If I get the choice, do I take the job in Detroit? |
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Only if there is an attractive lady over there to visit once in a while |
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Stay out of our country you stupid Brit |
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Becky

Joined: 30 Mar 2004
Posts: 430
Location: Michigan |
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Ok...I'm slow on my reading lately, and I just picked up this thread. Anyway, being the only almost native Detroiter here, there are a few key questions I have to ask you.
1. Where are you moving from?
2. What sort of job is it?
3. Will you actually be living in the city of Detroit?
4. Do you like Eminem?
Here's the story on Detroit. It's a nice place to work, but you wouldn't want to live there, or leave the 1.5 mile radius that all of the actual large businesses are located within. Chris is right, Ann Arbor is about 45 minutes away, and that's where I live, it's nice. If you live outside of Detroit in one of the suburbs like Royal Oak, Dearborn or Sterling Heights, it's really not so bad. Traffic sucks and the roads are bad, but it's not horrible.
Good things about the Detroit Area
1. We're getting the Superbowl next year
2. If you're into theatre, we get some pretty decent shows traveling through
3. We get some of the best concerts
4. There's usually always something to do
5. We have the Detroit Tigers, a team that nearly took the record for the most losing team in baseball, and because of that you can get tickets to see them play really good teams for really cheap since no one wants to go to a Tigers game. 20 dollars to see them play the Red Sox? Yeah baby!
6. We have the Red Wings, when they're actually playing hockey
7. We have 3 major colleges within 45 minutes of each other, which is cool
8. There are casinos if you like to gamble
9. We're a stone's throw from Canada
10. I live here!
Bad things about the Detroit Area
1. We're an industrial area, so things are always dirty
2. Winters suck
3. There's that whole crime thing in certain areas of Detroit
4. There is absolutely no area around here that one could classify as "beautiful"
5. The city is dirty
6. If you don't drink, sometimes it is hard to find something to do
7. People are a bit trashy
8. Every white guy in Detroit under the age of 30 wants to be Eminem
9. The people around here do love their Nascar and Monster Truck Rallies
10. Class and race lines are often drawn very deeply
11. Did I mention that winters suck?
So there you have it, the good and the bad. Don't say you weren't warned!
 _________________ "During sex, I'm kind of like wet panties. Annoying, and you just want to get me off so you can go back to doing what you were doing."
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