$2M Michigan lottery winner defends use of food stamps

TinCanSailor said:
It's nice to read about how many Trolls - "Below the bridge" are on this site. :wave:

I had Yooper "above the bridge" relatives who lived in Newberry.
My dad was born in Pinconning. Mom in Lansing.

A couple of years ago I visited the area and saw many small towns with half of the businesses/homes boarded up.

In Lansing, the Fisher Body, Oldsmobile, Motor Wheel plants are now vast areas of concrete. The buildings are all gone. All the supporting business's moved away. A third of the schools closed.

The home next to my sister's in Lansing: A nice ranch with full liveable basement and 2-car detached garage recently sold for $23,000. Before the crash it was worth over $100,000. :(
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Yup. Truly amazing, and not in a good way, what property values are doing in Michigan, generally.

I've got Troll and Yooper blood in me, both. Know the Keewanau pretty well, since that's where my dad was from. When I was little, as soon as we crossed the straits - by ferry in those days -he'd take a deep breath of that pine-scented air and declare we were now in God's own country.
 
Beach girl said:
Yup. Truly amazing, and not in a good way, what property values are doing in Michigan, generally.

I've got Troll and Yooper blood in me, both. Know the Keewanau pretty well, since that's where my dad was from. When I was little, as soon as we crossed the straits - by ferry in those days -he'd take a deep breath of that pine-scented air and declare we were now in God's own country.
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That reminded me, in 1986 I was in a shipyard in Sturgeon Bay, WI. Lived up there for 16 months. I decided one day to drive through the U.P. and down to Lansing instead of down through Chicago.

It was spectacular! All that water, trees and winding roads. AND very little civilization. I was actually afraid I might run out of gas before the next station. My first ride over the Mac was in 1963. It was still breathtaking in 1986.
 
The U.P. is something like 80 or 90 percent national forest. The Lake Superior shoreline is so outstandingly gorgeous up there.

Also the only state in the Union where you can go to Paradise and Hell in the same day. :lol:
 
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