blowout, etc. Support all the local Detroit bands and get to know the city better. I've also lived in New York City, San Francisco, Portland OR, and Minneapolis. I've always dismissed Detroit as one giant cesspit on every level as far as cities go.
But recently, been thinking about how cool places like Dearborn, Hamtramck, and Royal Oak might be around Detroit. Sounds like Royal Oak and Hamtramck have the REAL eclectic music scenes and urban culture that I always found more attractive about other U.S. cities. So feeling I wouldn't mind exploring those areas a bit more on my next trip back just to check them out and get a better feel for them.
I basically grew up a townie kid...meaning living in small towns all over Michigan. So I was never urban, rural, or suburban. Just a bunch of interchangeable Michigan smallish towns all over the place, and always lived in town where I could walk or ride a bike to nearly everywhere. |
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