Mt. Clemens: What's the deal?

[Shollin]

Thin and attractive people are only located in "walkable" areas? I was unaware thin people ate at Buffalo Wild Wings. If Hall road gives people the creeps, it's because they are unable to transverse a parking lot and become disoriented when there are no sidewalks. They find the selection of stores maddening and get confused when one store carries multiple items at low prices. They ask how can one store have so much merchandise? How can it be so cheap? Why do people have shopping carts with all there wares? Where are the niche yuppy stores and fake ethnic resturaunts? Literally and metaphorically, these urbanites get lost.

[Detroitnerd]

Thin and attractive people are only located in "walkable" areas? I was unaware thin people ate at Buffalo Wild Wings. If Hall road gives people the creeps, it's because they are unable to transverse a parking lot and become disoriented when there are no sidewalks. They find the selection of stores maddening and get confused when one store carries multiple items at low prices. They ask how can one store have so much merchandise? How can it be so cheap? Why do people have shopping carts with all there wares? Wear are the niche yuppy stores and fake ethnic resturaunts? Literally and metaphorically, these urbanites get lost.

Yes, Shollin. That's what the piece originally said. I just reversed it for the purposes of amusement. It is, as you may have detected, originally a rant against urbanites from Joel Garreau's 1985 book, "Edge City."

http://books.google.com/books?id=_h4...ity%22&f=false

It just goes to show that exurbia's greatest champions have always gone to great lengths to tease urbanites while extolling car culture. What a pity they must feel so threatened by it and simply can't see it as just another component of a region.