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Old 01-11-2012, 09:20 PM
 
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First time poster

Just wondering if you know of a similar city to Ann Arbor, MI in CA?

People
Political views
Housing market
Education
Cost of living (AA is one if the more expensive areas in Michigan)


I know it's a broad question, but I just wanted some ideas/opinions to flow. Thanks!
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Old 01-11-2012, 10:42 PM
 
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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Hi first time poster.
Why do you assume that people on the California forum know anything about Ann Arbor, Michigan?
A few might.
I sure don't.
Let it be known what the people, politics, education, housing market, cost of living are all about in AA and then there will be some basis for comparison.

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Old 01-11-2012, 11:15 PM
 
Location: Sacramento
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Berkeley is somewhat similar to Ann Arbor. Naturally the atmosphere is a bit different in CA, but that is probably a fairly good comp.
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Old 01-12-2012, 12:20 AM
 
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I have heard that Ann Arbor was an outpost of the old Soviet Union,,so yeah Berkeley is a good equivalent. Enjoy,
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Old 01-12-2012, 12:33 AM
 
Location: The High Seas
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Who is this Ann Arbor you speak of?
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Old 01-12-2012, 12:36 AM
 
Location: The Bay
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I third Berkeley.
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Old 01-12-2012, 12:45 AM
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MI is a classic safety school in Eastern US for those who can't gain admission to more elite schools like IL CS or Stanford CS or Berk CS

AA has been unable to spawn any valuable local economy or innovation, so any productive grads immediately flee to Chic as a minimum...and smartest end up in PaloAlto region

Most similar commie, pseudo-intellectual town in CA is Berk....safety school for those who couldn't gain admission to Stanford Engineering
Smartest Berk CS grads flee EastBay for jobs and life in PaloAlto region upon grad
Interestingly, EastBay's economy is about as taxpayer welfare-dependent and intellectually bankrupt as MI's or any other unionized/gvt/college/healthcare-dependent region's Ponzi economy (think Bos or DC or NYC)

Where smartest kids of any HS/college choose to flee to pursue their careers reveals far more than where is "best" college to which they could gain admission...
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Old 01-12-2012, 01:22 AM
 
Location: The Bay
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MI is a classic safety school in Eastern US for those who can't gain admission to more elite schools like IL CS or Stanford CS or Berk CS

AA has been unable to spawn any valuable local economy or innovation, so any productive grads immediately flee to Chic as a minimum...and smartest end up in PaloAlto region

Most similar commie, pseudo-intellectual town in CA is Berk....safety school for those who couldn't gain admission to Stanford Engineering
Smartest Berk CS grads flee EastBay for jobs and life in PaloAlto region upon grad
Interestingly, EastBay's economy is about as taxpayer welfare-dependent and intellectually bankrupt as MI's or any other unionized/gvt/college/healthcare-dependent region's Ponzi economy (think Bos or DC or NYC)

Where smartest kids of any HS/college choose to flee to pursue their careers reveals far more than where is "best" college to which they could gain admission...
Calling UC Berkeley a safety school is about as worthy as calling Stanford a safety school.

And newsflash, it doesn't require more "intelligence" to work in Silicon Valley... there's a couple boatloads of incompetence to go around in that neck of the woods.
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Old 01-12-2012, 01:27 AM
 
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Who is this Ann Arbor you speak of?
Ann was the daughter of one of Michigan's most famous big game hunters, Cal Arbor. She became heir to the great fortune her father amassed from selling off the timber felled by his aggressive moose hunting techniques in the "Youper" country in the great white north of the state.

Ann did not share her father's enthusiasm and bloodlust for moose. She was appalled by it. But even more so she was appalled by the loss of forest her father shot down. Upon his death Ann took it upon herself to try and rectify her father's sin. (In her eyes, the destruction of forest was a sin ... really very prescient of her back in the day.)

As the story goes, on one late April day, Ann was struck by a calling to use her father's fortune to promote replenishment of the forests. She bought a number of saplings and enlisted the help of the many folks in Michigan who were out of work after there was no more timber for the sawmills. On the last Friday of April, 1872, Ann and her army planted those trees as spring vernally burst forth. It became the tradition we now know as "Arbor Day", in honor of Ann's work and investment in the future forests for all our children to enjoy and through which to find gainful employment.

This, at least, is how my father told the story to me as a lad in Michigan where I was born.

Thank you Ann Arbor of Michigan.
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Old 01-12-2012, 09:24 AM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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I had always heard it was a port on Lake Michigan colonized by Cockneys from East London. And that if the Edmund Fitzgerald had made it into Ann Arbor it would not have gone down.
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