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The Mackinac Bridge and U.P. is my happy place.
I don't remember the last time I was here but I think it was in 2014 or 2015. Looks like the place has changed.
So I met someone who really seemed promising and had her junk together and after a year we got a house, since neither of us qualified for anything worthwhile in this area. I sold the one I had for over 17 years. At least I was finally out of the HOA and the new place is everything I wanted. Acreage, pole barn, basement, generator, strategically placed trees and eaves, very well constructed for 1985.
But turns out she's no better than anyone else. She's hostile, controlling, and a compulsive hoarder. I get one little corner in the unheated basement for my guitars and computer, and I've been sleeping on the couch for 4 months never to change. She packed the house full and little has moved from where she plopped it down, spider webs all over, new carpet is trashed, piles keep growing, really sad. I tried keeping a guitar upstairs but she would just pile things everyday so I couldn't get to it. She's also brainwashed my daughter into her way of thinking all dads are bad people including me. I'd like her to leave but I'm afraid of the false repercussions with her feminist connections. I've learned that it doesn't matter how many cops or lawyers you have, you can't actually make anybody do anything. All you can do is leave if you don't like it.
Well I've got a year and 2 months till my daughter graduates high school. Then I can legally leave this area and that day can't come fast enough. I'm seriously done here. Been thinking about it for a long time. I really hate it here. Have for a long time but I've been shackled by the court since 2003. The only thing I like is the lakes and peaceful places up north, but in person it's not even worth the hassle. I don't boat or swim. The lakeshores have gotten so slimy and mucky that it's just gross anymore. I'd rather watch footage on TV set to lite music, seriously. It's not worth the low paying seasonal jobs, the lack of affordable housing, the junk roads, dealing with the rude tourists most of the year (and having to treat them as royalty and you as a peasant), the constant dreary lake-effect weather, the explosion of micro breweries and wineries and the drunk drivers that come with it. Even my job has reinstated cigarette smoking in the building, despite Michigan laws. Which is the last straw for me. 20 years as an engineer and finally making 40k for the first time in my life, I'd hope I make at least that somewhere else but if I don't then I can live in a van down by the river, it'll just be me.
Just like the old house, can't get cable internet at the new house. Despite being on the busiest county road in the county. Another reason things must be better elsewhere. I'm on the same dialup connection I've been on since 1997. It's a good thing this forum runs with it, or I wouldn't be able to come back.
Sorry didn't mean to come back with bad news. Just took my daughter over to my dads before I have to drive her back tomorrow 350 miles. He kept pushing me to stay, and I almost did. But imagine that, it's the stupid cigarette smoking that dominates this area. I wasn't going to put up with his smoking, it was making me sick. I've told him that countless times, but again it's his house, it's up to me to leave. So I did. And when I take my daughter back, more smoke as her mom does. Every factory, gas station, store, restaurant, even medical clinic, doesn't matter. They're all standing out smoking. Want to play music? It's practically a requirement. You're an outcast if you don't smoke. If it's not everything else, this especially makes me feel like my place here has been eliminated. I came back to the hoard tonight for clean air, because it is at least smoke free.
Anyway that's my story. Don't need a reply. Don't know when I'll be back. Good night.
So I met someone who really seemed promising and had her junk together and after a year we got a house, since neither of us qualified for anything worthwhile in this area. I sold the one I had for over 17 years. At least I was finally out of the HOA and the new place is everything I wanted. Acreage, pole barn, basement, generator, strategically placed trees and eaves, very well constructed for 1985.
But turns out she's no better than anyone else. She's hostile, controlling, and a compulsive hoarder. I get one little corner in the unheated basement for my guitars and computer, and I've been sleeping on the couch for 4 months never to change. She packed the house full and little has moved from where she plopped it down, spider webs all over, new carpet is trashed, piles keep growing, really sad. I tried keeping a guitar upstairs but she would just pile things everyday so I couldn't get to it. She's also brainwashed my daughter into her way of thinking all dads are bad people including me. I'd like her to leave but I'm afraid of the false repercussions with her feminist connections. I've learned that it doesn't matter how many cops or lawyers you have, you can't actually make anybody do anything. All you can do is leave if you don't like it.
Well I've got a year and 2 months till my daughter graduates high school. Then I can legally leave this area and that day can't come fast enough. I'm seriously done here. Been thinking about it for a long time. I really hate it here. Have for a long time but I've been shackled by the court since 2003. The only thing I like is the lakes and peaceful places up north, but in person it's not even worth the hassle. I don't boat or swim. The lakeshores have gotten so slimy and mucky that it's just gross anymore. I'd rather watch footage on TV set to lite music, seriously. It's not worth the low paying seasonal jobs, the lack of affordable housing, the junk roads, dealing with the rude tourists most of the year (and having to treat them as royalty and you as a peasant), the constant dreary lake-effect weather, the explosion of micro breweries and wineries and the drunk drivers that come with it. Even my job has reinstated cigarette smoking in the building, despite Michigan laws. Which is the last straw for me. 20 years as an engineer and finally making 40k for the first time in my life, I'd hope I make at least that somewhere else but if I don't then I can live in a van down by the river, it'll just be me.
Just like the old house, can't get cable internet at the new house. Despite being on the busiest county road in the county. Another reason things must be better elsewhere. I'm on the same dialup connection I've been on since 1997. It's a good thing this forum runs with it, or I wouldn't be able to come back.
Sorry didn't mean to come back with bad news. Just took my daughter over to my dads before I have to drive her back tomorrow 350 miles. He kept pushing me to stay, and I almost did. But imagine that, it's the stupid cigarette smoking that dominates this area. I wasn't going to put up with his smoking, it was making me sick. I've told him that countless times, but again it's his house, it's up to me to leave. So I did. And when I take my daughter back, more smoke as her mom does. Every factory, gas station, store, restaurant, even medical clinic, doesn't matter. They're all standing out smoking. Want to play music? It's practically a requirement. You're an outcast if you don't smoke. If it's not everything else, this especially makes me feel like my place here has been eliminated. I came back to the hoard tonight for clean air, because it is at least smoke free.
Anyway that's my story. Don't need a reply. Don't know when I'll be back. Good night.
