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| FLINTSTONE FOREVER! - 12/25/2009
My name is Michael Green. I used to live in Flint, Michigan. I went to Bunche, Longfellow and Northern! I graduated in 1981 and immediately went into the service (U.S. Navy). I would visit every opportunity I could while in military and would see the city gradually declining. I miss EVERYTHING about Flint. From Roulettes skating rink to Forest Park! Flint will NEVER be the same from the 70's and 80's! From Vanwagner Street, Mason Street, Dayton Street, Saginaw Street, Clio Road, Pasadena Street, Barth Street to Mallery Street, I will ALWAYS claim Flint as my home!!
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| SHAME ON U - 9/28/2009
SHAME ON YOU!!! I am so tired of people like you saying negitive things about a city and people you don't know anything about. Burton ain't nothing but a hole in the wall itself. There are alot of people in Flint care about where they live. It is a shame how people can talk about a city but will drain it dry of it's resources. I bet 30% of the people you know work in Flint. Sucking up all the jobs from the people who live in the city and go home and complain. Get a job where you live if Flint is so bad then we will see your pretty little Main St. homes turn into the slumms and ghetto. That goes for all of you stupid people that just run your mouth about negative issues in a struggling city. People who live in Owosso, Burton, Mt.Morris, Flushing, Clio, Genesse, Fenton,etc. This goes for '''U'''
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| Flint! - 12/28/2008
Well...I am studying to be preservationist. And the situation in Flint right now is simply pathetic! Ughhh...it makes me sick to drive around Flint and see all the history of this once great town decaying and evaporating like water as quick as you can say "stupid" Most prople just don't care! Our whole city is going down the drain with GM and Ford, and well, the mayor is helping any!They act like they are trying to fix up all of the decaying buildings in the historic districts that were torn down by ignorant self-centered loonitics! They are so lazy that they can't preserve our great history, because we are so poor! Flint is Discusting and full of lazy people who just don't care! I'm not going to keep quiet about this anymore, because this is a subject of matter that just doesn't need to be kept "shushed" any more!
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| Depressing, Depressing - 11/20/2008
I am originally from around the Flint area. I recently went back for a visit. I have traveled to many, many cities and have never found one as depressing as Flint. Boarded up stores,rude people, high crime and the downtown looks like a horror scene right out of a movie. I am so thankful I moved to Fort Wayne!
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| who cares - 3/7/2008
stay away
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| Flint Michigan - 2/26/2008
Hello
Well, there isn't much to say here------I have lived here all my life while working for General Motors. The town is simply depressing with not much going for it. The overall attitude of the people is depressed it would seem. The only good thing I can think about Flint Michigan is the low cost of housing. However, with the continued downsizing of the auto industry the economy is continually getting worse along with the crime rate since Flint's economy is largely based on General Motors.
Darrol
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| Flint Michigan - 2/26/2008
Hello
Well, there isn't much to say here------I have lived here all my life while working for General Motors. The town is simply depressing with not much going for it. The overall attitude of the people is depressed it would seem. The only good thing I can think about Flint Michigan is the low cost of housing. However, with the continued downsizing of the auto industry the economy is continually getting worse along with the crime rate since Flint's economy is largely based on General Motors.
Darrol
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| Struggling economy - 8/25/2007
There are still great people here, but it's a very tight economy. It's a news anocement when we get 20 new job's. That's very sad.
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| where has the old Flint gone? - 6/25/2007
We lived n Flint for over 50 years and now due to the bad economy and the poor job market we have left. I wish we could still be there but you can't live somewhere that there is no hope of future jobs or growth of the economy. We left Flint 2 years ago and we put our house on the market then and it is still on the market and we lived in one of the neighborhood where the houses never stayed on the market for more that a couple of months, now we are going on 2 years and still no one is interested in our house or any other house in the neigborhood. We try to go back about 2 times each year to see the house and friends we left behind and each time it just seems to get worse. When is the city government and the people of Flint gonig to realise that they need to get the city back on the right track, and that means they need to rely on themselves and not GM!!!! there is more out there in the real world that does not revolve around Generous Motors.
I have some of my best growing up memories in Flint and the surrounding area and it hurt me to see all of that lost in the economic dismay that the current government and people are letting happen there today.
Wake up Flint or you WILL become the next Ghost town.
judy
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| Little luxuries in Vehicle City - 5/1/2007
Although the economy is declining rapidly and only the bad side of Flint is seen on tv shows like CNN and Crimestoppers, Vehicle City does have a few nice things to offer residents and visitors . The Flint Farmers Market on Robert T. Longway is a hidden treasure, as well as the Flint Institute of Arts. There is the Whiting Auditorium and many other art museums and coffee shops in the area. Flint offers dancing on Dort Highway, with the Machine Shop inviting such famous Michigan people as Kid Rock, and many other respected rock musicians with return venues. There is Lakisha Jones, Flint's latest talent from the famed American Idol show, which proves one thing about Flint, we are not lacking in culture, intelligence, and talent. So while CNN is busy slamming the residents of Flint with negative news reports, we continue to breed culture and intelligence in spite of a failing economy. Flint has a lot of positive to offer. It's not Hollywood, but it's where we live, and we do the best with it that we can. Obviously, we have a lot of talent and ingenuity and drive to survive. Adversity creates character,and the residents of Flint have a lot of both. We also have a lot of beautiful lakes to visit. This is something you don't see on the national news.
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| history - 3/12/2007
Flint has an amazing past and so much history is evident in the city. However, there is just no employment and no money here anymore. I was born and raised in the Flint area, and as much as I enjoyed the region and the state, it is just not a good idea to live here. Crime is terrible here, as well. Most of the small surrounding cities are very nice.
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| leaving - 12/29/2006
I am one of the many,many people that are leaving Flint for different states. The economy here is so bad that there are over 10,000 house on the market in genesee county alone, and thats not the foreclosures. Boarded up buildings, garbage everywhere and people who just don't care anymore. Dort Hwy used to be the strip where everything happened. Now building after building is boarded up and for sale and the only thing happening are the prostitites. Night life? Forget it, you take your life into your hands going out. Its very sad because I grew up here and have always loved Flint, but its just getting worse and I can't wait for things to change, I need to make a living now.
I bought a house in Texas and I leave in 2 weeks. Goodbye Flint, I'll miss the way you used to be not the way you are now.
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| Left and won't go back - 7/12/2006
Let's face it folks, Flint is a dying city. There aren't enough people left who truly care nor who could make a difference. I left in 1987 and will not be back. I have family there who tell me all the time of the terrible things they read in the paper. Crime is rampant, drug use it widespread, homelessness abounds. Genesee County is one of the most racially divided areas in the nation. Flint is mostly black and the suburbs mostly white, and the two groups do NOT interacte with each other most of the time.
General Motors has abandoned it's birthplace and has barely looked back over it's shoulder since doing so. The fact is Flint lost 50,000 to 60,000 (that's thousands folks) good paying GM jobs between 1970 and 1990. If that happend in any other city of 200,000 or less, the same thing would happen there. Don't get me wrong, I have fond memories of how Flint used to be. However, I don't see anyone or anything on the horizon that can help this downtrodden place.
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| Depressing city, few bright spots. - 7/2/2006
Despite the energetic grassroots efforts of some neighborhood and cultural groups, the city is dirty, crime-ridden and poor. Many neighborhoods trash-filled, abandoned houses, dead dogs left to rot in empty lots, high drug use and all that goes with it. Downtown with the cobbled streets, Flint River and neat old buildings closes up after business hours - no real nightlife in the city proper. Suburbanites are afraid of Flint (IMHO more a racist view than a realistic one) and only go to the Miller Road big-box shopping corridor. Racist attitudes - in all directions - are terrible. City services are woefully understaffed, personel underpaid and overworked. Public schools aren't good, economy is tanking along with the auto industry and roads and public transportation are pretty pathetic.
What's good? You can buy half-way decent houses for under 15K all day long; some in only marginally nasty neighborhoods. Property tax is extremely low. Some very nice parks and golf courses in the city and pretty county recreation areas. Since people around here don't go out and exercise much (this is a very fat state), parks are often quite empty. Excellent farmers' market. Nice library and cultural center. An hour from Ann Arbor, Detroit, Lansing. Good little airport. There are some very nice pockets of well kept, older homes and neighborhoods, though these in the minority.
I moved here from out of state, by an unfortunate twist of fate landed in Flint. I own my home outright (because it was so cheap) and am saving for the day when I can have a decent chunk of change and get the heck out.
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| Quality? - 6/24/2006
I am sad to say that the city I grew up in is not the city I live in now. The employment rates, crime, and education system have made this one of the saddest places in the country. While I think that everything has its cycle I don't have the time to wait for Flint to come back around, that is why we are moving to another state.
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