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and if i'm going to deal w/such horrendous winter weather i'd rather be in a city that's up and running and open for biz like Chicago.

but Detroit cute though and for ppl who are willing to do the work i am sure there are many gems just waiting to be rediscovered.

DET is getting close

you couldn't pay me to live there.

Not as bad as folks have made it out to be, although I do miss NY sometimes.

Around 1K square feet

The neighborhood is alright. Lots of ethnic restaurants & stores but not schools

The income threshold does price out most native Detroiters also.

But I dont care anymore, come one come all fuck it.
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The street signs are green instead of blue
South of Davison (where its a street not a expressway)
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draconian requirements which end up keeping out the local people the projects are supposedly intended to support

All the folks that hate the 90+ summers here should move there. And the anti-mass transit folks, I wish we could ship them out there as well.

Oh, and fuck the Pistons & Lions.

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>Oh, and fuck the Pistons & Lions.

Used to bully the sixers around back in the day. And I'm an Eagles fan. We don't like anyone, lol.

i don't have a license
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Ill be happy if we get this light rail thing going

Its gonna be baby steps

You betta get some good friends and lots of cab fare. LBVS

Even if the powers that be did improve hell implement mass transit, it would NOT be coming through that particular hood.

Hell the light rail stops at Grand Boulevard.

I realize Im being Debbie Downer...let me eat my lunch.
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>Even if the powers that be did improve hell implement mass
>transit, it would NOT be coming through that particular hood.

>You betta get some good friends and lots of cab fare. LBVS
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>Even if the powers that be did improve hell implement mass
>transit, it would NOT be coming through that particular hood.
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>Hell the light rail stops at Grand Boulevard.
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>I realize Im being Debbie Downer...let me eat my lunch.


no worries
its reality

i look at NY and my mom WILL NOT leave i tell you
she's a senior citizen and the freedom of movement here
its really unparalleled


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It's an awesome opportunity for a writer. I think most people aren't interested in this because they aren't serious about writing.

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They don't fuck around out there, that's why. For the record, I have no problems at all with Detroit but some of you touristy palm trees people might have problems out there.

What's the environment like for working professionals?

How trigger happy are the police?

Did they payback those college students that beat their ass on video?

my lady just left me, i may try this, lol

Detrioters what type of area is this.

>my lady just left me

Ok. So you're back on the market. You really want to be in Detroit for that? lol. I hate being single in Philly, I can't imagine it in a town with the depopulation & poverty problems that Detroit apparently has. You think they have that nice slice of fine transplants?

Aint playing on the same field as everyone else lol

I just read Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

This dude bout to tear shit up

And not for nothing Detroit girls pretty cool on the low

so all the characters are more or less in the art scene

He is new to the city and artsy..knee deep in rebellious trust fund hipsters and Shea butter sistas

If he looks like this https://d2nyfqh3g1stw3.cloudfront.net/photos/article_landing_nadir_pic_11282.jpg

CHA CHING

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He could walk up in TV Lounge and hold court up in there

Have me looking at him salty as fuck lol

Cuz he wants an open relationship.

Ive changed my mind, dont bring your ass here LOL
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y'all making me laugh when I wanna cry

>He is new to the city and artsy..knee deep in rebellious
>trust fund hipsters and Shea butter sistas
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>If he looks like this
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>CHA CHING


Forgot about that segment, lol. That dried-up in Philly in the mid-00s it seems.

I wonder if anyone will ask me why I'm walking around with an electric bass with no amp tho.

all we need is some old t-shirts, a bundle of nag champa and proclaimations that we like "natural girls" on instagram and we'd all do numbers.

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but way more latino

http://youtu.be/DawrlSwHUiM

wait is light skin in again for dudes?
i keep forgetting
jessie williams is holding that banner up and hardt
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not where near as pretty is that MFer

my lightskintedness has undertones of red cause of being Mexican. when i fully grow the beard i look hella middle eastern Arab tho

i'm still sad

just look at puppy dog eyes on HTGAwM


the rest?
da heathen one will have to tell you your chances
i left off with the rest of the country still now understanding what an afrolatino is
forget about a non mexican latino
they might just call you miguel and call it a day
not sure if thats good or bad


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and this wasn't an option a month ago when I still felt like me and my lady were building a future together (we were six months deep in trying to make it work)and LA would be our home base for a while.

this is def something I'd consider now that I'm free to roam around

>my lady just left me, i may try this, lol
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aw.

But DHO says its right near Hamtramck which is a cool little town almost completely surrounded by detroit

Hipster paradise
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UNDER A BED SOMEWHERE

EATING A PINT OF CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM

BLUBBERING OVER WHY SHE DID YOU WRONG

FUCK THIS FREE HOUSING THING

every NYr knows w regards to gentrification
you'd drop all family friends and a pet
to get a rent control situation

he's having a lapse of judgement
#housingfirst
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicantown,_Detroit

except for free houses because nobody wants to live there?

AND A FUCKLOAD LOT MORE SNOW and colder temps.

And why don't you live there?

a world class art museum, the nations largest and most comprehensive museum on American life, a place in history that stretches back 400 years, a history of industrial and technological innovation unmatched anywhere in America, the best collection of existing art deco and neogothic architecture in America, the College for Creative Studies, waterfront geography, and an international border?

Not much i suppose lol

is that why you don't live there?

SMDH

and JOBS so it has become a transplant, international, hipster mecca.

he convinved ababa to move there and she left becuase she couldnt' run a business there because she didn't have electricity half the time. i had a package sent to detroit that didn't get a delivery scan. extremely unusual and it means i was going to have to refund the $100 north face coat i sent if the customer noticed. called the post office 2 days in a row and their computers were down. that's some third world country shit. I ship all over the world without tracking or insurance. detroit i have to put insurance on packages because they don't scan packages like the rest of the western world.

try and eat off art deco architecture though.

I aint convince anybody to do a fucking thing

Nobody cares about your business practices.

And have fun with that 75/12/12 white/blk/hisp "diversity"

she moved back so quick.

you may not have convinced her to move there, but you were trying to convince her that it was a cool place to live.

in reality, there's nothing in detroit that the rest of the midwest doesn't have besides thirdworldiness and crumbling art deco architecture.

unsuccessfully.

i'll be more careful with my word choice in the future.

so i'm not called a liar, by people trying to skirt facts.

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I may make the case for it after my kids are grown, but it really depends on where I'm at in life at that time. I've been thinking about making that move back but I ain't doin shit until my son is on his way to college.


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Went up there for the Super Bowl and swore I would never return in the winter.

I thought I knew cold...

nah bruh... never again.

I work outside and my company is cheap and usually tell us to suck it up because working outside is what we signed up for but they bought cases of hot foods and hot drinks and put out memos MAKING us come inside after 5 minutes outside

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My sister is a school SW and has had ~10 days off the last 2 years because the windchill was below -15 during the time kids wait for the bus.

But in 11-12 i was wearing T shirts this time of year and shorts at the end of March.

Normally speaking over the course of my life, highs in the 20s are normal for DEC-JAN-FEB, and there is always a stretch in January when it gets close to 0. These polar vortices have been fucking us up for the last 2 years.

All that is balanced out with a truly fantastic summer and 4 moderately well defined seasons. Fall is pretty great.

I complained last year and I am winter baby.
I was born during one of these deep freezes so they really dont phase me but last year was some ole bullshit.
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for the last couple of years

we had a run of like 3 mild winters before that, w/ the exception of one snowstorm or so per year.

if you don't like cold, it's not the place for you, but if you've lived anywhere where it gets cold, it's not especially bad.

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

don't lie to these people. there might be somewhere in the far outback of the alaska that's worse. but detroit is way worse than the part of Alaska considered habitable.

nobody's lying to anybody, and nobody's fucking moving to anchorage.

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

for most winter

one year dipped to 10 degrees a couple of days

cold don't scare me. SoCal sunshine over rated IMO

i lived in the up North grey for 3 years too

Detroit is usually pretty bad when you get an arctic blast.

I remember Detroit Public Schools kept schools open unless the temps hit 0. During high school, there were very few days we got off because of that 'cause we were still going to school at 2 degrees.

The last winter I was there had some pretty lengthy stretches at or just above/below zero with the windchill at like -10 or -15 degrees.


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