[cripplecreek]

Detroit has its obvious problems but if I had to live in a city I would easily choose Detroit over most based on some of the basic freedoms. There is no one in Detroit telling you what to eat or drink, what to drive, if I can smoke.....

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

-CS Lewis

[Mathews]

I had to move here 2.5 yrs ago and was not keen on the idea. I thought this was going to be a liberal's paradise, a nanny state and a prog hell. I have found, however, these assumptions were just that, assumptions. Michigan is pretty free. If we could just lose the Unions and keep the libs in Ann Arbor penned up...