OT: Popular Science - Michigan, best place to live 2100 AD
"Looks like we are all moving to Michigan."
Popular Science in a feature that is a bit pessimistic and doomsdayish projects that Michigan will be prime real estate in 2100 AD.
This is due to Michigan not experiencing as much of the disease spread by mosquitoes, severe weather, and forest fires that are expected to increase across the rest of the country.
Although we might not be around by 2100, your kids and grandkids may enjoy any prime real estate that you own!
Will the roads still suck or will all vehicles fly, thus solving a problem that otherwise would have gone on without resolution.
March 11th, 2018 at 10:22 AM ^
Eastern Virginia (Hampton Roads, Eastern Shore) is largely built on swamp. I live in a town that was an island until they started filling it in with roads. When it rains, it floods. Thankfully I bought a house on higher ground (no flood insurance!).
But, for example, Tangier Island is going to soon disappear.
I would move back to the suburbs on the east side of Detroit if it wasn't for:
Virginia's weather spoiling me
Crime
Annoying job situation in Detroit area for my profession.
Looks like I need to consider my kids' futures and move back. Michigan does have some things Virginia doesn't:
Hockey
Cuisine culture (Detroit style pizza, Coney, etc)
Legitimate sports teams
You experienced a lot of crime in suburban Detroit?
March 11th, 2018 at 10:40 AM ^
Great point.
Flint has issues. Let's all flee Michigan!
You may want to think about leaving Virginia also. I mean you've got coal ash pollution in the Clinch River and Adair Run. You've got the Kepone chemical disaster in Hopewell. You've got hurricanes Isabel and Camile. You've got the Pentagon, VA Tech, and Charlottesville tragedies. Floods, the slave trade, the Civil War... How can we move on as a people?
March 11th, 2018 at 11:17 AM ^
With all due respect, I lived in Northern VA and Maryland most of my post-college life and recently moved to Ann Arbor. The infrastructure in Michigan is unlike anything I have ever seen in the US from the perspective of road conditions, miles of unpaved roads and the cost of auto insurance.
The biggest trading partners in the world are US and Canada, the biggest port of entry, Detorit-Windsor, the biggest mean of transport.... Semis. Add in the weather and there you go. The Insurance issues is a different story...
The most expensive auto insurance in the country!
And for some reason, we don't have any emissions testing??? (never heard of it until I lived outside of Michigan and I assumed people were playing around talking about "you gotta take your car to go get tested", my response was, "what like it's got an STD or something???")
Fatal car accidents seem way more prevalent here. I can't figure out why, and it's not because of "young military machismo."
walls you would experience far more casualties of war than the forts built to acceptable standards. Likewise I believe our roads, with conditions that might be suitable for Model A and Ts, with a top speed of 20 to 30 mph, will cause a lot more accidents when you have cars traveling at three times that speed.
March 11th, 2018 at 10:23 PM ^
March 11th, 2018 at 11:54 AM ^
It's too bad that Flint is the only city in Michigan. If only Michiganders had built other cities to live in.
They were going to put in a city east of Lansing, but thought better of it & left it a cesspool.
We will be dominant in football by 2100....that will be years after contact of any kind is forbidden---no pass-pro required. Will need long arms to grab those flags though.
March 11th, 2018 at 12:07 PM ^
We'll be playing Quiddich in the Big House
March 11th, 2018 at 11:17 AM ^
need the Glasgows to marry robust, athletic women and have many children. Let that family tree start to grow, and we will be unstoppable in 2100.
March 11th, 2018 at 12:51 PM ^
from a guy whose avatar is a kid standing in a toilet. I like it...
They'll lead us to the National Calvinball Athletic Association's championship for the 3rd straight year under the tutelage of Jim Harbaugh's brain in a jar.
March 11th, 2018 at 11:05 AM ^
March 11th, 2018 at 11:14 AM ^
We've hung what, 5 banners since 2012 in basketball?
Haven't won anything in football since 2004.
March 11th, 2018 at 12:58 PM ^
Both lost out on a Big Ten title on an agonizing single play (basketball on the missed Jordan Morgan putback, football on the 4th and 1 measurement). But the basketball team got a mulligan in the NCAA tournament. The football team was every bit as good, but its season was effectively over.
March 11th, 2018 at 10:01 AM ^
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We have a lot of it and will continue fighting off other states trying to steal it!
March 11th, 2018 at 10:52 AM ^
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March 11th, 2018 at 11:15 AM ^
Honestly, I find the doomsaying eye-rolling, but am intrigued by your methods.
while its still fairly lit/smoking. back to the log (and the wind) and let it blow over you. keeps the bugs away and will stay that way when you put the fire out. have done this in many wilderness areas, in canada and a number of states. will work.
March 11th, 2018 at 10:55 AM ^
March 11th, 2018 at 12:08 PM ^
2100? How about now? I'd rather be in northwest Michigan than anywhere else in the world
March 11th, 2018 at 12:15 PM ^
March 11th, 2018 at 12:32 PM ^
I once met a guy from Arizona miffed that Michigan and the other Great Lakes States block building a water pipeline to the arid southwest states, because now it is hard for him to water and keep his grass green and he had just gotten find for wasting water doing it.
I asked him, why he expected to live in a desert with lush green grass and then take our water to accomplish it, which could have severe ecological effects on us with lower water levels. His answer was, because it is selfish not to share. Okay...
They should be spending every dollar they have figuring that out.
March 11th, 2018 at 12:26 PM ^
I live in Kansas and can definitely see Somewhere Else being the best place to live, geographically speaking. The people here are great, but everything else? Not so much. That said, I don't know about the blanket statement that the whole state of Michigan will be paradise in 2100. Will East Lansing be obliterated by then?