  Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 1714 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 67.149.62.7 |
I love the fact that Detroit is right next to Canada. Having the ability to watch CBC and some of their newscasts is so refreshing (especially now with the Olympic coverage). I'm sure there are other advantages of living here as well besides the obvious ones exploited during Super Bowl (lower drinking age, totally nekkid dancers, Cuban cigars, etc.). | ||
Steelworker Member Username: Steelworker Post Number: 564 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 68.250.2.39 |
the ability to "try" to find canadian women to marry me for canadian citizenship. 4 hour drive to toronto is a plus. Also seeing how our better half lives. | ||
Arab_guyumich Member Username: Arab_guyumich Post Number: 743 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 69.14.179.212 |
Exotic fast food offerings. The word "eh". I was going to mention the nekkid strippers as well...so I'm forced to dig deeper and mention "happy endings" (Message edited by Arab_guyumich on February 12, 2006) | ||
Dove7 Member Username: Dove7 Post Number: 1965 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 24.5.195.127 |
very diverse city windsor is. it's like living here in the bay area. | ||
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan Post Number: 3174 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.172.95.197 |
I think of a lot of things when Windsor is said, diversity ranks pretty far down the list. It's about as diverse as Detroit, and that's not saying much. lol | ||
Ltorivia485 Member Username: Ltorivia485 Post Number: 2328 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 199.74.87.131 |
LOL @ LMichigan. If only we could be cosmopolitan like Toronto or Chicago. | ||
Ltorivia485 Member Username: Ltorivia485 Post Number: 2329 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 199.74.87.131 |
Steelworker, I think it's more like Canadian men trying to marry American women so that they can gain American citizenship quicker. lol | ||
Steelworker Member Username: Steelworker Post Number: 565 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 68.250.2.39 |
yeah but im odd i want to marry a canadian women he he he. | ||
Old_southwest Member Username: Old_southwest Post Number: 113 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 67.149.72.160 |
Cheap beer, liquor, and tobacco can be had for just a short trip across the border. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 35 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42 |
Yeah! But you gotta pay the toll both ways. Best if you bring lots of riders along. | ||
Sharmaal Member Username: Sharmaal Post Number: 704 Registered: 09-2004 Posted From: 69.14.76.187 |
The Beer Store. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2262 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.211.50 |
Sometimes the greatest blessings are the least obvious - we are friends and at peace for 191 years [other than an vigilante incursion into Winsdor by a bunch of American drunks in 1837]. Think of Berlin during the wall, Nicosia in Cyprus today, Sarajevo in the recent Balkan war and we can see how blessed we are. Instead of death and hostilities we are neighbors trading in fun and laughter. I hope the day comes soon when our border can become like those of the even former enemies of Europe are now, open to free movement with no impositions by border guards. | ||
Hardhat Member Username: Hardhat Post Number: 94 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.209.133.64 |
Hockey Night in Canada! | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 266 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 207.200.116.139 |
Slab of ribs at Tunnel BBQ. | ||
Steelworker Member Username: Steelworker Post Number: 572 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 68.250.2.39 |
Honestly what are good bars in windsor? Exclude all the bars that are flooded with 19yo. I wouldnt mind a nice trip to windsor with maybe little more mature crowd(mid to late20's or early 30'2). I wouldnt mind a places thats flooded with canadian women so I can try to get my canadian citizenship. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 1720 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 67.149.62.7 |
The most authentic Chinese food in the area is also over in Windsor as well as some great tasting Vietnamese food. | ||
Tigers2005 Member Username: Tigers2005 Post Number: 87 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 68.61.252.136 |
I'm almost close enough to look across the river and see women sunbathing topless in summer. I know that they're out there. | ||
Cris Member Username: Cris Post Number: 357 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 71.227.26.44 |
Tax-free gambling winnings. Or, on the other hand, dollars that are worth less than ours so that when you lose you can pretend it wasn't that bad. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 1721 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 67.149.62.7 |
I still want to know why our Canadian neighbors are savvy enough to accept US money (at a great discount of course) and most of our downtown (presumably the closest to Canada) businesses scoff at the idea of taking Canadian money? Sure it's a slight pain in the butt to do the math, but the Detroit business owners still have to take the money to the bank for depositing. Shouldn't they turn the Canuck bucks there in the exchange & earn a little extra like our neighbors do? Just an observation. | ||
Canuckr Member Username: Canuckr Post Number: 15 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 71.67.157.248 |
"Honestly what are good bars in windsor?" Phog lounge is a great place to see local Canadian bands. Its a smaller bar and the good thing about it other then music is it's moslty filled up with locals.. Its on University, just off Quellette downtown. Being able to watch CBC, Hockey Night in Canada (Don Cherry),and good beer. Most important, its nice having your home country only a short drive away.. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 1723 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 67.149.62.7 |
Don Cherry on certain nights can be a bad thing too. | ||
Steelworker Member Username: Steelworker Post Number: 573 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 68.250.2.39 |
hummm Phog lounge was it named something else? | ||
Blitz Member Username: Blitz Post Number: 134 Registered: 09-2004 Posted From: 72.139.187.142 |
About Windsor and diversity, it's been called the 4th most diverse city in Canada. It's a hard thing to measure though; I think they use percent of the population that's foreign-born. Anyway, I live in London now which has to be one of the whitest cities around. At least in Windsor, there are ethnic districts in town like Little Italy, Asian, Arabic, etc. | ||
Matt_the_deuce Member Username: Matt_the_deuce Post Number: 491 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.248.252 |
Wah Court - yummy chinese food... | ||
Steelworker Member Username: Steelworker Post Number: 576 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 68.250.2.39 |
ANYTHING going on in windsor tonight????? i know its last minute but i would like to go back for a first time in a long time. remember not teenie bopper kids just maybe local band or local people not americans? | ||
Islandman Member Username: Islandman Post Number: 68 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 68.42.171.59 |
Sunday nights in Windsor were always spent at The Loop (above Coach and Horses). Not a lot of Americans (no 19 year olds), but you have to like disco. The girls certainly seem to. Always had a good time there. Changez used to be good back in the day (off of Wyandotte), but I hear it's trying to make a comeback. Used to play alternative and pop, with some industrial mixed in. For the same flavor, Luna in RO would be its twin. I hear there are a few new bars right on Riverside that are pretty cool, but I haven't been yet. The 2 above I went to pretty much every weekend when I resided on that side of the river. Good times.. | ||
Steelworker Member Username: Steelworker Post Number: 578 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 68.250.2.39 |
I remember going to the loop, decent women but very bad taste in music. funny to see interesting looking women into horrendous music. | ||
Islandman Member Username: Islandman Post Number: 70 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 68.42.171.59 |
I hear ya, I don't think they changed one track that they played on Sunday the whole time I went. It got old..but the scenery made it OK.  | ||
Super_d Member Username: Super_d Post Number: 684 Registered: 08-2005 Posted From: 64.12.116.204 |
'Lmichigan stated,'
'Ltorivia485'stated,
Diversity is overrated. super d(motordetroit) | ||
Detroiternthemist Member Username: Detroiternthemist Post Number: 4 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 68.252.4.166 |
I heard that the "Tunnel BBQ" in Windsor has gone into receivership and will be closing soon. Is this true? | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 1726 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 67.149.62.7 |
Say it ain't so! I miss that BBQ sauce dribbling all over my grubby little paws. | ||
Gianni Member Username: Gianni Post Number: 207 Registered: 05-2004 Posted From: 72.245.36.178 |
Erie Street. | ||
Steelworker Member Username: Steelworker Post Number: 580 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 68.250.2.39 |
island man instead i went to one of windsors finer establishments he he he. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 1728 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 67.149.62.7 |
Uh oh, why do I think Steelworker got an eyeful of Windsor's loveliest- the ones where it's hands off, costs a small fortune and the ladies model nothing but platform shoes?? | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 194 Registered: 09-2005 Posted From: 198.103.184.76 |
Anyone who grew up in Windsor-Essex and has moved away knows that the best thing about being on the Canadian side of a border town is getting to watch American Super Bowl commercials! | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 1752 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.47.101.255 |
And Windsor being quietly getting labelled Sin City didn't exactly hurt its coffers either during Super Bowl weekend. | ||
Dday Member Username: Dday Post Number: 807 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 65.209.165.170 |
CBC during the Olympics. Never know how much you miss it until it's not there | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 1754 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.47.101.255 |
The best thing I love about CBC during the Olympics is that even though they're a Canadian station, they're not just playing Canadian footage of the events! They almost report upon many of the events without much fanfare or nationalism, whereas NBC at times seems to be stuck in this nationalistic pride thing by showing JUST US Olympians. There are wonderfully compelling stories all around these games. Thank goodness for CBC! | ||
Nellonfury Member Username: Nellonfury Post Number: 94 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 68.43.156.135 |
Detroit-Windsor border Rules!!!!!! | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2066 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 130.132.177.245 |
people go to tremendous lengths to get in and out: 17 Arrested in Windsor-Detroit immigrant smuggling ring | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3091 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107 |
Montreal smoked meat with a side of poutine. Then a Donnor kebob. Scones and clotted cream. AIW's tour of Jewish Windsor is pretty good, including shopping at Tepperman's. jjaba, eating his way through Windsor, eh. | ||
Benjamin Member Username: Benjamin Post Number: 131 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 142.46.10.251 |
Not just playing Canadian footage? One of the biggest disapointments of my life, and the last time I watched or plan to watch the Olympics, was during the opening cerimonies of the Athens games. CBC covered the entrance of every country up to Canada without mentioning so much as a single individual athelete, and then proceeded, when the Canadaian marched in, to forget the remainder of the countries, and then offer the life story of every Canadian athelete who so much as licked the bootstraps of another Canadain athelete. My first impulse was: "Don't the rest of the countries count for anything?", and it hasn't much changed today. As far as I'm concerned the Olympics are a strange and mostly unattractive combination of overgrown high school quarterbacks and overblown national pride, but carried to downright harmful extents. The message is "Success comes from being strong, fast, agile (as opposed to educated, intelligent, broad-minded), and only our atheletes have been pitted against everyone else's. Cheer for the homeland." Oh, and Blitz, London may not be the most diverse city in the world, but it's not compleatly off the scale. Most notably, the city boasts the largest proportion of Arab citizens of any Canadian city. The Greek community is also significant, and my great uncle came from the Italian one. Detroit-Windsor is one metropolis. The Canadian-American border is a social fiction that does more harm than good, but in the end can be largly ignored. It really should be done away with altogether, but that probably wouldn't find the approval of people further from the edges of the two states. Benjamin A. Vazquez, U.E. | ||
Cjdb16 Member Username: Cjdb16 Post Number: 105 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 198.109.49.243 |
Breathe Art Theatre Project(est. 2004): Committed to the principle of contemporary programming through the collaboration of Windsor/Detroit actors, directors and designers, Breathe Art Theatre Project's mission is to advance the spirit of contemporary social theatre in its community by nurturing and supporting artists, encouraging repeatable creative relationships, and offering a skilled environment for established and developing artists from the Windsor/Detroit community. Breathe Art is dedicated to perpetuating an ethic of mutual respect within our communities and across our borders. Breathe Art Theatre Project brings theatre alive with the sounds of rock 'n' roll with the outrageous and sexy contemporary cult smash, Hedwig and The Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask. Hedwig and The Angry Inch will run cross-border, taking the stage March 3 and 4 at the Loop Nightclub in Windsor, and then March 10 to the 26 at Detroit's 1515 Broadway. Hedwig and the Angry Inch will be directed by Valerie Bonasso, featuring Kevin Young and Katie Galazka. "The most exciting rock score written for the theater since, oh, ever!" ---Time Magazine In the form of a stand-up comedy / cabaret, this groundbreaking, award-winning smash tells the story of "song stylists" Hedwig Schmidt, who happens to be the victim of a sex-change operation which has left her with just "an angry inch." Using songs and outrageous and hilarious monologues, Hedwig tells her story of love, loss and individuality. Performance Times and Dates: Windsor Performances at Loop Nightclub Friday, March 3 and Saturday, March 4 at 8 p.m. Detroit Performances at 1515 Broadway Theatre Friday, March 10, 17, 24 at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 11, 18, 25 at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Sunday, March 12, 19, 26 at 7 p.m. Ticket Information: $20 Adult/$12 Student Call Hedwig Hotlines @ (519) 980-0607 (Windsor) (313 965-1515 (Detroit) or Email BreatheArtTheatreProject@yahoo .com Theatre Information: Loop Nightclub 159 Chatham St. W., WIndsor, ON Downtown Windsor, 4 blocks from the tunnel 1515 Broadway Theatre 1515 Broadway, Detroit, MI Across from the Detroit Opera House, one block from Comerica Park, besides Small Plates Restaurant Additional Information: www.BreatheArtTheatre.com | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 1759 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.47.101.255 |
Benjamin, you're just noting the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. Those ceremonies are just a splash as to what the games are really about. Watch the actual competition; CBC shows plenty of other countries besides Canada- a heckuva lot more than NBC and their delayed coverage. Obviously you're not into the benefits that participating in an elite level sport can produce. And if there was one place where pride for one's homeland can be somewhat harmless , it's the Olympic games. Why not cheer for one country's athletes? And I even cheer for those country's that still send their best athletes even though they have no chance to obtain a medal- what an honor that would be to represent your country! These athletes in their attempts should be cheered during their moment. I'm just thankful that CBC shows it and people over here in Detroit can enjoy it. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5303 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 209.216.150.127 |
As for the question about about the Tunnel BBQ - Yes they are in recievership, but no they aren't closing anytime soon. They are still open and working through the recivership. However, if you don't come eat there than it will go away. Come show some love and spend some $$$ if you like it. Declining visits from the Yanks post 9/11 was one of the factors for recivership. | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 199 Registered: 09-2005 Posted From: 198.103.184.76 |
Best things about living in a border city -- with respect to transportation: - It takes minutes to get from downtown Windsor to the downtown core of one of America's largest cities - You can take public transit that costs only a few dollars to go between Canada and the United States - More options for flying in and out of the area with regularly scheduled flights to and from both Metro and Windsor airports - Duty free gas at the bridge! For food a step or two away from the border crossing: Tunnel BBQ and Mexican Town | ||
Kimmiann Member Username: Kimmiann Post Number: 15 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 155.139.50.15 |
I'm surprised with all of these border food offerings, no one has mentioned a quick boat ride for Duffy's perch and pitchers of Canadian beer! A summertime institution along the Detroit River. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 1765 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.47.101.255 |
Great call on the duty free gas at the bridge! I'll tap my tank down to dang near empty before I go & fill up. With the average price of gas being what it is now and the gas station at the Ambassador Bridge being on average a dime less than any other gas station in town, it's an absolute bargain. Not to mention you can get bread, eggs & milk for a buck apiece. I've never had the nerve to go grab a snadwich from their little vending wagon outside the duty free shop though. | ||
Blitz Member Username: Blitz Post Number: 135 Registered: 09-2004 Posted From: 72.139.187.142 |
Benjamin, I'm not sure what you're talking about regarding London and Arab citizens. Here's the stats... London metro (pop 427,000)...6100 of Arab descent Windsor metro (pop 305,000)...7800 of Arab descent Windsor has that large Arab enclave east of downtown (Begley school is now over 50% Arabic). | ||
Mw2gs Member Username: Mw2gs Post Number: 153 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 70.229.41.55 |
Easy access to friendly Canadian white women | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 1768 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.47.101.255 |
"Easy access to friendly Canadian white women" Tell that to steelworker here. I don't think he's landed one yet. | ||
Steelworker Member Username: Steelworker Post Number: 585 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 70.236.194.140 |
No I havent landed one yet tell me where I can find one? | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 200 Registered: 09-2005 Posted From: 198.103.184.76 |
Getting both Wings, Leafs, and Habs (en francais) on free tv, Wings and Leafs games on the radio, and Tigers and Jays games on both radio and tv. Getting to collect all of those coupons from the Bridge (that you cannot use on gas), and having the thrill of scratching the card and always getting 50 cents off. If you live on the Canadian side: you get the major American networks without paying for cable, and you get amazing views of Detroit's skyline. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 1769 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.47.101.255 |
Does anyone know of anybody that's scratched more than a feeble 50¢ on those Bridge coupons?? |
