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Michigan is beautiful and unique in many ways. Ohio is too much like Indiana, boring. Michigan is my home, and it is an amazing place. I miss it, I'll most likely never move back, but it will always be home.
Michigan is so amazing you don't live there and will never go back.
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Originally Posted by JohnDBaumgardner
Columbus is "booming" BIG TIME and Cleveland is beginning to experience yet another renaissance
Maybe it's just me (definitely possible), but after living in Columbus for 5 years and hearing this phrase so often, it irks me every time. Columbus is not "booming big time" when compared to many cities in this country. Even for the Midwest and its history, Columbus' recent prosperity is pretty tame compared to the amazing rise of some cities like St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, etc. This is not to say that Columbus isn't growing, doing well, and doing very well for the Midwest and the U.S., but I just hate to use the term "booming" when it's not even the 20 fastest growing metros in the country.
I'm not trying to pick on you or anything, but since it's like the umpteenth time I've heard this expression, I just thought I'd point it out.
I said I will probably never move back, not that I will never visit. Big difference.
Not really. I see a lot of posts in this thread from people from Michigan who no longer live there. If it's so beautiful and amazing, why is it that you all moved away?
Where the cities are dying and even the people that like the state move away: Pure Michigan.
Maybe it's just me (definitely possible), but after living in Columbus for 5 years and hearing this phrase so often, it irks me every time. Columbus is not "booming big time" when compared to many cities in this country. Even for the Midwest and its history, Columbus' recent prosperity is pretty tame compared to the amazing rise of some cities like St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, etc. This is not to say that Columbus isn't growing, doing well, and doing very well for the Midwest and the U.S., but I just hate to use the term "booming" when it's not even the 20 fastest growing metros in the country.
I'm not trying to pick on you or anything, but since it's like the umpteenth time I've heard this expression, I just thought I'd point it out.
As for Michigan vs. Ohio -- no comment....
If you want to talk about the entire history of the Midwest or the US, maybe you have a point. I'm also not sure that having a meteoric rise is a good thing considering that Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, etc have all experienced periods of severe decline after their booms ended, and in all 3 cases, still suffer to varying degrees. I expect the same thing to happen to places in the Sunbelt eventually. Columbus has never went through a period of decline, not in 200 years, and it's steady growth, while I agree should probably not be considered "booming", is pretty healthy no matter what standard you're using. I do believe that cities like Columbus, Indy, KC, etc are all far better positioned for prominence than older metros that have already seen their booms come and go, or for that matter cities that are seeing booms now but will have the inevitable crash.
Not really. I see a lot of posts in this thread from people from Michigan who no longer live there. If it's so beautiful and amazing, why is it that you all moved away?
Where the cities are dying and even the people that like the state move away: Pure Michigan.
Some of us moved back after leaving as kids fresh out of school. A lot of the people I graduated with ended up in different states... most of those, are back somewhere in Michigan.
Not all cities are dying, some are quite vibrant and doing well. But you don't like MI so I'm not going to argue the point any further.
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I have a hard time figuring out what your point is in most of those statements
