[Sharks With Lasers]

...after about a 3.5 year absence for grad school. I'm not sure how I feel about it - I kind of want to go somewhere else for a bit while I'm still relatively young and able to do so, but it's a lot nicer here than it's portrayed in the media.

[YAZ]

Yep.

And you'll be wearing shorts in 4 months!

Woot!

[canudigit]

Originally Posted by cbmsu01

...after about a 3.5 year absence for grad school. I'm not sure how I feel about it - I kind of want to go somewhere else for a bit while I'm still relatively young and able to do so, but it's a lot nicer here than it's portrayed in the media.

Shhh...don't let on that Michigan is more than just a ghetto full of pimps, drug dealers, and abandoned houses in Detroit! They'll hear you over on the other forums and they might come here and spoil our little secret, namely that Michigan is actually a beautiful, diverse, and wonderful place to live. Then they would all want to come here and it would be ruined for the rest of us. Yaz, especially don't tell them over there on the Phoenix forum. Let them keep thinking that they are the only people in the world who have enough sense to live in "paradise" while the rest of us toil away here in hell...

[michmoldman]

Originally Posted by cbmsu01

...after about a 3.5 year absence for grad school. I'm not sure how I feel about it - I kind of want to go somewhere else for a bit while I'm still relatively young and able to do so, but it's a lot nicer here than it's portrayed in the media.

welcome back! Were kinda like the Tiger Woods of states. People loved us, now they dont really like us and talk bad, but eventually they will love us again! Just remember...even most of the people who live here dont realize what a great state this is! Get out this spring, summer, and fall and travel Michigan!!

[Jwo85]

Originally Posted by canudigit

Shhh...don't let on that Michigan is more than just a ghetto full of pimps, drug dealers, and abandoned houses in Detroit! They'll hear you over on the other forums and they might come here and spoil our little secret, namely that Michigan is actually a beautiful, diverse, and wonderful place to live. Then they would all want to come here and it would be ruined for the rest of us. Yaz, especially don't tell them over there on the Phoenix forum. Let them keep thinking that they are the only people in the world who have enough sense to live in "paradise" while the rest of us toil away here in hell...

TELL THEM. Perhaps they will bring jobs here so people don't have to leave the state to find Jobs.

[YAZ]

Originally Posted by canudigit

Yaz, especially don't tell them over there on the Phoenix forum. Let them keep thinking that they are the only people in the world who have enough sense to live in "paradise" while the rest of us toil away here in hell...

I tell 'em that I'm from Michigan and 90% of 'em think that I'm from Detroit. Now I know how New Yorkers feel.....

Even Chicagoans who have ventured into MI remark how flat the entire state is and that there are no trees. The only water there is from 3 Great Lakes. I remind them about Lake Erie...... Maybe they should venture north of M-10.......

And hey all of you hygrogeologists, I'm aware that Lakes Huron & Michigan are technically one lake......

I love MI and AZ, I just didn't realize how much I dug Michigan until I moved. Spring is coming to y'all soon. It'll be 90 here while the snow will almost be gone for you. I always liked the daffodils and crokus(sic?) poppin' up through the white stuff.

It'll soon be time to drag the shanties in and make the switch from teardrops, waxworms and tip ups to weedless worms, daredevils and crawlers.

[Cardiff Giant]

Originally Posted by canudigit

Shhh...namely that Michigan is actually a beautiful, diverse, and wonderful place to live.

So true. My wife went to U-M for grad school back in the 90s. I followed her 8 months after she left our native NY.

People couldn't believe that I was going to leave NY for MI. It was nothing but a great 5 years and I'm glad that I had a chance to live in the great state of Michigan!

[witty, wise and wicked]

I moved from MI almost two years ago (now in Utah), and I sooo miss the beautiful landscape! The UP is a little 'heaven on earth', and the coast, lighthouses, water, everything!

I miss my state, but mostly my family and friends that still live there.

And yes, there are still good things happening there, one of my best friends and her husband just had their bid on a house accepted yesterday!

So, not all of MI is going to hell! Oh wait, that's a town!

I hope that we can sell our home here in Utah and eventually move back, because it truly is a great state surrounded by great lakes!

[YAZ]

Hell, MI is a cool 'lil hamlet.

The Dam Site Inn has heard my gitfiddle.

I'd live there....

Utah is nice.

Love the hiking, camping, etc.

[cyberbehms]

Yes, the Great Lakes are awesome. It is great to spend summer days there - watching sunsets, listening to the waves crash on the shore, watching the boats and the numerous piers and lighthouses. All of the inner lakes are nice to have too since there are so many of them with many of them having public access. The weather here is usually pretty good May-September.. "Sometimes" April - though I do remember some snow still in late April and early May and I'm in the lower peninsula! October can also be nice. What I do NOT like is the cloudy, dreary, cold, blustery, icy winter weather.. As so many people have stated - it wears on you after a while. I love AZ and miss the blue skies, palm trees, and warm weather, especially this time of year!