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Old 12-07-2013, 10:12 PM
 
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What are you impressions of this place? A friend is thinking about moving there (cheap rent), and he asked me how I felt about the idea. I lived there for awhile, but it's been some time. I remember thinking it was the stodgiest place on earth, like some big junk community comprised of tacky furnishings and sickly-looking people. It seemed like the whole place dealt in a currency of fast food, high school football, cigarettes, and people magazine subscriptions. I cannot imagine much has changed.
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Old 12-08-2013, 05:24 PM
 
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What are you impressions of this place? A friend is thinking about moving there (cheap rent), and he asked me how I felt about the idea. I lived there for awhile, but it's been some time. I remember thinking it was the stodgiest place on earth, like some big junk community comprised of tacky furnishings and sickly-looking people. It seemed like the whole place dealt in a currency of fast food, high school football, cigarettes, and people magazine subscriptions. I cannot imagine much has changed.
I think you summed it up pretty well.
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Old 12-09-2013, 08:24 AM
 
Location: On the brink of WWIII
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Taylor-tucky is the place you ought to be
So they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly, Road that is...
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Old 12-09-2013, 10:01 AM
 
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There are some very nice areas Downriver. We keep it quiet, though, because the very last thing we want is to become one of those "trendy" places full of yuppie jerks and wanna-be's. Conspicuous consumption attracts them like flies to carrion. Pretty soon you've got traffic jams full of Beemers and Costco and Trader Joe's.
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Old 12-09-2013, 03:36 PM
 
Location: west mich
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Taylor-tucky is the place you ought to be
So they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly, Road that is...
Clever.
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Old 12-09-2013, 08:15 PM
 
Location: On the brink of WWIII
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Clever.
Well you know what they say, you can take the boy out of Taylor, but youy can't take Taylor out of the boy..
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Old 12-10-2013, 07:54 AM
 
Location: Ocqueoc, MI - Extreme N.E. Lower Peninsula
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What are you impressions of this place? A friend is thinking about moving there (cheap rent), and he asked me how I felt about the idea. I lived there for awhile, but it's been some time. I remember thinking it was the stodgiest place on earth, like some big junk community comprised of tacky furnishings and sickly-looking people. It seemed like the whole place dealt in a currency of fast food, high school football, cigarettes, and people magazine subscriptions. I cannot imagine much has changed.
Your impression seems pretty well set. I doubt anything I say will change your mind much.

For the most part, the Downriver area is a blue collar community. While you'll absolutely find examples of what you describe, I certainly don't agree that what you describe is the sum total of the Downriver experience. I was born and raised in Taylor, and family and friends have me in the Taylor, Flat Rock, Trenton, Monroe, Newport, and Gibraltar areas on a regular basis. I find the people in the Downriver area, for the most part, to be extremely "real" and unpretentious. I'm proud to say I'm from there.

To address your question, here is my impression. If you believe your friend will be comfortable in a non-trendy blue collar environment, don't steer him away. If you believe his perception of the area would match your own, steer freely.
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Old 12-11-2013, 10:16 PM
 
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Downriver?

I took a sizeable chunk out of my retirement savings to loan my Allen Park born and raised wife's Allen Park born and half-raised daughter and her husband so they could buy a house in decidely not "downriver" Edmond, OK. Why? Because that put them in a good neighborhood about ten minutes from her mom and me also living in Edmond. Their mortgage credit score was such that they couldn't get approval for a mortgage with a small down payment but could with more cash up front.

Now the wife and I are separated and supposedly were working towards getting back together. Both in therapy, both working on our own issues, having dinners together, etc. That is until she informed me today the money I loaned her daughter was a "gift" and she and her husband wouldn't be paying me back. They had already paid me back about $1,000 when the daughter got pregnant (an absolute miracle given her medical issues) and, knowing it was going to be a VERY expensive pregnancy with all medical expenses that would come their way to prevent losing the child, I agreed to forego payments for a couple of years, a couple of years that now will be more like a couple of centuries (millennia?).

Having worked in several deep south states for ten years or so and having become familiar with what the better class of natives there call "Rednecks" I can assure you that there is an amazingly strong resemblance between "Downriver" and "Redneck", I would say they're identical species except for diet.

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Old 12-12-2013, 12:49 PM
 
Location: west mich
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Downriver?

I took a sizeable chunk out of my retirement savings to loan my Allen Park born and raised wife's Allen Park born and half-raised daughter and her husband so they could buy a house in decidely not "downriver" Edmond, OK. Why? Because that put them in a good neighborhood about ten minutes from her mom and me also living in Edmond. Their mortgage credit score was such that they couldn't get approval for a mortgage with a small down payment but could with more cash up front.

Now the wife and I are separated and supposedly were working towards getting back together. Both in therapy, both working on our own issues, having dinners together, etc. That is until she informed me today the money I loaned her daughter was a "gift" and she and her husband wouldn't be paying me back. They had already paid me back about $1,000 when the daughter got pregnant (an absolute miracle given her medical issues) and, knowing it was going to be a VERY expensive pregnancy with all medical expenses that would come their way to prevent losing the child, I agreed to forego payments for a couple of years, a couple of years that now will be more like a couple of centuries (millennia?).

Having worked in several deep south states for ten years or so and having become familiar with what the better class of natives there call "Rednecks" I can assure you that there is an amazingly strong resemblance between "Downriver" and "Redneck", I would say they're identical species except for diet.
If they repaid some money, then it is not a "gift" - even in their eyes. Sounds like you have a good case for small claims court - or Judge Judy. Seriously.
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Old 12-12-2013, 11:53 PM
 
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For the most part, the Downriver area is a blue collar community...

...If you believe your friend will be comfortable in a non-trendy blue collar environment, don't steer him away...
^^^Pretty much this.

Downriver (I think Southern Macomb County is the same way) is what it is. You'll either hate it or love it, depending on your taste.
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