OT: This Damn Yankee is coming home
I just got a job back in Michigan and I will be back in time for football season. I guess I need to stop teaching my son to say "y'all" and "I'm fixin to..."
In my two years down here I've brought Alabama and Auburn national championships. I think it's pretty obvious why I wanted to come back home!
August 9th, 2011 at 11:21 AM ^
August 9th, 2011 at 11:54 AM ^
Welcome back, sir.
I was up at Mackinac Island last weekend and overheard a younger couple from Missouri talking at a bar we were at. They just were in NYC, Philadelphia and Washington DC and went up to Mackinac for their final weekend. They were pissed they didn't stay in Michigan the entire time. It feels great to hear things like that. Michigan is truly a great state.
August 9th, 2011 at 12:39 PM ^
Pretty jealous of those of you fortunate enough to return to the fatherland. I'm stuck in DC for at least 4 more years in all likelihood. Don't ever let anyone tell you that DC is a nice city - good to visit, shitty to live in.
I live in the city and I really enjoy it. NoVa would be a great place to live, too. In my opinion, the problem with living here IS the people that visit. Walking all slow and standing on the escalators and what not.
Detroit can't get its light rail soon enough...
Let's see, problems with DC: the weather is just horrible, the street layout looks like it was doodled by a 5-year old (7 way intersections? what?), and mass transit isn't much better, crime is too high, and it takes forever to get anywhere. Part of these are, of course, simply beefs against big city life, which I will freely admit. I don't know why people keep moving into big cities. But DC is a particularly unpleasant incarnation of the phenomenon. Every single day I think at least once or twice about moving out.
Thank goodness, though, for the Alumni Association down here. Buffalo Billiards is a fantastic way to watch the games!
Different strokes for different folks I guess. I definitely enjoy city life, but if that's not your cup of tea, I can see why you wouldn't like DC. Agree on the weather - the summer are pretty terrible. But terrible traffic keeps me employed and not having a car keeps me away from it in the first place, so I can't complain. If it's any consolation, I can't see why people keep moving to suburbs either.
I don't do any alumni activities, but I definitely do need to make it to Buffalo Billiards a couple times this season.
August 9th, 2011 at 12:42 PM ^
Did you find a high-powered legal job up there?
Gainfully employed in a mild-to-moderate-power legal job; entry level job, but with a big name corporation (which makes me very fortunate in this climate). The irony of the whole thing is that my job essentially puts me on Michigan State's campus 45 hours per week.
Thanks again for your help a few months back.
August 9th, 2011 at 12:00 PM ^
Back to Bama if you bring MSU a title first.
August 9th, 2011 at 12:05 PM ^
Way to make me home sick before I even leave.....
August 9th, 2011 at 12:09 PM ^
But who gives a shit?
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Thanks for being the first person to be a dick about my first ever thread.
just 1 dude hatin on you, the rest of us got you man, by the way are you going to change your name now? Lol that stuckinBama part doesnt really apply any more.
LOL!
August 9th, 2011 at 12:20 PM ^
Wish I could follow you.
August 9th, 2011 at 12:40 PM ^
Bring a championship back home with ya my man, welcome home. Go Blue!
Hey, congrats. I'm a native Michigander who moved out to California three and a half years ago and I still toy with the idea of moving back. Cali ain't all it's cracked up to be, and Michigan ain't as bad as it's cracked down to be. You don't realize that until you leave.
Welcome back. Thanks everyone for reminding me what a hole full of screwed up everything the US south is, east of the Mississippi.
If we win the national title this year, you're officially the utlimate good luck charm.
Congrats to you and your family.
Welcome back to the great state of Michigan. As someone who hopped around the country/world for ten years and moved back a year ago, I'm almost a bit jealous: moving back is a great feeling.
Congratulations
Congrats! After 5 years of living in Arizona, I too am making the return back to Ann Arbor at the end of this month, and I am incredibly excited. Nothing makes you appreciate Ann Arbor more than living away from it. Its just that damn incredible of a city.
......to everyone returning to Michigan. I have had the fortune of not only growing up around Ann Arbor, but going to school at the University Of Michigan and finding pretty good work with a major regional entity. Having been to many of the places people have mentioned here, it is always nice to come back to Michigan at the end of each trip. Wherever I go in the world, this state is always "home".
August 9th, 2011 at 10:02 PM ^
I actually have spent a decent amount of time in Alabama as well (about 7 years, although for 3 of them I was in school at UofM)...it definitely lives up to many of the stereotypes, although where I lived wasn't quite as bad (Huntsville). However, I'd say it was worth living there just to be able to experience an environment where the only show in the state is college sports. I got to go to the 2009 Iron Bowl, a truly unbelievable experience.
That said, I'll take being in Ann Arbor over anywhere else every day of the week and twice on Sunday.