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Moving to Michigan…I have questions, can you help?

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:25:15 +0000

I’m going to be moving to Michigan soon (not my choice, husbands job alas).
I am a Pacific Northwest girl (more specifically an Olympic Peninsula chick . For me that means a healthy feeling of suffocation around dense populated areas, a love of nature, wide open highways with few cars, and a thrill of shopping at funky unusual eccentric stores that haven’t been gobbled up by the commercial ones out there like Wal-mart. I know nothing of Michigan. I’ve visited twice and my husband and I have vastly different feelings about the place.
He saw: Lovely almost New England type houses and quiet neighborhoods and pretty countryside with modern conveniences.
I saw: Sprawling suburban nightmarish clusterfleck reminiscent of Edward Scissor hands. Nothing original, everyone a cookie cutter of their neighbor. TOo many people!

MY QUESTION IS:
Is there anywhere in Michigan that is not urban Sprawl? Where is a good place for me to live?

Is there anywhere in Michigan that is a med-small size town (pop 12,000 -18,000 or so) with low crime rates, a commuter train/bus that goes into larger cities (about 30 mins or so away) , near a body of water (doesn’t have to be the great lakes, rivers and oversize ponds are ok. )? I’m hoping for somewhere that has a higher quality/more money invested into the town. Where the people are a little bit more… sophisticated. Somewhere that well-off people might go to do their Christmas shopping because they just adore "random name town" or where people might love to look at the neighborhoods on a tour, because the houses are so nice. One of those quaint eclectic towns with a bustling holiday season, an active Artisan community, and always has something going on for bored minds to do (art fairs, and seasonal festivals, improv theatre, plays, musicals etc) and also a healthy dose of scenic woodlands, hiking/biking trails, and low traffic. Quaint little teahouses/coffeehouses is also nice. (Wouldn’t say no to a good Indian/Thai restaurant as well!)

I get all of that currently from the area surrounding my town. I’m going to be sad to leave, this is going to be rough.

Moving to Michigan…I have questions, can you help?

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:37:14 +0000

MY QUESTION IS:
Is there anywhere in Michigan that is not urban Sprawl? Where is a good place for me to live?

I get all of that currently from the area surrounding my town. I’m going to be sad to leave, this is going to be rough.

Why are Americans cheating female immigrants by not paying them a fair wage?

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:32:35 +0000

Almost half of employees who complained about work-site conditions or tried to form a union reported experiencing retaliation.
Of workers injured on the job, only 4.3 percent reported filing claims for worker’s compensation over the last three years.
Workers’ legal status, race and sex had a clear impact on whether they were paid the legal rate, and no single demographic was treated as unfairly as female illegal immigrants.
54% of the illegal-immigrant women involved in the study were paid less than the minimum wage.
The employees shortchanged most often were restaurant, garment and car-wash workers, as well as janitors, home health-care workers and security guards. In fact, 60 percent of garment workers get less than the minimum wage, and a staggering 92.5 percent aren’t paid proper overtime.

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/study-says-la-surpasses-nyc-chicago-in-wage-theft-02924.html

POLL/SURVEY: When you look at this photo, what comes to mind :)?

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:36:08 +0000

This is an Associated Press photo from the New York Times:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/03/05/opinion/05rfd-debate/05rfd-debate-custom1.jpg

The caption reads: "Graduates from Jinan University at a job fair in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, 2009."

Moving to Michigan…I have questions, can you help?

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:36:04 +0000

MY QUESTION IS:
Is there anywhere in Michigan that is not urban Sprawl? Where is a good place for me to live?

I get all of that currently from the area surrounding my town. I’m going to be sad to leave, this is going to be rough.

David Brandon Can't Allow the Media To Run Michigan Football …

Lochecillssa — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:25:40 +0000

Michigan is what it is: the greatest college football program of all time. Rodriguez will take it back to the mountaintop—and those that jumped the shark will have no right to jump back over it. Brandon’s top job will be to … He says Michigan State doesn’t recruit such players. Did you question Michigan State when they allowed Glenn Winston back on campus? Fair is fair , Pat. How about when Michigan State recruited Roderick Jenrette, who was twice charged with burglary?

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Ability is Ageless Job Fair | What's Happening in Michigan

partsunker — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:25:39 +0000

Location: Plaza Hotel & Conference Center, 16400 J.L. Hudson Drive in Southfield Description: The Ability is Ageless Job Fair is scheduled for March 24, 2010. The focus of this job fair is on the mature, mid career job seeker forty …

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Bisons Job Fair This Saturday (WGRZ-TV Buffalo)

WepSpellglync — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:25:35 +0000

BUFFALO, NY-It’s almost time to Play Ball! and the Buffalo Bisons are looking for help for the upcoming 2010 baseball season. The team’s annual seasonal job fair is this Saturday. It will be held in the Pettibone’s Grille Restaurant at …

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Educated and Fearing the Future in China – Room for Debate Blog …

forexmarket — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:25:33 +0000

Reuters/China Daily College graduates at a job fair in Wuhan, Hubei Province, in 2009. As China’s economy recovers, employers are competing to hire low-skilled workers, but many of China’s best and brightest, its college graduates, are facing a long stretch of unemployment. In 1999, the government began a push to expand college education — once considered a golden ….. How to Govern New York Effectively. Post-Paterson, how can the mess in Albany be made manageable? …

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Veterans Stand Down and Job Fair 3.8.10 « Job Developers Network

SnoroupinfinO — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:25:32 +0000

The Stand Down today is directed at homeless veterans; it began in 1988 in San Diego as an opportunity for veterans to gather and access assistance. Each year, there are nearly 100 Stand Down events held across the country. …

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