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[snoogit]

1) Apple Orchards in October (mmm mmm mmm yummy)
2) Michigan State University (Go Sparty!)
3) Snow-mobiling to Mackinac Island in February (Haven't done it in ages though )
4) Marquette, MI
5) Traverse City, MI
6) Lions, Tigers, and Redwngs, Oh My!
7) Tom Van Howe, and Suzanne Geha
8) Monroe Center, Ottawa Ave, and Division
9) Fred Meijer and Mike Illitch
10) Winter!!!!!!!!!  

[Timize]

In no particular order:

• Michigan State University (I'm a huge fan of the Spartans)
  
• West Michigan area high school/college sports
  
• Downtown Grand Rapids (it's so beautiful at night, especially around Christmas)
  
• Winter in Michigan
  
• Summer in Michigan (it's not too hot, just right in the summer time)
  
• Skiing up north
  
• Generally low housing costs
  
• Meijer (I practically live there and prefer it over Wal-Mart anyday, no matter what)
  
• Festival of the Arts
  
• Detroit, Michigan

Edited by Timize, 19 November 2006 - 06:00 PM.

[davidb]

1.Reasonable cost of living
2.Water everywhere and all of the recreational opportunities that go along with it
3.Apple orchards in the fall
4.Michigan football, Tigers baseball, Red Wings Hockey
5.The towns of Ann Arbor, Grand Haven, Frankenmuth, Petoskey, and Traverse City
6.Add to that Grand Rapids, Lansing, and Detroit
7.The fact that most people don't tolerate arrogance
8.The warmth and comfort of the place - Like Michael Douglas' character says in Wonder Boys "Its a place you would like to wake up in on Christmas morning"
9.Faygo, Koegels, Vernors, and the dozens of delicious small ice cream companies
10.The trees

[Texas Hill Country]

My favorite thing is Lake Superior.  That is also my favorite thing about Minnesota and Wisconsin.

[cheshireguy]

1. Charlevoix, Petoskey, Cheboygan, Traverse City, Holland, Grand Haven, Alpena, Leland, and any other of our dozens of pristine, tourist-busy ports of call cities. I've been around the world, and I haven't seen anything better on a lazy July afternoon. Take your pick.
2. Finding an isolated stretch of the Grand, Manistee, Pere Marquette, or Au Sable River and feeling how our forefathers probably felt as they peered down the same current.
3. The Detroit Tigers - especially the season opener
4. Downtown Grand Rapids on a Friday evening in September (with, of course, a Founder's Centennial IPA in hand!)
5. The way everyone not from Detroit or Grand Rapids will point to a location on their "mitten" to tell someone where they grew up.
6. Call-in-snowed-in-to-work-days.
7. Our proximity to other beautiful locales such as Chicago, Toronto, Stratford, Wisconsin, and Ohio. Okay, scratch that last one!
8. Trendy hipster cities like Birmingham, Royal Oak, Saugatuck, Eastown, and East Lansing.
9. The abundance of colleges to root for - I root for Central Michigan (fire up Chips!) and Aquinas b/c alma mater status, but then you have U-M football, MSU basketball, Grand valley everything, and tons of other choices.
10. This is my home. There is no other Michigan.

[vompy]

One-Meijers (Cleaner version of walmart)
Two-Going through all the seasons
Three- 10 cent can returns
Four-Nice schools here
Five-Michigan Football, State Basketball...that couple
Six-Downtown GR
Seven-Downtown Holland is even nice.. the Thursday street performances
Eight-Sledding in the SNOW!!!!!
Nine- Nice schools
Ten- LAKE MICHIGAN//BEEEEEEEEACH//Water Sports//