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But next week, I saw two days that will hit 60.......
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Mind over matter and all that happy horse sh*t. lol
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I just noticed you were in Calgary. Years ago, when we were in Perrault Falls, Ontario for a hunt, we had a lot of rural roads. So maybe, if I had snow and rural road conditions, snow tires would be the sensible thing to do even for an AWD car. We are more urban and we don't drive rural roads unless it is in the summer on a trike so maybe that is the difference where AWD or even 4WD is sufficient?
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If you don't drive a lot of rural roads and you have about the same snow level as the Milwaukee area then I don't know. Like I said, around here, I don't feel it is necessary with my F250 or the Cayenne but maybe the way you get the snow or the total amount might make it necessary.
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Metro? I was surprised to learn that Metro Detroit with 5.5+ Million people (when you count greater Windsor which while in Canada is effectively somewhere between a suburb and a twin city) was actually one of the larger areas in the US (I think we are 13th). Basically if you commute to Detroit or an inner ring suburb from somewhere then you're part of Metro. So many Ford people who commute to Dearborn live near Ann Arbor (which tries to say it's not in the Metro area, it is, we've subsumed it).
Anyway, long winded way of saying 1.6 Million might be rural, don't know. What is the line?
Anyway, long winded way of saying 1.6 Million might be rural, don't know. What is the line?
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Metro? I was surprised to learn that Metro Detroit with 5.5+ Million people (when you count greater Windsor which while in Canada is effectively somewhere between a suburb and a twin city) was actually one of the larger areas in the US (I think we are 13th). Basically if you commute to Detroit or an inner ring suburb from somewhere then you're part of Metro. So many Ford people who commute to Dearborn live near Ann Arbor (which tries to say it's not in the Metro area, it is, we've subsumed it).
Anyway, long winded way of saying 1.6 Million might be rural, don't know. What is the line?
Anyway, long winded way of saying 1.6 Million might be rural, don't know. What is the line?
And on the weather note, it's the best winter we've ever had here that I can ever recall. I've used my snow blower once, and tomorrow it is going to be 60F.
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Metro? I was surprised to learn that Metro Detroit with 5.5+ Million people (when you count greater Windsor which while in Canada is effectively somewhere between a suburb and a twin city) was actually one of the larger areas in the US (I think we are 13th). Basically if you commute to Detroit or an inner ring suburb from somewhere then you're part of Metro. So many Ford people who commute to Dearborn live near Ann Arbor (which tries to say it's not in the Metro area, it is, we've subsumed it).
Anyway, long winded way of saying 1.6 Million might be rural, don't know. What is the line?
Anyway, long winded way of saying 1.6 Million might be rural, don't know. What is the line?
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Sort of tongue in cheek, but to a person from Mexico City or New York City 2 million, might be rural. To me it's a contiguous place of less than 200k. Saginaw, Bay City, Flint, Kalamazoo, even Lansing to me are all ruralesque. The only other "city area" in Michigan outside of Metro Detroit is Grand Rapids and its suburbs.