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 Liberal Place: Ann Arbor, MI
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 Ann Arbor, Michigan is a liberal-friendly place. It has many
rather unusual laws such as a city domestic partnership
ordinance (and the University of Michigan recognizes it for
health insurance purposes) and only a $5.00 fine for smoking
marijuana in public. It sports an annual "Hash Bash" where
people come from miles around to do just that (and on the
university campus, no less), and is known far and wide as
"24.6 square miles, surrounded by reality".
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Ann Arbor pretends to be liberal, but has been taken over by big
money. The housing market alone prices out anybody making less
than $250,000/year unless you're a grey hippie who bought in before
the 80's. A recent conservative sweep in city council has begun
to turn back the tide of liberalism as an influx of hitech execs
move their kids into the school system and their mansions onto
farmland. The old hippies are dying out and the young folks are
moving to Seattle. Another 10 years and Ann Arbor will look like
any other walled-off suburban republican bastion of xenophobia,
homophobia, and racism in Amerika.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan is a liberal city. The motivation of many to live
within the city limits has pushed real estate prices high and changed
the political mix of the city. Ann Arbor is not a safe haven for those
seeking a homogeneous politcal environment--it engages in the most
healthy public political discourse since Plato's Republic. The
fundemental principles of liberty and free speech among all citizens
makes it impossible for Ann Arbor to ever be accused of conservatism.
The most 'liberial' of cities are also sometimes the most closed cities.
Only in Ann Arbor, can two wealthy, hi-tech business men walk down the
street holding hands. You don't have to be poor to be liberal. When
visiting Ann Arbor, open your mind-you may learn something about
yourself.
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