Originally Posted by MitchStellin

Hey Woogie, who are you? I live on the North side near the State Park. I luanch at the DNR ramp.

Originally Posted by formula1

Scott, is that Cedar Point in the background?

Originally Posted by vtec

Can somebody tell me how Michigan is better than Florida?

Michigan:
-Governor taxing us every which way (license fees, click it or ticket,)
-Cities (like the St. Clair Shores) raise property taxes to hire more cops..to give you seat belt tickets...to raise revenues...to give cops overtime to patrol streets...to give parking tickets...to raise revenues)
-Hip Hop Mayor of Detroit (I'm jealous of all his strippers)
-Detroit...greyest city on earth
-High unemployment...not gonna change anytime soon..yet Fed is raising interest rates... cause the rest of county ain't a piece of crap...like Michigan.... and they actually have positive GDP
-guys with 3 teeth...sayin' we need more unions...so more jobs can leave
-Bad roads (you have to have a SUV....or you'll bend rims)
-Bad weather
-spend 20 minutes a week scraping ice of your windsheild
-freeze your azz off for the first 10 minutes on your way to work...while you can't see out your windsheild
-car door freezes shut.....break handle opening door...start day off on bad note
-shovel the perimeter of your roof to prevent ice damns
-shovel the driveway, sidewalk etc.
-have to get up extra early to clean and warm car=less sleep or....late for work
-all this while on your so-called Christmas Vacation
-salt all over every crevis of your car=rust
-4 month boating season....and it'll rain on saturday and sunday
-go boating not cause you want to...but because you make 12 payments a year and can only use the thing 4 months... and you feel guilty
-4 month golf season...it'll rain on golf day...then course will be too wet half the time,
and when it's a nice day..local courses are packed (cause everybodys gotta golf...cause they only got a 4 month season)
-public schools in wealthy areas (Bloomfield, Rochester Hills, Troy) are good....rest are cartel (teachers union) controlled waste of my tax money..see Governor
-fat people(all of U.S midwest)(fat people are slow in the grocery line, and at the mall, etc.....4 skinny females......8 thousand guys chasin'em.....fat girls even start thinking their hot)
-vacation= leave state
-tomorrow....people are boating in Florida....tomorrow...people in Michigan are posting on the internet...about boating

Florida:
-Tee times on Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.
-Fun Runs on New Years Day(what are you doing over the holidays?.....ah... boating
-South Beach...new invention....skinny people....who are good looking.
-Jeb
-lower taxes (state average)
-lower cost of living (state average)
-hurricane guarentees new HD tv's every 4 years.... and new stereo...take my clothes while you're at it
-car last longer..no potholes...no salt....no fat people at grocery store banging into everything
-don't have to go tanning
-Key West..Miami Vice...stiltsville...Marathon......long bridge over beautiful water
-Southern people are more friendly......and skinnyer
-vacation destination...cause it's desirable...unlike Michigan

"Re: Headed to MI, any suggestions or comments?"

YEAH......DON'T COME HERE

Originally Posted by formula1

Aren't all the roads less than ideal up there!?!?!!?

Originally Posted by articfriends

FLORIDA?Every year i go visit my parents in florida for a week,usually the coldest wk they have on record,especially when i tow my boat down their!! I always see OLD people when i'm down their but i do see the skinny girls you guys are talking about every time i turn on cops,if you could get them off the crystal meth and take them to a dentist i guess they would be ok but then again they'd probably fatten up once they were no longer homeless and started eating again . If you do move to michigan,we have great boating and snowmobiling, BUT,you'll have to find something else to do the other 6 months a year ,Smitty

Originally Posted by Woogie

Hey Mitch good to meet ya - Northsider also - live in the first cottage I bought out here 20 some yrs ago - have owned many here but always kept this one because it has an association dock and a view of all the boats that launch from the DNR ramp. Little place in the Chippewa Resort. Was an exhibit/trade show rep out of GR for many years and bought/restored cottages out here in spare time. Now I just design/build 1 per year on spec and pray for a buyer! If you get a chance ck out 386 Big Bay Dr.- sums up my work.
Are you in Crosswinds? I thought I saw an Active poking out of a garage in there last summer. I kind of miss all the offshore boats that used to be out of here - SNAFU, SOO BAD, INSATIABLE, MINE, 168TH AIRBORNE ,CATNIP, etc.. we used to do some wild "pickle" runs. But hey it ain't over - been seeing alot more big Skaters, PQ's, and Cigs. Right now all I have is 185 PQ - see PQ section for pics. Plan is to build a long heated garage this year then do an older Cig or Magnum project. Meanwhile, we gotta work on Formula1's wife - convince her how beautiful that soft white Lake Effect snow is! Joe

Originally Posted by Dono

You wont see all these Michiganders puttin it down when its 85 and sunny.