Comments on: Detroit – A.K.A. A Cautionary Tale for the Rest of America http://parrotheadjeff.com/blog/archives/9326/detroit-a-k-a-a-cautionary-tale-for-the-rest-of-america/ Come on in and hang out a while Wed, 23 May 2012 03:50:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Buck http://parrotheadjeff.com/blog/archives/9326/detroit-a-k-a-a-cautionary-tale-for-the-rest-of-america/comment-page-1/#comment-22307 Buck Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:49:04 +0000 http://parrotheadjeff.com/blog/?p=9326#comment-22307 BTW... my blog-bud Morgan spent time in Dee-troit, so he understands my cryptic use of "Eight Mile." Eight Mile Road is the boundary between the city of Detroit and the near burbs. I thought maybe I should do some 'splainin'. ;) BTW… my blog-bud Morgan spent time in Dee-troit, so he understands my cryptic use of “Eight Mile.” Eight Mile Road is the boundary between the city of Detroit and the near burbs. I thought maybe I should do some ‘splainin’. ;)

]]> By: Buck http://parrotheadjeff.com/blog/archives/9326/detroit-a-k-a-a-cautionary-tale-for-the-rest-of-america/comment-page-1/#comment-22306 Buck Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:46:13 +0000 http://parrotheadjeff.com/blog/?p=9326#comment-22306 I saw Crowder's vid earlier today at one of my daily reads. I'll just repost what I said over at Morgan's House, rather than re-invent the wheel: <blockquote> Things surely do suck south of Eight Mile. But Detroit remains a beautiful place <i>north</i> of Eight Mile. Scroll down to my first post this past Sunday for a recent (2007, I think) Google Earth street view of my old neighborhood… and Ferndale ain’t Bloomfield Hills… it’s a working-class sorta ‘burb where life was pretty danged good 15 years ago, and looks like it still might be. But as for the City of Detroit? I weep, and with good reason. - bpenni | 12/22/2009 @ 13:04 </blockquote> I saw Crowder’s vid earlier today at one of my daily reads. I’ll just repost what I said over at Morgan’s House, rather than re-invent the wheel:

Things surely do suck south of Eight Mile. But Detroit remains a beautiful place north of Eight Mile. Scroll down to my first post this past Sunday for a recent (2007, I think) Google Earth street view of my old neighborhood… and Ferndale ain’t Bloomfield Hills… it’s a working-class sorta ‘burb where life was pretty danged good 15 years ago, and looks like it still might be.

But as for the City of Detroit? I weep, and with good reason.
– bpenni | 12/22/2009 @ 13:04

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