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Old 01-03-2014, 10:42 PM
 
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I was at Whole Food yesterday and saw a Volvo (complete with a rack of some sort on top) with about 4 or 5 bumper stickers on the back talking about supporting the local economy and buying local. The irony was too much for me to not LOL.

1. Whole Foods is as corporate and non-local as it gets.
Whole Foods actually has quite a good selection of products which were grown or made locally. This is used as a selling point.
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Old 01-04-2014, 03:50 AM
 
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Whole Foods actually has quite a good selection of products which were grown or made locally. This is used as a selling point.
There's Whole Food's "marketing", and then there is the truth. This article is a bit dated, but from what I understand that much of this is still accurate.

Nothing wrong with Whole Foods - some of the criticism it's received in the past year is silly. However, it is not in any way "local". If you are looking for a local experience, Ann Arbor has so many other options that are truly local and support the local economy. The Kerrytown Farmers Market, The Produce Station, heck, even the Busch's less than a mile away all have more products that put money directly back into the Michigan economy and reduce the carbon footprint of bringing something in from out of state.
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Old 02-09-2014, 05:14 PM
 
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Some guy just got shot in a Ann Arbor club not to long ago. People from Detroit come here for the bars a lot. Not that dangerous, sometimes bums ask me for cash but its a save haven compared to Detroit or Ypsi.
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Old 07-30-2014, 01:57 PM
 
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Talking Hahahaha

Ann Arbor is nothing like Detroit, haha
That was a good laugh I just had though ^__^

I grew up in Ann Arbor, and my boyfriend grew up in Detroit. Let me tell you, our experiences were as different as black and white.
Ann Arbor is a gorgeous, very safe little city. Detroit is...Detroit.

What Detroit has in abundance: burned out factories even in tourist areas, huge swaths of abandoned houses, graffiti, gangs, 3-day 911 response times, "no response" zones, boarded-up public libraries, unsolved homicides, and cheap real estate (that no one wants)!

What Ann Arbor has in abundance: yuppies, hippies, community celebrations, thriving small businesses, well-maintained houses, stringent meter maids, organic/vegan stores/restaurants, and pay-through-the-nose real estate (that people crawl over each other to make a bid on)!

The worst part of Ann Arbor (as a previous poster noted) is Ypsilanti. Ypsilanti is not a good area. That said, Ypsi does a surprisingly good job of staying out of Ann Arbor (and has for a loooong time). Moreover, Ypsi is nowhere even remotely close to being as bad as Detroit. Ypsi can be a rough area, but it is not a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
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Old 08-05-2014, 11:23 AM
 
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I laugh every time I see this question. Ann Arbor is night and day different than Detroit.
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Old 08-11-2014, 10:12 AM
 
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I laugh every time I see this question. Ann Arbor is night and day different than Detroit.
Unless you are hanging out with the crackheads and heroin users.
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Old 08-11-2014, 03:46 PM
 
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It's a typical college town. Mostly wealthy, mostly very brainy people -- the crime is college crime. Drug dealing, drunken hazing, Johnny Scrounge stealing your underwear at the Laundromat, gang rapes of unconscious students.
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Old 08-12-2014, 05:48 AM
 
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the crime is college crime.
LOL. If you ever have to go to district court in Ann Arbor or Ypsi, half the docket in front of the magistrate is underaged drinking related!
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Old 08-15-2014, 01:31 PM
 
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LOL. If you ever have to go to district court in Ann Arbor or Ypsi, half the docket in front of the magistrate is underaged drinking related!
Only half!? I'm surprised...
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Old 08-18-2014, 05:40 AM
 
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LOL. If you ever have to go to district court in Ann Arbor or Ypsi, half the docket in front of the magistrate is underaged drinking related!
I was talking to someone yesterday who used to be an ER nurse at U of M Hospital. He was telling me that during the first few weeks after the freshmen move into the dorms, they see a big influx of ER visits by students who are sick from acute alcohol consumption. When the staff tries to get their personal info and insurance info, the kids try to give their dorm address, but since most of them are covered by mom and dad's insurance, the hospital must get their permanent home address. That's when the kids start freaking out and asking what the documented diagnosis is going to be; "It's just going to say that I was 'sick', right? Nothing about drinking, right?" Nope, sorry, kids, but acute alcohol intoxication is the diagnosis, and you are officially BUSTED!

LOL.

(Not that this doesn't happen at college campuses all over the country, I was just saying. I thought it was kind of funny. "Grown up" enough to get wasted to the point of acute illness, but still wanting to hide it from mom and dad.)
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