Desperate people
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11/11/2006
After growing up around the area, I left to finish my graduate degree. After returing due to family still in the area, I was shocked to see the tragic downturn the city has taken. City government has done a wonderful job of quitely exerbing young adults. It is almost if the city hates young people. There is no place for a 20 something, and you are frowned upon at interviews, and when applying for home loans, no matter your credentials.It is made sure you are qualified for a house where "other" young homeowners are. There is a glass ceiling for young adults, and it gets lower every year. The h.s. district in which i lived continously bans a millage that would improve the quality of education, keeping kids in a horribly disadvantaged situation, which hits them when they appear in the real world. There is no oppourtunities, clubs, organizations, or anything that would interest a young person to stay after High School, if they finish.Alot of the bright students I knew who couldn't afford to go to college are alhcoholics fighting to find a job. A bar at every turn, a liqour store to follow, and only the elderly who had previously held a good life decades ago while Jackson held any manufacturing sway; are the few with livable amount of money. This city likes being dirty, with so many figures of un-employment ranging from 7 to 9 percent, this must be taken into account the city only has 28K residents. If you work, your a minorty. Its sad to down the city I was born in, but these people are truly desperate, continuing to have children in who which will never know a decent life. Three organizations in the area offer stable employment that pays above 6 an hour. But you must be a nurse, or know someone inside consumers energy, or work for the state. The most frustrating thing about this city, is the attitude of the older generation who laugh and look down on young adults squandering over wages that cannot pay for gas. I must commute to Ann arbor to find work, and soon will be leaving the state. If you have travled around the state, you will instantly notice the hard times had by most all, it is very visible. It will be sad for my wife and I to leave our relatives here, but this place has little to offer to anyone.
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