Originally Posted by barbara (Post 166020)

Don't know about the others, but I just don't have much to say. :)


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Originally Posted by Charles (Post 166021)

Let's talk about your IPhone.

Hopefully no one will get a case of the ass discussing that.

Chas

Originally Posted by d-ray657 (Post 166022)

Just working later nowadays. Glad to see you being a frequent poster again, Chas - even if I do occasionally conclude that you are full of it. :cool:

Regards,

D-Ray

Originally Posted by d-ray657 (Post 166023)

You talking about that device made with slave labor? To me it represents a consumer economy gone mad (no offense Barbara;))

Regards,

D-Ray

Originally Posted by Charles (Post 166019)

I've got the whole forum to myself during prime time.

Does this mean that we're all so pissed off at one another than no one has the gumption to respond?

Chas

Originally Posted by bobabode (Post 166026)

I'll be your huckleberry:D.

Originally Posted by Charles (Post 166029)

I knew I could count on you!!!

No offense, but when are you Californication liberals gonna realize the sun doesn't rise from the West???

And that's as nasty as I care to be.

Hell, that's even nastier than I care to be.

Chas

Originally Posted by BlueStreak (Post 166037)

I've just returned from a trip to lovely Warren, Ohio. Hmmm.........

Suburbs of the Youngstown/Warren Metropolitan area seem to be shining up a bit. Actual growth and new businesses and stuff like that. I was surprised at Niles, it's actually looking like a nice place to live, once again.

The cities themselves? Not so much. The west end of Warren is shockingly run down, all sorts of boarded up businesses and abandoned, delapidated homes. Tod Avenue at night is a friggin' zoo. Hookers and drug dealers operating right out in the open. The feds swept through Warren back in April/May and arrested dozens of people in a narcotics sting. Dealers, suppliers, traffickers.......their faces filled an entire page in Sundays paper. Everything from small time marijuana & crack dealers to two women who were charged with wholesale distribution of heroin. Supposedly, the two are major league and face 20 years in prison.

The Warren ploice department is broke and down to 2 officers on patrol for each shift. Not good for a city with ~40,000 residents.

My hometown, Newton Falls, has scarcely changed for better or worse in the last 20-30 years.

Dave

Originally Posted by bobabode (Post 166041)

Welcome home, Dave. Fire up that 9300 Maggie and spin up or reel up some tunes, man. Glad to hear that Ohio hasn't completely gone to the dogs.

Originally Posted by BlueStreak (Post 166042)

Actually, on average the area looks a bit better than it has in decades. The contrast between the bad and better areas is far more pronounced now.

If that makes any sense..........................

Dave

Originally Posted by icenine (Post 166039)

Yeah the small cities have lost the tax base. My neighborhood was the newest in my hometown of Vermilion in the 1960s and 1970s but the streets are so bad now and it looks way run down...because of the loss of the Lorain Ford Assembly plant.

Originally Posted by BlueStreak (Post 166044)

There are a few new manufacturing type employers and quite a bit of service industry bussinesses popping up recently. But the traditional industries continue to decline. Delphi (Packard Electric) is just about totally gone. G.E. is gone after making flourescent lights there since 1911 and RG Steel (Former Republic mill.) is idled. So, right now, it's a mixed bag.

The future could go either way.

I'm hoping it goes up.

Dave