I'm from the heartland, and I will always be a midwestern girl even as the years I've been living in Dallas fly by. These are my daily musings and interests for my family in Ohio, who I see far too little of, and for anyone else who cares what I had for dinner. Feel free to email me at jecgirlie@gmail.com.

You Can't Take the Ohio Out of the Girl

Oh, Detroit.  And Toledo.  And Cleveland.  I hope things get better for my beloved cities in the MidWest.  I hope young people stay and jobs are created and life just gets easier for the people living there.  It is hard to know that members of your own family are struggling in this economy when Dallas seems relatively untouched by comparison.  Sure, our townhome wouldn’t sell, but we have jobs.  And all of my friends have jobs.  We are scared of that changing, but we aren’t living the reality of it.  Other than Matt’s business being based on national employment (therefore not growing) and mine being in a frighteningly lay-off happy industry, we are ok. I heard on the radio that Texas would be the first state to bounce back from the recession, with the job markets in Austin and San Antonio back up to pre-recession numbers by early 2010.  Dallas and Houston job markets are predicted to be back up to pre-recession numbers by 2011.  I can’t remember the source that the radio host quoted, some top economists or something.  I am blessed to live here, by no doing of mine other than the job offer almost 7 years ago.  Now I can’t see myself leaving unless something major happens.  Life seems easier in Texas.  And the sun helps my disposition :) mascarah: [Love: My City & Me] DETROIT (what!) by Lindsey S. My Detroit isn’t just some hook of an Eminem song.It is more than 8 miles long.It rocks and it rolls.It plays Don’t Stop Believin’ at far too many sports games.It has amazing parks and lakes and people. I wish you could meet the people.They are hopeful and strong.They will rebuild, even if with their own 2 hands, and those hands alone.It is home to an auto industry - searching for a renewed relevance, stuck in a junkyard of poor decisions and debt. Where it will find it’s new place in this hybrid world… and if and win and how…we do not know. But we have not given up.There have been jobs lost.There have been homes repossessed.But we are brave. And proud. And strong. And we will never stop believin’…we will hold on to that feeling.….You know, the one that tells us that the city, our city, that we love, will once again be a haven of hope… (that goes on and on and on and on…) Send me your city story.

Oh, Detroit.  And Toledo.  And Cleveland.  I hope things get better for my beloved cities in the MidWest.  I hope young people stay and jobs are created and life just gets easier for the people living there.  It is hard to know that members of your own family are struggling in this economy when Dallas seems relatively untouched by comparison.  Sure, our townhome wouldn’t sell, but we have jobs.  And all of my friends have jobs.  We are scared of that changing, but we aren’t living the reality of it.  Other than Matt’s business being based on national employment (therefore not growing) and mine being in a frighteningly lay-off happy industry, we are ok.

I heard on the radio that Texas would be the first state to bounce back from the recession, with the job markets in Austin and San Antonio back up to pre-recession numbers by early 2010.  Dallas and Houston job markets are predicted to be back up to pre-recession numbers by 2011.  I can’t remember the source that the radio host quoted, some top economists or something.  I am blessed to live here, by no doing of mine other than the job offer almost 7 years ago.  Now I can’t see myself leaving unless something major happens.  Life seems easier in Texas.  And the sun helps my disposition :)

mascarah:

[Love: My City & Me] DETROIT (what!) by Lindsey S.

My Detroit isn’t just some hook of an Eminem song.
It is more than 8 miles long.
It rocks and it rolls.
It plays Don’t Stop Believin’ at far too many sports games.
It has amazing parks and lakes and people. I wish you could meet the people.
They are hopeful and strong.
They will rebuild, even if with their own 2 hands, and those hands alone.
It is home to an auto industry - searching for a renewed relevance, stuck in a junkyard of poor decisions and debt.
Where it will find it’s new place in this hybrid world… and if and win and how…we do not know.
But we have not given up.
There have been jobs lost.
There have been homes repossessed.
But we are brave. And proud. And strong.
And we will never stop believin’…we will hold on to that feeling.
….You know, the one that tells us that the city, our city, that we love, will once again be a haven of hope… (that goes on and on and on and on…)

Send me your city story.

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September 23, 2009
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