[magellan]

Originally Posted by southernlady5464

LOL, no it just feels like it does after 7-8 months of cold.

It's not even the cold all the time but the cold, warm, then cold again...like Mother Nature doesn't want to let go. You can't count on it being free of frost until late May and not having a first frost after mid Sept. You can get warm between mid-sept and late May but for planting, you have to be careful.

And cold/humid is hard on those with arthritis type diseases. At least in NC it's warm...it may be humid but it's warm. Liz

I agree that cold is hard on arthritis (not that I have it yet), and the weather whiplash in April and May is hard on the neck. As my Dad used to say to me and my brother "It puts hair on your chest".

[jeffncandace]

Originally Posted by magellan

People seem to even stretch winter out longer than it really is. I'm waiting for that one poster to claim winter lasts year round in Michigan.

Yes, it does occasionally snow in October, but it's more the exception than the rule. We've driven to Saginaw from Grand Rapids EVERY YEAR for 10 years for Thanksgiving (late November), across M-46 or M-57, and I don't ever remember driving it in the snow. I've even wondered if we were going to have a white Christmas (snow on the ground) in the last couple of years, and we supposedly live in the "snow belt" over here.

I think if people determine that they don't like something (like winter in Michigan), than their mind amplifies that thing to reinforce their decision. It's just like once you determine you don't like your job or your boss. Every day that goes by, it (or he/she) gets worse and worse. It's just human nature.

So, so true. Just like I hate the heat and hate the desert...I know that alot of that is my personal perception.

We didn't have a white Christmas over on this side of MI last year! Mind blowing, really...well not to me since I'm not used to them, but I was really looking forward to having my first every white Christmas...then nothing!

[southernlady5464]

We didn't have a white Christmas over on this side of MI last year! Mind blowing, really...well not to me since I'm not used to them, but I was really looking forward to having my first every white Christmas...then nothing!

My first Christmas spent in MI was a white Christmas...it was actually our second up there but the first one we spent there.

On Dec 24th, at 10PM, it started snowing and continued thru the night. My Mother had died May of that year and I had never had a white Christmas before that. This is what I wrote to some friends of mine that year:

I HAVE MY WHITE CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!

As long as I have been wishing and hoping, it's finally come true. I have my first white Christmas. It started snowing about 10PM last night. Dh and I discovered it when we headed out to Midnight Mass.

I know in my head, it's just a weather system but in my heart....my Mother gave it to me as HER Christmas gift.

Liz

[The_Anonymous_American]

But we had a white Easter.

[magellan]

Originally Posted by The_Anonymous_American

But we had a white Easter.

Yes, that sucked didn't it?! I have pictures of the kids doing an Easter Egg hunt in their winter coats and snow all over the ground. How depressing. I'd happily trade a white Thanksgiving every year for the guarantee of no snow beyond the end of February (without having to move thank you very much).

[rutha1105]

Originally Posted by lady blue

I too, left Michigan 5 years ago. For similar reasons I had to get away. I, a single mom of two feared for my sons lives. I detested the gangs, the drugs, the crimes and sirens every night where we lived. After 9/11 something changed, I didn't want to be near a big city anymore. We moved to a sleepy hicktown in the midwest, where people drive old cars, don't take baths and don't cut their hair. I found a job. My kids are ok. I went back to college and my first son and I will graduate this December. Many things have happened since we moved. I found though it was the silly things that I miss from Michigan. I miss the stores and malls, my favorite restaurants, the familiarity of roads, landmarks and snow. Where we live now, we have no fresh air breezes from the cool summers blowing through the house. The air runs all summer, the heat all winter. We have bugs I never saw in Michigan, we have snakes and wierd lizards. Coyotes howl at night and deer eat my flowers and vegetables. The neighbors don't speak to us because we don't have guns. We constantly battle the elements and I know what a tick is. People are strange, it's a step back into the 60's. They sit on their porches, they don't lock their doors, they leave their car windows down and keys in the ignition. Yes we will come back someday soon. You can take the girl out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the girl. I am proud to always say I'm a native Detroiter, born in the city, motown will forever be by hometown. My family are all there, and at Woodmere...I'm coming home soon...

Where'd ya go? Sounds like my version of Heaven on Earth (except for the ticks...)

[rutha1105]

Originally Posted by rutha1105

Where'd ya go? Sounds like my version of Heaven on Earth (except for the ticks...)

Oops, didn't read far enough into the thread. I'm definitely checking out Evansville- perhaps further south...

[browneyedgurl]

I've moved from Michigan once, moved back, and am planning to move again in a few days. And the reason for both moves is purely due to school. I had a scholarship to go to school in Florida, so I took it (though I actually transferred and got my bachelor's from UofM). Now I have a scholarship to go to grad school in Illinois, so Illinois, here I come!

[Frankawitz]

I sat here and read most of the posts, I have to say that with the job market so bad, I feel for everyone. But if you have ever been self employed and run your own business, let me tell you it's getting harder to make the ends meet anymore. I have been in construction for 27 years and these past two years have been far worst then any year. I have had to take out loans from my Home and personal loans just so we could make it thur the winters, Our business has seen a down turn like no other before, and when I talk with my customer who are Bankers and Lawyers and Realtors and they tell me we are going down fast and won't come back for years, I believe the move out west is going to happen this year, I have talked with some people and they tell me that with what I do Plastering url removed could make some real good money, so now I have to decide how to make this move with little cash on hand, after 22 years in business it gonna be hard to start all over or I'll have to go to work for somebody else. But you gotta do what you gotta do. I hope for the best to all of you who stay. Hope someone can keep the light on, Cause I plan on keeping my house just have to board it up cause I'm sure the neighbors would steal anything they could out of it. Take Care. West ward Oh!!

[southernlady5464]

Housing Crisis Knocks Loudly in Michigan

This article is from March 2007. Doesn't give us much hope for the MI economy unless something changes in Lansing fairly soon. Liz