The Judgmental Map of Detroit

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Dearborn is ISIS Sadr City.
Ferndale is Gayborhood.
Hamtramck is Hipsters with STDs.
Up around Frasier it's "Much Vinyl Siding"---along with Angry Italians and Albanians Laundering Money for Italians. 

Here's a map of Detroit metropolitan area towns with a real edge to the descriptions. The Ann Arbor area on up to Brighton? "GREAT WEED!"

http://www.metrotimes.com/Blogs/archives/2014/08/25/about-that-judgmental-map-of-detroit

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Tons of lesbians, people with trucks.
I'd love to do one of Ca, though it'd be pretty easy, "slave masters, and slaves mixed with leeches and Toady's."

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I didn't know there was anybody left in Detroit.

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I didn't know there was anybody (That mattered) left in Detroit.

FIFY. 

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I didn't know there was anybody left in Detroit.

Slightly above half a million, or so I've read. I'm guessing a slight uptick ahead once the new international bridge crossing project actually begins, linking Detroit's Delay area to the Windsor, Ontario area.They'll need thousands of workers over roughly a 10 to 15-year period.

For more on that: http://blogs.windsorstar.com/news/new-windsor-detroit-bridge-authority-stages-first-meeting-with-video

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Slightly above half a million, or so I've read. I'm guessing a slight uptick ahead once the new international bridge crossing project actually begins, linking Detroit's Delay area to the Windsor, Ontario area.They'll need thousands of workers over roughly a 10 to 15-year period.

For more on that: http://blogs.windsorstar.com/news/new-windsor-detroit-bridge-authority-stages-first-meeting-with-video

Why would anyone want a bridge linking sanity with Hell?

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Slightly above half a million, or so I've read. I'm guessing a slight uptick ahead once the new international bridge crossing project actually begins, linking Detroit's Delay area to the Windsor, Ontario area.They'll need thousands of workers over roughly a 10 to 15-year period.

For more on that: http://blogs.windsorstar.com/news/new-windsor-detroit-bridge-authority-stages-first-meeting-with-video

How close are you to that mess? The last time I checked, I could buy a decent house there (in a thoroughly indecent neighborhood) for less than the closing costs. I remember seeing houses for sale for $1,000.

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How close are you to that mess? The last time I checked, I could buy a decent house there (in a thoroughly indecent neighborhood) for less than the closing costs. I remember seeing houses for sale for $1,000.

Yeah, no wiring, plumbing, or anything else you'd expect to find in a home, but still you can't beat the price.

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Why would anyone want a bridge linking sanity with Hell?

Trade! Goods shipped!

The existing (privately-owned) Ambassador Bridge is nearing the end of its useful lifespan, and Canada is willing to pay 100% of all costs if the U.S. only goes along with the plan. This would vastly decrease traffic chokepoints out of Windsor (either second or third-busiest port-crossing, aside from the Blue Water Bridge at Port Huron).

This is a win-win for both sides but still an uphill fight for RINO Gov. Rick Snyder, thanks to Ambassador Bridge owner Manny Maroun (whose father built this doddering wreck). Manny's shyster fought every step of the way, but the project finally got signed anyway. From what I gather, the 109 in Ontario will run straight to I-94 in Michigan, via what will probably wipe out the western half of Del Ray (by far the city's worst run-down area, closest to the river).

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How close are you to that mess? The last time I checked, I could buy a decent house there (in a thoroughly indecent neighborhood) for less than the closing costs. I remember seeing houses for sale for $1,000.

I'm comfortably west of the mess. Out here even tax-auction houses cost about $25K.

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Trade! Goods shipped!

The existing (privately-owned) Ambassador Bridge is nearing the end of its useful lifespan, and Canada is willing to pay 100% of all costs if the U.S. only goes along with the plan. This would vastly decrease traffic chokepoints out of Windsor (either second or third-busiest port-crossing, aside from the Blue Water Bridge at Port Huron).

This is a win-win for both sides but still an uphill fight for RINO Gov. Rick Snyder, thanks to Ambassador Bridge owner Manny Maroun (whose father built this doddering wreck). Manny's shyster fought every step of the way, but the project finally got signed anyway. From what I gather, the 109 in Ontario will run straight to I-94 in Michigan, via what will probably wipe out the western half of Del Ray (by far the city's worst run-down area, closest to the river).

Ah, OK..

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Trade! Goods shipped!

The existing (privately-owned) Ambassador Bridge is nearing the end of its useful lifespan, and Canada is willing to pay 100% of all costs if the U.S. only goes along with the plan. This would vastly decrease traffic chokepoints out of Windsor (either second or third-busiest port-crossing, aside from the Blue Water Bridge at Port Huron).

This is a win-win for both sides but still an uphill fight for RINO Gov. Rick Snyder, thanks to Ambassador Bridge owner Manny Maroun (whose father built this doddering wreck). Manny's shyster fought every step of the way, but the project finally got signed anyway. From what I gather, the 109 in Ontario will run straight to I-94 in Michigan, via what will probably wipe out the western half of Del Ray (by far the city's worst run-down area, closest to the river).

Don't you have to show a passport and go through customs to cross? I know that didn't use to be the case, but I thought these days, when there's a terrorist behind every... steering wheel, Canada crossings required the whole rigmarole.

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Don't you have to show a passport and go through customs to cross? I know that didn't use to be the case, but I thought these days, when there's a terrorist behind every... steering wheel, Canada crossings required the whole rigmarole.

I'm not current on it, but believe you do show a birth certificate and photo ID if you don't have what amounts to an EZ pass for regular travelers, or, as you say, a regular passport. Returning to the U.S. the last time, we went through armed and very nervous-looking troops on the Ambassador itself (where you couldn't back away once in line). From what I gather, the Canadians have spent huge amounts widening their roads on their side, preparing for this. Except for money for a customs plaza, the deal is locked in --- unless Maroun's crew buys another judge.

This is positive progress for trade and not-so-hot for Delray residents. I'm guessing at least a four-block-wide strip of houses will have to go, from the river shoreline until the I-94 interchange (also yet to come). The same kind of urban renewal happened in the 1940s when Black Bottom got wiped out making way for I-75 (which also sees huge truck traffic).

Delray, a devastated fire-bombed hulk, has needed complete bulldozing for decades. Residents there were screaming for reparations on houses they inhabited but could not prove they owned. (And the merry-go-round goes round....)

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I'm not current on it, but believe you do show a birth certificate and photo ID if you don't have what amounts to an EZ pass for regular travelers, or, as you say, a regular passport. Returning to the U.S. the last time, we went through armed and very nervous-looking troops on the Ambassador itself (where you couldn't back away once in line). From what I gather, the Canadians have spent huge amounts widening their roads on their side, preparing for this. Except for money for a customs plaza, the deal is locked in --- unless Maroun's crew buys another judge.

This is positive progress for trade and not-so-hot for Delray residents. I'm guessing at least a four-block-wide strip of houses will have to go, from the river shoreline until the I-94 interchange (also yet to come). The same kind of urban renewal happened in the 1940s when Black Bottom got wiped out making way for I-75 (which also sees huge truck traffic).

Delray, a devastated fire-bombed hulk, has needed complete bulldozing for decades. Residents there were screaming for reparations on houses they inhabited but could not prove they owned. (And the merry-go-round goes round....)

Delray -- one of the many towns cocaine built. I-75 has always been called 'cocaine highway' around here -- straight up out of the wide-open beaches of Florida and all the way to the Motor City.

I was born in Dayton and raised there when I-75 was being built to replace the old Dixie Highway, US-25. So much of the old and good was swept aside for the new, fast, and drug-laden. In 1965, I was a skinny white boy who owned my own Dayton Daily News route on Salem Avenue in Dayton between Catalpa and Philadelphia Drive. Today such a thing is suicide.

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Ashes to ashes.