[tiamat]

You aren't missing a thing.

First, understand. I am biased. I hate an despise Ann Arbor, and can't wait to move away from it. I vist down-town twice a year, if that.

Ann Arbor is the bigget, snobbiest, most pretentious, most over-rated nest of libralism that isn't actually on a coast of the US. It is the home of Birkenstock clad Marxists and elitist Upper-Middle Socialists. And intellectuals . Mustn't forget them!

Many of the store-fronts are empty because the rent is so high, and most of the good restaurants from 20 years ago are gone. If a store or restaurant DOES open, chances are it will be folded up within six months because it is a trendy boutique that sells nothing preactical, ( And just how many sushi places can one city support? ) Parking is ridiculous and the city supports itself through ticketing.

It's nigh unto impossible to go anywhere EAST of our place on a foot-ball weeknd, because traffic is so bad, and most of the drivers seem to be drunk.

The drivers are fool-hardy and rude at the best of times. Latte in one hand, cell-phone in the other, never signalling and zooming across three lanes of traffic to get onto the high-way. Makes me wish I had rocket-launchers.

The school system is a wreck, ( but it's diverse! ) and crime is rampant. If the mall actually had anything I wanted to buy, I still would not go there, because you can get mugged and ppssibly killed in broad day-light by roving gangs.

Michigan has a lot of great things, but Ann Arbor isn't one of them.

Now aren't you sorry you mentioned it? LOL!

;-)

[tomkow6]

Ann Arbor? One of my "voices" is pretty sure he took her to his high school prom......

[beachn4fun]

Well gee....sounds just like our neck of the woods. There's less of this the further north/south/east/west of DC/Metro, but there are so many places probably within a 20-30 mile radius of DC just as you described! Our major roadways have exactly the drivers you described too. And, Waldorf, Maryland is being built up just as you described AA. I hate going there. I try to avoid it as much as possible. And, they are still not finished building. I am on the hunt for a small, quaint town to move to.

[Valin]

Yes, but other than that how is it?