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Michigan has always reminded me of a southern state in the north.
Please tell me you're kidding. Have you ever been to Michigan? Or the South? I've lived in both and Michigan and the South, and they are about as similar as pickles and F-16s.
Please tell me you're kidding. Have you ever been to Michigan? Or the South? I've lived in both and Michigan and the South, and they are about as similar as pickles and F-16s.
I currently live in Michigan and it just an opinion and yes I have been all over the south, it has been some years though.
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I currently live in Michigan and it just an opinion and yes I have been all over the south, it has been some years though.
I'm originally from Mi. I've been to and lived in alot of southern states. Florida, Alabama, Arkansa, Texas, New Mexico. Louisiana, Arizona, Georgia, California, Tennessee, Nevada,Oklahoma, and more........
No Comparison.
There may be a slight resemblence in some, but that's it.
This question really depends whether you prefer urban areas or rural areas. Illinois' biggest city, Chicago, is among the most vibrant and interesting in the United States. Michigan's largest city, Detroit, is among the most rundown, dangerous, and depressing in the United States. Illinois' scenery and life outside the Chicago metropolitan area is pretty uninspiring. Michigan's greatest parts are as far away from Detroit as possible, and the Upper Peninsula is gorgeous.
As someone who greatly prefers rural over urban areas, I would take Michigan in a heartbeat.
It's obvious the reason why Illinois is winning is because most people are obsessed with Chicago and associate all of Michigan with Detroit.
This is still a bit of an overgeneralization.
Yes overall, Michigan does have more natural beauty than Illinois. However in Illinois you just have to look a little bit harder but not that much. I refer you to Steve-O. The Shawnee Hills are basically Illinois's version of northern Michigan. Whoever compared the U.P. to Alaska in terms of population density is ridiculous. And like Steve-O said, the eastern side of the L.P. is just like Illinois, except with more forest patches.
As far as urban areas: Chicago maybe have much more to offer Detroit, (a big chunk of Chicago is still depressing, dangerous, and run-down, its just out of the way from the north side where most of the action is) but Michigan does have better smaller urban areas, if that means anything to anyone.
Illinois has no comparison to Grand Rapids. Peoria may come the closest, but still not much of a comparison. Ann Arbor has one of the most famous public universities in the midwest, and is considered a more vibrant interesting college town than Champaign-Urbana, and may indeed save SE Michigan. (It may become the Austin of the midwest). And with the exception of Evanston and maybe Oak Park, there are no suburbs that are as vibrant with young people in Chicagoland as Ferndale, Royal Oak, and Birmingham.
Honestly, the two states are not that far removed from each other, when you consider the whole world, or even the whole country.
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