GR is great, As long as you stay out of the Chimpanzee zones you'll be fine and have a good time, 15 MI south is Caledonia village, one of the safest towns in Mi, with one of the best School systems in the state

It used to be a great town, but so many people are fleeing Chicago and coming here, buying everything up, driving prices for real estate, restaurants, hotels, etc. through the roof, and bringing their liberal values with them

Will be messaging or texting soon :)

Been here since 99'. Ready to leave as the kids are about done with school. People looking to move here and enroll their kids should know GH school board just quietly adopted title IX changes mandating teachers use students' chosen pronouns, allow boys into girls private spaces and their sports. Did I mention the administration also allowed a million bucks to be embezzled about 3 years ago and refuses to answer questions. Plus, it's cold as heck in the winter. Looking forward to moving to a warmer, less woke climate soon.

Would you advice against buying farmland that does not have the mineral rights in michigan?

i was just there and it was beautiful

How fast is the internet out there? Is there any fiber options?

I was born in Big Rapids, left at 6mo. Old to East Tawas. Live now in Petoskey, MI

My partner and I are looking for property in northern Michigan right now. Thank you for this ❤

There are various max footage that requires no permit. Find out what it is there and build a tiny home. Get electric and use alternative toilet. Illegal but keep it stealth and no one knows or cares. Stop paying rent.

Seven years ago I was quoted 31hundo for septic. Btw we knew about pfas when i was a teen in the 60s and 70s. People just don't care. Which brings me to: I always do environmental research online and by phone to the DNR and EPA. Hard to find a square foot of uncontaminated land in the LP but it can be done. My next purchase I will remember to check for light pollution bc where I am now I have missed every celestial event in the last seven years.

Now if you could just make resorters to stay in their own state!

i'm worried of bears suddenly appearing

I am going to visit BR for a day trip and i will keep going up the bridge, i am looking for a main attraction i.e. hiking in the woods or along the river

Yer definitely in wahlfieild park

Its extremely expensive getting pfas removed, and alsonincredibly difficult. Not easy

Ruining small towns across the coast with videos like this. Its growing to quickly the last few years. Stay away people...... The more people come the more it sucks.

Keep government out of just about everything. Everything they touch turns to excrement.

$500,000 for 35 acres. You ARE selling land with Gold in it. 😆

I’m 24 now I talk about wanting to buy land all time. People look at me like I’m crazy, one day it’ll happen. Gonna look back at this comment when it does. Thanks

Live in west MI, I could lose my job today and have another job before the end of the day

Born and raised in Kalamazoo. There is a lot of seasonal beauty in Michigan. The crime in our bigger cities is sky rocketing as of late and we are now number two in sex trafficking. I am moving out of the state next month with my family following my siblings who already left. Both parties are failing this state.

Another con is the ticks. West Michigan is loaded with ticks! You have to be careful about Lyme Disease. Along with with a big body of water is a lot of bugs. Ticks & mosquitoes beings the the menacing & dangerous.

You might need a geological review, some areas have shallow glacial till and might be subject to karsting.( sink holes)

just moved to GR from the caribbean. I am literally scared as hell to deal with my first winter and all that snow

Thank you so much for making this video. As the wife and i are looking to move up north

We just purchased 20 acres in the UP. You covered everything very thoroughly!

Coast Guard is very fun, but it can get crowded

Pro: Western MI, Lower UP north of the Zilwaukee Bridge, and the Thumb Area, are a gorgeous, to say nothing of the UP. If you're outdoorsy, particularly if you like fishing and golf, MI has a lot to offer. Con: Good luck trying to visit those places enough to enjoy them. You'd have to be pretty rich or resourceful to live out those ways, and most of the jobs, housing, and competition over such, are in the SE, in Oakland / Macomb / Wayne. The cost of living is high, while infrastructure is suffering, violent crime seems to be increasing (a friend of mine had SWAT called to her street in Rochester recently, normally a decent-to-good area), and our State and Local Government orgs - regardless of desire or party - just can't seem to keep up with the many problems. And more people from out of the state seem to be moving here every quarter, which isn't helping much - if anything, it feels like everything here is Tourist Priced now. In short, for all the things I like about MI, it feels like living in the pull of a black hole, and the times I get to see the beauty of the dunes and trails are too rare to make up for it. I almost think I'd give my left arm to leave, if I knew where I might like to go and had no other means to get there. So, caveat emptor, prospective neighbors: by all means, visit, but be absolutely sure if you want to move here, because you might be stuck for it after.

I can’t stand the governor that would stop me from moving back

Unfortunately for MI, K-12 education has suffered under Republican administrations & the crazy growth of charter (Corporate) schools that siphon off funds by eg not accepting special needs kids. Also, MI suffers from the doings of the Christian Nationalist movement funded here by the likes of the Great Lakes Education Project, started by none other than the Amway DeVoses , esp former education Secretary under Trump Betsy DeVos, whose brother Eric Prince was leader of Blackwater, the private security firm that infamously killed numerous innocent civilians in an incident in Iraq. SO IM THANKFUL FOR OUR CURRENT DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION ADMINISTRATION THAT VALUES ALL PEOPLE.

Democratic government has made progress on infrastructure that Republican administrations haven’t made since the ‘50s.

Snowed in for 2 weeks? Nah.

Im a bus driver and I took children there today !!!! Wow what a cool place

Old cars would be a bonus too me, lol.

Can’t wait to move back to Michigan. Ready to gtho of Texas 🔥

Hi! Planning on visit in the end of July for celebrate my Bday, What restaurant is a must to go? And Which is the best beach for toddlers? Thank you! 😊

Contact information?

Hi I’m located in Detroit mi I’m looking to buy some land this year

It’s a shity place. Ran by democrats. Too many Muslims. Not a lot of jobs.

Great info

Hello from Muskegon. Great things to think about.

One thing that would be really cool to provide is a map of townships by county that are green for "easy to work with" to get things approved or red for "difficult to work with" to get things approved - could do this by different endpoints like the barndominiums, homesteads, etc.

I currently live in north-eastern Virginia and there are some left hand turns here like you describe. I used to live in Chicago so know all about the lake effect snow and the big temperature swings: could go up and down 30° sometimes the same day at certain times of year between the 30-40s to the 60-low 70s. We also got a lot of thick fog sometimes rolling in off Lake Michigan that would blanket the city - similar what you see in parts of San Francisco. Enjoyed your video.

Visited Mackinac island and looking at some lots on there. Found a 50k lot can you pros and cons on something like that. Jc

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SW MI is stunningly beautiful. We draw tourists every summer (pro: revenue, con: more people). We are the fruit belt and seem to be growing in the beer and wine industries. From SW MI you can access Chicago, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, South Bend in about an hour or two. So you can have small town feel with bigger city access. The last several winters have been mild, not terribly cold or much snow. Our climate has changed and we have even changed in growing zones.

Those beaches are beautiful. But they're not white. Lived there 1987-2020.

Live in Martin MI just below GR, and work for Gordon foods. Definitely a great place to live and a lot of work available in the area

Have you ever ran into a hunted land?