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detroit

Hell's corporate headquarters

Where corporate HQs like Comerica move to better places in the SunBelt.

Gunbelt.

Where people don't live anymore.

Where urban revitalization is not.

The single-worst city in the country.

A population loss of over 50% in 5 decades. Current population of about 850,000 from 1.6 million and not even in the top 10 largest US cities anymore.

Where jobs are not.

Anything south of 8 Mile Road where you turn around as you approach the city limits.

A place called Flint is even better.

Where the first state government moved out over 100 years ago.

Even San Jose, CA now has a larger population.

The opposite of San Diego and Seattle.

urban blight

rampant homicide

hell

revitalization is a joke

"white flight"

Detroit

by [e-mail] March 23, 2007

Fear Factor

A summer "reality" series that airs on NBC where contestants compete in dangerous and sometimes digusting stunts for $50,000 that often include eating something sick.

Fear Factor was disgusting and NBC should have pulled it off the air a long time ago.

by [e-mail] October 6, 2007

Democrat

One of the two major political parties in the U.S. run by rich lobbyists known for radical spending, special interest and high taxes.

see: Republican

The Democrat party represents its own self interest.

by [e-mail] February 2, 2008

airline

A transportation company that is supposed to get you from one coast to the other in a a few hours but is permitted by the FAA and Dept. of Transportation to abuse its customers by trapping them for hours at a time on the ground without access to water, snacks, or a bathroom; and losing your expensive baggage--only to return it to you weeks later and in bad condition; not to mention having seats that are dangerously narrow and if a person is fat, they have to buy an extra seat; and the aircraft's operator is drunk.

The airline lives up to its reputation--it doesn't matter wheather you are going to heaven or hell, you have to go through Chicago.

by [e-mail] May 9, 2008

south central

Traditionally, the largest concentration of blacks in Los Angeles, California and the city‘s most economically-depressed area. It has transitioned into a center for Latinos today and are now the area’s largest minority. South Central has been notorious in the media as a haven for violent crime, gangs, drugs and riots (the most recent in 1992 was the worst). Watts is its most well-known neighborhood. South Central Los Angeles is now referred to as “South Los Angeles” and is a loose term that includes all of south Los Angeles, south of The Santa Monica Freeway and downtown and includes independent cities within the region: Compton, Inglewood, Downey and Bellflower. It was depicted in the movie “Boyz n the Hood.

South Central is about the worst place for anybody in any city to live. Ghetto and gangsta at its finest.

by [e-mail] September 12, 2007

Survivor

A reality tv show on CBS, created by Mark Burnett, that debued in the summer of 2000 and features sixteen contestants or “castaways” originally composed of two teams of eight that live in seclusion in a remote part of the world to eat bugs, snakes, dirt, game and scorpions for like a month for a million dollars. Physical competitions are held each week to determine which team will win an award challenge, and then another challenge to determine who will win immunity. The team that doesnt win immunity must vote off a teammate. This also happens after the tribal merge but immunity goes to the individual instead and an individual is then voted out of the game. Midway through the season, the two teams are merged to form a single tribe when the real cut-throat part of the game really begins, where your friend is now your foe. The winner of the $1 million is announced on live television on the last episode.

The show has been filmed in such remote locations as Borneo (the 1st season), the Australian Outback, the Marcaisas, the Amazon, China, Pearl Islands, Panama and Fiji.

Let's be honest, the only way you can appear as a contestant on Survivor, is by being gay (Richard Hatch, the original winner), a model, a freek or incrediblly narcistic like Johnny Fairplay (the most evil Survivor contestant ever). Normal people need not apply.

by [e-mail] April 29, 2008

Colorado

A state with extreme scerenity, significant sunshine (over 300 days of sunshine a year in Denver) and the best opportunities to enjoy the outdoors. The Rocky Mountains make it the state with the highest average elevation. Denver, its capital and largest city (population 570,000), is called the “Mile High City” because it’s capitol is exactly one mile in elevation. Denver is consistently ranked among the top of America’s “fittest” , “thinnest” , and “most educated” cities. About half of the state’s 5 million residents live in the Greater Denver Metro area. Other important population centers include Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Fort Collins—all of which are located on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. Colorado has extreme variations in climate. People in Denver can get a tan and snow ski in the same day. The enormous flat plains of eastern Colorado get huge thunderstorms in the spring and summer that make for a great lightening show and tornadoes. Colorado is where the song, America the Beautiful was written. “For purple mountains majesty above the fruited plain” describes Colorado to a tee. Beef cattle and wheat are its two largest agricultural products.

I wouldn't mind living in Colorado. It's progressive, has a reasonable cost of living and generally friendly people.

by [e-mail] December 28, 2007