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As someone who currently resides in the Southern Flint Burbs/Northern Detroit Exurbs of Southern Genesee County, I am in complete agreement. When people ask me about by general civic boosterism...

Since I have no immediate family that ever lived in Detroit proper, I might as well share the closest thing I have: the story of my mother's family's story of migration through Flint and the suburbs...

I almost forgot about that. In line with the "anti-stereotype", my grandfather does in fact have a few old guns he occasionally breaks out for hunting [[usually deer).

Believe me, they exist. Case in point, my grandfather, a proud, and rather liberal, card-carrying, straight-ticket, democrat [[a man who has acted as such for the last 60 or so years, and has...

If you are looking for old images of buildings in Metro Detroit, the Manning Brothers collection may be able to help.

Manning Bros. used to take assessor's pics for much of metro Detroit. The...

I would imagine that they will probably either try to stick it out in the city [[and put their kids through either parochial/private schools, or get them districted to "higher performing" DPS schools...

Is the Conant Gardens neighborhood on the list?

Grandmont-Rosedale is fairly appropriate for that area, seeing as the CDC for that area uses that name for that general area.

Don't forget Better Made Meadows and Goebel Woods :p

Also, if my beloved Flint can be included, I'd be tempted to throw Paramount Park, Koegel Haven, and Salay Gardens into the ring as well :cool:

That makes sense. Carrabba's locations can has a similar aesthetic; Olive Garden just happens to be a little more familiar to me because I know of a few OG's that have that general appearance, while...

Lowell, I think the "Mexican Restaurant" you speak of was more than likely an Olive Garden at some point. Many of them have/had this "stone walls and a tile roof" faux-Mediterranean architecture to...