10 Favorite Things about Michigan

[dtown]

Grand Blanc, eh. Thats where Allan is from.

[MJLO]

MJLO is a fan of Allen and all of his immanent works!

[dtown]

JLO, i went to "your dads" McDonalds today. lol

[OneSweetWorld]

1. Mackanaw bridge/island (even though its impossible to spell right)

2. Traverse City

3. Pasties (i think thats how you spell them)

4. Monroe Center

5. Battle Creek

6. Ann Arbor

7. Comerica Park

8. the Palace

9. the traffic (seriously, i love really heavy traffic)

10. the casinos

[6th Gen local]

1.) Four seasons of weather

2.) Lake Michigan Beach's

3.) Grand Rapids

4.) Grand Haven - Muskegon - Holland

5.) Blueberries and Asparagus

6.) Forests

7.) Rivers and Lakes

8.) Abundance of hunting and fishing opportunities

9.) Traverse City - Petoskey - Harbor Springs

10.) Marquette

[starrfish]

*Marquette

*Union Pier

*Grand Rapids

*Great Lakes/ready access to the beach!

*pasties

*LaShish in Dearborn

*Ann Arbor

*The state is HUGE - try driving for 7 or 8 hours north in any state on the east coast and tell me how many states you drive through. Do it in Michigan and you're still in Michigan - more to love!

*Four seasons

*reasonable cost of living

[suydam]

I thought I'd fire this thread up again.

In no particular order:

1) Lake Superior shoreline

2) Lake Michigan shoreline

3) Leelanau

4) Ann Arbor

5) East Grand Rapids public schools

6) Buddy's Pizza

7) North Country Trail (those sections that are forested at least)

8) The Iceman Cometh Mountain Bike Race in November

9) Comerica Park on a sunny summer day

10) Coney Island hot dogs (specifically Kerby's, of course)

[dtown]

^some good choices!

[Weallneedhistory]

In no particular order

1.) Fall and all its glory: colors, apple cider, pumpkins, etc....

2.) Hunting/Fishing/Boating

3.) Great Lakes and their history

4.) Camping

5.) Grand Rapids

6.) Springtime after a harsh winter

7.) An actual White Christmas

8.) Lions on Thanksgiving Day (Regardless of the outcome)

9.) Michigans fascinating history

10.) Grand Haven

It's hard to stop at 10. But, there is one thing I would change about Michigan if I could - Lake Effect Snow in West Michigan.

[torgo]

The great lakes

4 seasons

Grand Rapids

University of Michigan football and "the big house"

The fact that you can show people where you live by pointing to your hand.

The small towns

The Mackinac Bridge

Downtown Detroit

All the trees

Red Wings hockey

[elliscm]

I really like this topic since I am preparing to move to California for school. I am not originally from here, but I have been here for 7 years and have learned to appreciate a lot of things that I will miss. Such as (not in order)

1. Everyone you know has a cabin up north and is happy to have you join them

2. Bell's Beer garden in summer, Kalamazoo

3. So much beautiful shoreline

4. Abundnant and delicious Middle Eastern food

5. Miles and miles of snowbmobile trails and other ways to keep busy in winter

6. The beautiful urban decay of Detroit, I have never seen anything like that anywhere

7. Ann Arbor on campus in the fall (ditto Dominick's in summer)

8. Mackinac Island, where I was married and will always cherish the memories

9. I like Midwestern people generally, people here are pretty nice

10. It's a tie between Meijer Gardens and the DIA

[gvsusean]

my top 10: (in no order)

1) the way everyone wears shorts on that first 50-60 degree spring day

2) Paris, Michigan (they have a tiny effeil tower )

3) this is where all my friends and family are

4) how everyone has swimming pools

5) all the H2O

6) GunRu

7) my hunting cottage

8) the beaches

9) the fact were called michiganders (not michiganians )

10) that we are the first line of defence against a Canadian invasion

[dtown]

1) the way everyone wears shorts on that first 50-60 degree spring day

[gvsusean]

haha! I do that!

[dtown]

my brother doesnt.

[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:

1. Michigan State University (I'm a huge fan of the Spartans)

2. West Michigan area high school/college sports

3. Downtown Grand Rapids (it's so beautiful at night, especially around Christmas)

4. Winter in Michigan

5. Summer in Michigan (it's not too hot, just right in the summer time)

6. Skiing up north

7. Generally low housing costs

8. Meijer (I practically live there and prefer it over Wal-Mart anyday, no matter what)

9. Festival of the Arts

10. Detroit, Michigan

[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

[The ATX]

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//