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How crazy would I need to be to move to Detroit?

Posted on 07/29/2017 10:37:51 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck

Back in job market again after end of my current contract. I updated my listings (as a UNIX/LINUX C and C++ expert) on Dice and Monster the other day, and the phone began ringing off the hook.

Well, one recruiter wants to know if I am interested in full time work, direct hire, in Detroit, for the process control of a steel mill whose business is reportedly burgeoning.

This looks like a MAGA move to me, and the recruiter points out that it isn't all decay, there is rebuilding going on too.

My rhetorical question: how crazy does a high tech red neck have to be to make such a move? It can't be all bad -- this is Kid Rock territory after all.

To slum in order to MAGA or not to slum, that is the question.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: completelycrazy; crazy; detroit; gainesville; maga; michiganhellhole
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241 posted on 08/01/2017 4:21:48 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Ha ha ha!


242 posted on 08/01/2017 5:03:20 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Good luck! You’ll like Gainsville


243 posted on 08/01/2017 7:24:32 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

If you like the outdoors, and wildlife, you should like Florida. (Here's just a small sample of some of the exotic wildlife you'll find down there, before you even venture into Gatorland or Disneyworld.)



Snakes


Chameleons


Huge Palmetto Bugs


Huge Alligators

Best wishes in your search.
244 posted on 08/01/2017 8:09:19 PM PDT by Songcraft (Pray without ceasing. 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

(You might want to do a Google search on Florida sinkholes too...)


245 posted on 08/01/2017 8:13:23 PM PDT by Songcraft (Pray without ceasing. 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Check out www.city-data.com too.


246 posted on 08/01/2017 8:23:13 PM PDT by Yaelle (We have a Crisis of Information in this country. Our enemies hold the megaphone.)
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To: Pray All Day

That would be another reason to pray all day. Alachua County shows about 5 sinkhole sites on its 2009 map. Most of it, however, no sinkholes. Still, aquifer draining has a way of worsening it. Ah, if the good Lord wants me to die in a sinkhole I will.


247 posted on 08/02/2017 8:35:18 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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That's the spirit, HTRN!     :-)

(You'll get used to those exotic critters after a while too.   It might take just a bit longer, however, to get used to the daily thunderstorms that come and go every afternoon -- if it's anything like Central Florida there!)     :-)

I found this sentence in the Wikipedia page for Gainesville, Fl:

"Also in 2007, Gainesville was ranked as one of the 'best places to live and play' in the United States by National Geographic Adventure."

248 posted on 08/02/2017 9:52:26 AM PDT by Songcraft (Pray without ceasing. 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Got get it. Let us know how it goes.


249 posted on 08/02/2017 4:33:39 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: BRL

Someone else told me about Gran Torino, I’ll have to watch!


250 posted on 08/02/2017 6:09:33 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: MarMema

Will be glad to salute you across the miles, just because you were so friendly about Detroit. And who knows. I may see a quirk of destiny and end up in Detroit anyhow, after trying for Gainesville. When I end up with a job offer that is viable, sometimes it happens so quick that the previous week I didn’t even know about the place.


251 posted on 08/02/2017 6:52:48 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Pray All Day

I keep on wondering why our geological exploration methods aren’t good enough to suss out most incipient sinkholes. We can find oil thousands of feet underground.


252 posted on 08/02/2017 6:55:15 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: discostu

Bump


253 posted on 08/06/2017 7:42:03 PM PDT by foreverfree
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