Michigander
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Arizona offers endless beauty, and your choice of weather.
Want skiing? Even the UP doesn't even begin to compare to the southwest.
Want skiing? Even the UP doesn't even begin to compare to the southwest.
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First OC. Panic attack.
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MikeTheGreek
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griffin
Regular Member
Griffin, are those all in Arizona, or are you trying to say you hate snow?
I hate cold weather and snow!
MikeTheGreek
Regular Member
I hate cold weather and snow!
I'd say Michigan is a bad place for you.I live around Detroit, because I'm from Windsor, Ontario, which is just over the bridge.
So..this part of Michigan feels perfectly like home (Except the beer isn't as strong and there's more guns)
TheQ
Regular Member
I hate cold weather and snow!
Free advice: move
griffin
Regular Member
I've got some free advice for you! :cuss:
Nice use of pics Griff.
You must not have lived here for long. Hell does freeze over occasionally. The worst was when me and mine were living in Idaho with no snow and relatives in Mesa sent pictures of the snowman they made IN MESA!
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DrTodd
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Yeah, so much more professional... lol
http://triblive.com/opinion/editori...drivers-littering-officers-pass#axzz2CiEmVeXd
DrTodd
Michigan Moderator
I live around Detroit, because I'm from Windsor, Ontario, which is just over the bridge.
So..this part of Michigan feels perfectly like home (Except the beer isn't as strong and there's more guns)
If you are happy with the snowfall the Detroit area has, don't even think about coming closer to Lake Michigan lol
Notice no one was arrested for guns though ..... LOL.
I wonder if anyone actually said no and was still searched. Usually when a cop says I'm going to search your vehicle people fail to answer correctly.
They've always used the line "We're gonna search your vehicle" and most people aren't aware enough to say no. I've always answered "no you're not" and that was the end of it. Granted it's been at least decade since someone wanted to search me.
P.S. Mikethegreek, my best advice to you is don't forget about your gun when you go to pee. It's really embarrassing to unbuckle and have your pants and gun hit the floor. I made that mistake once when I was new to carrying.
FreeInAZ
Regular Member
Never said ALL LEO's were professional here. The ones I have talked with seem to value constitutional rights more than the LEO's from SE MI, but again, that's a pretty low bar...
But then again, I am sure you run into your share of "professionals" on the mean, mean, streets of Hudsonville... Never know when the bloods & crypts are going to have a turf war over an egg factory.
ETA - the linked story took place in the TUCSON area and involved conservation officers (DNR). Whenever you see TUCSON just substitute it with Warren, Birmingham, Lansing etc.. same bad leaders just in the SouthWest.
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FreeInAZ
Regular Member
You must not have lived here for long. Hell does freeze over occasionally. The worst was when me and mine were living in Idaho with no snow and relatives in Mesa sent pictures of the snowman they made IN MESA!
I thought that was 2 years ago? If so, yep you're right ,I have not lived here (AZ) that long.
Glad I missed it too. If I never see another snow flake again, that's fine by me. :monkey I have always said: if it snowed white sand and we all drove dune buggies in 70 degree plus weather, then I would be happy as all get out to be in MI during the winters.
carsontech
Activist Member
P.S. Mikethegreek, my best advice to you is don't forget about your gun when you go to pee. It's really embarrassing to unbuckle and have your pants and gun hit the floor. I made that mistake once when I was new to carrying.
You sit down when you pee, too, eh? :uhoh:
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You sit down when you pee, too, eh? :uhoh:
Huh? I was standing and the weight of the gun took my pants to the floor as soon as I undid my belt. With a loud thud, but not a bang.
Now I just unzip.
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Big Gay Al
Michigan Moderator
Yeah, I love Canadian beer. Not to be confused with the stuff they sell on this side of the border that's been watered down for US consumption.
I live around Detroit, because I'm from Windsor, Ontario, which is just over the bridge.
So..this part of Michigan feels perfectly like home (Except the beer isn't as strong and there's more guns)
To quote Monty Python, "We find American beer is like making love in a canoe." "Love in a canoe?" "It's effing close to water."
DrTodd
Michigan Moderator
Maybe true 15-20 years ago, now... not so much. To act as if all Canadian BEvERages are the same is silly, as silly as thinking all US BEvERages are the same. (Black Label, anyone?) Yes, I've spent much time in most of the BEvERage meccas and to state that one is a good example of all... just ain't so...
But what I do detest is Canadian gun law. Their laws were a deal breaker when I was considering a property in northern Ontario to have a a little hideaway. Liked everything about the deal but the fact that my Glock, in it's present configuration, was prohibited. The worst part... people there seemed to agree. On and on how safe it was...yet their actual crime rate for the area I was considering was higher than inner-city GR.
No pistol.... rriigghhtt!
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griffin
Regular Member
This data is a couple of years old, but the U.S. has a violent crime rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, Canada 935.
U.S. - 466
Can - 935
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ry-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html
Big Gay Al
Michigan Moderator
Yeah, well, it's been almost 15 years since I've been to Canada.
I had considered moving there at one time. Even had some decent job offers. But, then I found out about there gun laws. And that was the deal breaker for me. Even though I lived in Illinois at the time, Canada's laws were (are) worse. It's too bad in a way. I found it to be really beautiful up there.MikeTheGreek
Regular Member
Yeah, well, it's been almost 15 years since I've been to Canada.
Haha. Ooohh yeah!
The only ranges require memberships, which are about 200$ a year. But most have 24/7 ranges that give you a private keycard for unlimited access.
Now..the bad stuff. Lordy lord.
Everything has to be registered. Everything has to be unloaded, locked in a safe, with the ammunition in a different room.
The police may come into your home, any time of the day, and check your safe to make sure all of your registered firearms are present, unloaded, and secured.
You may not keep a loaded gun in your home, and you can NEVER carry a firearm, unless you get a carry permit. The only carry permits are issued to people who can prove that their life is in such great a danger, where the police can not protect them, and that permit is only for a very short period of time.
Needless to say..Canadian gun laws are absolute garbage, and it's one of the only reasons I refuse to move back home, no matter how much I loved it, or how much I miss my family.
Never, ever, ever.
Also, firearms are much more expensive since you can not buy them from the USA/Other countries and have them shipped/carried across the border.