Is it just me or do alot of people in Michigan seam angry about something? I have lived all through out the state and every where I go every one seams a little pissed. Dearborn is the worst city so far, you get a mix of the angry over privliged suburban kid and some rougher gehto people that are mad because thats how it is in rap videos. I have travled to many other states farther south and even up in to NYC and the people just seam over all happier. Honestly when did every one get so mad!? Please some one tell me I'm not alone in noticing this, I'm starting to think its something about me! If any nice people want to hang out let me know. I would like that a lot!
OMG! I've always wondered that!!! That's so funny! I lived in Michigan for the first 21 years of my life. Everyone was always so bitchy! I just thought that's how the world was. I moved up north to Houghton to attend Michigan Technological University. I love the outdoors and it sure was pretty up there. But seriously... people were the same there as southern Michigan. I grew up just outside of Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor could be a lot of fun to hang out and the people were generally nicer, though still seemed to have some degree of stick-up-the-ass syndrome. But anyway, I moved to Lansing after living in Houghton for a year. Lansing is a hole. My worst experiences with people were in Lansing. But I don't think it's just you and me. I had 2 friends visit me while I was living in Lansing for a year. One was from Florida and the other from Texas. They both said people seemed miserable about living in Michigan, LOL! Ofcourse there are exceptions to this. I'm not saying everyone I came in contact with was a jerk. But the overall vibe I got from living in different parts of Michigan was that people were unhappy with their lives and didn't want to be there. I live in Baltimore now. I was expecting the worse, but have been pleasantly surprised so far. So long as I don't venture into the wealthy neighborhoods, I rarely get sneers for having dreadlocks, and most people seem quite pleasant and cheerful. But as for the reason for the generally foul moods of Michiganders? Who knows? Why do you think I got the heck out of there?
Haha! I'm from all over Michigan, Ive been in the Dearborn, Garden city area most of my life but have also lived in South Lyon.
I'm from Lansing. Grew up in Central Lake, just north of Traverse City. I used to be a pretty happy go lucky kind. Then we moved to Detroit in search of work. (That's why people in NMI are pissy - nothing but shitty, low paying jobs for the majority of people) Found Detroit to be nothing but a miserable shit hole full of over paid, stuck up yuppies and crackhead welfare junkies. Everyone there is pissed because it's a shit hole, plain and simple. Traffic sucks, work sucks. housing is outrageously expensive, even in the ghetto hoods and everyone wants to be somewhere else. Moved to Lansing after taking a job transfer because my job in Detroit went into layoff status. Spent 1 1/2 years with the same company before that pin dick mother fucker decided that his best friend needed my job more than I did, even though I was in the middle of building a $200k house. Now I'm stuck in a job with a manager who transferred from Detroit and who is very angry at the world because she's a phsycotic ****. And from Detroit to top it all off. So, why is everyone in Michigan so angry??? Shitty economy - coroporations keep shipping all of our jobs overseas and to Mexico in the name of corporate profits rather than human decency. I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine no longer exists. Now it's - you scratch my back until I find cheaper labor and then I'll fuck you in the ass with a splintered log covered in sand and cut your fucking legs off. Bullshit labor laws - This whole at-will thing leads to the above paragraph. That cock sucking asshole that fired me so that his cocaine dealer could have my job didn't have any reason to fire me. NONE. He claimed at-will and told me that he didn't have to give me a reason even though it was costing me a 65k/ year job, loss of my house that I was building (yep, me - not some dickhead contractor), uncertainty for 6 months and my reputation amongst my co-workers - he told them that I was stealing from the company. I don't like to use this word (and I don't mean it in the racist sense, look up the other definition if you must), but that fucker is nothing more than a dirt bag ****** and needs to be hung from an overpass by his feet so that a semi could splatter his fucking skull all over it's windshield. Very few decent paying jobs. I looked around for 6 months, all over the state, trying to get a job that was half-way close to what I was making and had to settle for one that paid less than half. Thanks dirt bag mother fucker that shit canned me. Bullshit weather that is 70 one day and snowing like hell the next. General dis-satisfaction with life because of the above reasons causes wide spread hatred and disgust for one another. So we're all mad.
People in MI are angry because Gov. Granholm is systemattically wiping out small business and large business alike. Ask someone who owns their own business in MI what they pay for taxes!
Where you from up there Martinac? I hear ya, that nut ball bitch is crazy... Tax the people to death and fuck the people who put her in office. Gotta wonder if Amway DICK would have been a better choice.
Actually I quite enjoy Michigan...and the midwest. I've lived in Michigan my entire life, up until about eight months ago. I used to HATE it...HATE it with a passion, but I've since become fond of the attitudes of Midwesterners and Michiganders I've run into while being out here in California. I think we appreciate things more when you're away from them, though. I think the long winters, the infrequency of sunshine at times, and the economic situation have a lot to do with why we aren't always happy-go-lucky in Michigan. But I am moving back...I actually miss it pretty badly. Specifically where I'm from (Ann Arbor area).
Hell yeah, I'd miss living in A A too. Aside from the over priced housing, the pot ordinance there is fucking awesome. Anywhere I could live without having to go to jail for burning buds is a place I could be happy. I could quit living in fear.
i lived out in michigan for 2 1/2 years in novi, people are definitely pretentious out there. everyone gives off the vibe that they think theyre better than each other and its just a big pissing contest over who had more money. after novi i moved out to allendale just north of grand rapids, on the Grand valley state campus .people there were pretty much the same superficial people from the east side of the state. i wound up living with 3 roommates though who i got along with real good only to find out that one was originally from louisiana one from north carolina and one from indiana.
Yeah I would have to agree with the genereal concensus on this one, I moved to Southeast MI from the South so of course to me its like night and day. Of course I am on the outskirts of Northville where everyone here is competing in the rat race.
