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Offline thundley4

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Detroit: Expensive to leave?
« on: April 05, 2009, 06:20:42 AM »


I thought that maybe this was a joke, so I went to Uhaul and ran it through.
Detroit to Dallas.
Dallas to Detroit


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Re: Detroit: Expensive to leave?
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2009, 06:48:58 AM »
It's all about demand, I suppose.  Well, that and not wanting to deadhead trucks back to Motown.
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Re: Detroit: Expensive to leave?
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2009, 08:05:29 AM »
It's not just there:

Redondo Beach, CA (LA area) to Dallas, TX (26' truck)--$1551.00
Dallas to Redondo Beach--$760.00

The difference used to be even worse.

And if I wanted to rent that same truck to move from where I used to live in CA to here, it would be nearly $4000.  To go the other way, about $2200.
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Re: Detroit: Expensive to leave?
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2009, 08:51:04 AM »
It's ironic.

Unions were started when ordinary people were being abused by exploitative owners such as those among the Tennessee coal mining operations. They paid a ho-hum wage but then the company-owned stores and charged workers for food etc that actually cost more than the wages leading to a form of indentured servitude...except the worker never knew the terms up front.

Now we have Detriot: a curdling pile of urban blight with soaring crime and crushing taxes...and the union workers find it too expensive to escape. It seems as soon as unions snatched the worker's leash from the old master's hand they looked down and said, "Hey, I'm holding  leash. Hm-m-m...I wonder what I can do with this?"
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Re: Detroit: Expensive to leave?
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2009, 10:12:57 AM »
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on April 05, 2009, 08:51:04 AM
It's ironic.

Unions were started when ordinary people were being abused by exploitative owners such as those among the Tennessee coal mining operations. They paid a ho-hum wage but then the company-owned stores and charged workers for food etc that actually cost more than the wages leading to a form of indentured servitude...except the worker never knew the terms up front.

Now we have Detriot: a curdling pile of urban blight with soaring crime and crushing taxes...and the union workers find it too expensive to escape. It seems as soon as unions snatched the worker's leash from the old master's hand they looked down and said, "Hey, I'm holding  leash. Hm-m-m...I wonder what I can do with this?"
Tug hard and blame it on eviiiiiiiiiil conservatives???
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Re: Detroit: Expensive to leave?
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2009, 10:15:06 AM »
When are flights to the US going to be cheaper than flights from the US?  I'm just waiting on 0Bama to institute policies to keep people and their money here.
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Re: Detroit: Expensive to leave?
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2009, 10:26:27 AM »
As a counter point. There is a toll on the bridges into San Francisco, but it is free to leave.
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Re: Detroit: Expensive to leave?
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2009, 01:45:23 PM »
Quote from: Ranger Rick on April 05, 2009, 10:26:27 AM
As a counter point. There is a toll on the bridges into San Francisco, but it is free to leave.

It's the same in NYC, the idea is it's supposed to discourage people from driving in.  Like what they charge for a day's parking there isn't discouragement enough.
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