Here's the real truth. Michigan is beautiful. Lots of fun in the summer and winter.
Lot's of lakes and streams. The water is cool and clear, the fishing is great. The most shoreline of any state, I believe. Boating is big here, as is snowmobiling.
The people are friendly. But, if your white and in Detroit. You'll be a honky or cracker. Detroit, Flint, Pontiac and Ypsilanti aren't safe. But every state has cities who's core is rundown. Compton, Newark, south Chicago, St. Louis...
I have a friend that lives near me and she never locks her door even when she is on vacation. The most that has ever happened is someone came in cooked up her frozen food and drank her beer. But, cleaned up before they left.
The roads do suck down around the big D or depending on who's district you live in.
I'll never leave permanently, but I do like to get away from the depths of winter.
Unemployment is very high. I'm self-employed, so I don't know how bad it really is. With what I do for a living it would be hard to do it somewhere else.
sure..
weather .. sucks.
women .. sucks.
jobs .. sucks.
roads .. sucks.
sport teams .. sucks.
