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View Poll Results: What should we do with Michigan after everyone leaves the state?
Turn it into a gigantic National Park. 40 23.39%
Make it a huge prison, kinda like Escape From New York. 16 9.36%
My irrational hatred of Michigan runs so deep, I want to set the whole state on fire! 3 1.75%
Donate Michigan to Canada, let those Canuks give it a try! 34 19.88%
None of the above. It's obvious that this scenario is ridiculous, just like some opinions. 78 45.61%
Voters: 171. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 02-20-2009, 06:53 AM
 
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Please do!

Which will put people out of work all over the Southern US, because there are auto plants all over the US and not just Michigan. Suppliers, assembly, etc.... There is no real regional or state specific product that is produced for National and international consumption, it is a huge network that involves a lot of different states. Plus it would take more than a childish boycott od MI products by the Southern state to "Finish the job off" (plus ya'll have come to depend on most of those products anyway.)
Very funny. I do depend on cereal for breakfast.
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Old 02-20-2009, 07:20 AM
 
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I am buying land. The price has not dropped much yet. I wish people would hurry up and leave.
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Old 02-20-2009, 09:03 AM
 
Location: West Michigan
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I am buying land. The price has not dropped much yet. I wish people would hurry up and leave.
I hear you! I am keeping my eye on a few prizes in my neck of the woods, but the prices are holding pretty steady on land. Houses have dropped 13% on average, but land is stubbornly staying about the same here.
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Old 02-20-2009, 12:10 PM
 
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I hear you! I am keeping my eye on a few prizes in my neck of the woods, but the prices are holding pretty steady on land. Houses have dropped 13% on average, but land is stubbornly staying about the same here.
Why is land staying the same?
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Old 02-20-2009, 12:17 PM
 
Location: West Michigan
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Why is land staying the same?
No clue. I would guess (and it is only a guess on my part) that people figure that land is always going to be there and always going to be in demand so if they don't have anything to lose or keep up on it, just sit tight or get what you want out of it.
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Old 02-20-2009, 01:15 PM
 
Location: Metro Detroit
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According to anonymous poster after anonymous poster, Michigan is dead, or dying and about to breath it's last breath. There is no hope, no possibility for economic recovery, and every last one of the 10 million who live here is doing so for stupid, invalid reasons. Our very existence in Michigan is an exercise in futility.

So, for the sake of argument, let's just say you are right. We are on a downward spiral with no hope of recovery, no hope of getting better. Michigan is fatally ill.

So, naturally, we should all begin packing up and leaving. Of course, this will leave behind billions--maybe trillions--of dollars worth of buildings, businesses, homes, infrastructure, not to mention millions of acres of natural beauty. Oh, and the Great Lakes.

My question is for those of you who are obviously smarter than the rest of us dummies and have escaped the horror that is The Great Lakes State.

What should we do with the state once we have all vacated? Make it a giant national park? Turn the Detroit Metro into THE Federal Correctional Institution? Set fire to the entire state just to watch it burn? Give it to Canada? Just leave it empty?

What, since you are so sure that Michigan will NEVER turn around, should we do with it once we have all left?
I say let's become Canada so we can get free health care.
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Old 02-20-2009, 01:19 PM
 
Location: West Michigan
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I say let's become Canada so we can get free health care.
Screw that! Have you seen their taxes over there.
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Old 02-20-2009, 01:30 PM
 
Location: Metro Detroit
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Screw that! Have you seen their taxes over there.
Yeah I work with Canadians, or used to anyway, who commuted from Windsor everyday. Their taxes were higher but they definately had a better overall quality of life! Seriously.
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Old 02-20-2009, 01:38 PM
 
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I say let's become Canada so we can get free health care.
Naw....You pay for your heath care and I'll pay for mine. Hey, don't move north, move east. To Canada.
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Old 02-20-2009, 05:15 PM
 
Location: Upstate New York
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Please do!

Which will put people out of work all over the Southern US, because there are auto plants all over the US and not just Michigan. Suppliers, assembly, etc.... There is no real regional or state specific product that is produced for National and international consumption, it is a huge network that involves a lot of different states. Plus it would take more than a childish boycott od MI products by the Southern state to "Finish the job off" (plus ya'll have come to depend on most of those products anyway.)
Bydand, YOU GOT IT!
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