DON’T Move To Michigan! Yet.. 

Someone should make fun of me for not spelling Antarctica right…

@@LivingInMichigan Nah, i'll let you do it :)

My question for you is how much are you able to say, as a realtor, about the negatives as well as the positives? We need a complete picture. My fiancee and I are seriously considering moving to MI (from WA state. love it here but too expensive for us). We've heard mostly good things about MI, including your video, thank you. But we still know next to nothing about the state/places to move. It's pretty scary going in blind.

can u STOP being a colonizer😡 STAY OUT OF MICHIGAN!!!!!! WE'RE FULL

What %1

@@tonycompeau2170 who said anything about 1% ?

Wish I could get up there other then for funerals. My father's family is from the Soo, came up the in March and wow the drive from Cadillac to there was off and on white out conditions, was just glad driving in the snow doesn't bother me.

I would say it's more to do with the freezing and thawing.

​@@cryst2huNo, it's definitely not having weight restrictions like others states do. If you go in areas outside of the major manufacturing areas the roads are fine. The problem is due to the manufacturing because all those automobiles and other things require heavier loads which causes more wear and tear on those frequently traveled roads.

You can still get sun if it’s cloudy lol or raining or snowing or even in shade or umbrella

So much more sun in the Summer, though! Up your vitamin D!

we had an earthquake 3 years ago, major fault lines could rip it apart if awakened, and we have tornados. do u like to chew the air before uninhale it? by all means! come find out what 102°F feels like in 98% humidity!

​@@donnahilton471 its very cloudy here in the summer too, actually

A lot of lake effect clouds even when no snow falls. Second cloudiest state in the Union next to Washington State. But you also get to enjoy 16 hour days and sunsets at 10:30 p.m. Up North due to the latitude, and the skies do clear up when spring and summer arrive.

hahah it's not that bad! (me being bias comfortably situated in SE Michigan 😂) If anything, we should be preparing for the supply of cloudy, gloomy days ahead!

Stats show michigan only averages 65 truly sunny days per year . That's with no clouds . The remaining 300 are either straight cloudy grey days or mild cloud cover . Cold days last from October till about June , Temps ranging from -7*f at worst to 65*f best for those months . July till about end of Sept are usually 70 * f to 90*f and almost never anything less then 70 % humidity if not worse .

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽FACTS!!!! and its all TRANSPLANTS thatve voted for it to be utterly DESTROYED and impossible for the natives that actually belong here to even buy a home😡

Just curious where you moved to ?

@@hakashaqU812 why

@@evamoore2297 You said... "Not worth living in..."

@@hakashaqU812 the way this state is ran is disgusting. It's a leader in the left oppressive movement. If you're working you're paying for a lot of people that aren't pushed work for Thier own. Always bootlicking the upper politicians and wasting our tax dollars on things that don't cut it like electric cars, solar energy in Michigan? Wind power that costs more in batteries to run blades..... taking land from farmers and selling it to the Chinese. Trying to take away your gun rights. The leftist government here has destroyed any remainder of what our forefathers and ancestors built. It is a total disgrace to anyone that wants to be happy without stomping on everyone else. Don't get me wrong... this started with granholm.

What intersecting roads are you typically driving?

It's Motown

It’s the volume of the traffic, not the weather so much, when it comes to Canadian roads.

go back to chicago. WE HATE FIPS

Oh No Bay City is SUCKS as I always call B .C. as Dullsville I live in B.C. for 64 years

I don’t know how you can stand constant changing weather

Of course Tom! Love creating it.

Agreed. It’s an interesting situation to say the least. Aside from roads, I have noticed several proposals being laid out to completely redo downtown spaces and community centers.

Go Blue (sorry, not sorry)

Most of it has to do with where inflation is. Michigan property taxes increase by 5% or the rate of inflation. As far as roads it really depends on the community, they’ve been doing a lot of construction on the main expressways as of late. I had a conversation with a civil engineer asking why they wouldn’t just do the best possible material so they wouldn’t need to redo them again, and the reasoning is they don’t have enough funds at the time of construction to pay for it, so they put bandaids on it with the little amount of funds they do have. Property tax funds are disbursed in so many different directions, that’s also the hardship.

Michigan for decades was run by the auto and related industries like steel mfg. All were heavily reliant on 18-wheelers for the transport of products and materials. Their lobby was very efficient as to permissible weight levels for trucks on the roads. The trucks destroy the roads in fairly short order. The climate here plays a role, too. Once the concrete slabs get cracked, water enters and the freeze-thaw cycle brutalizes the concrete. Most of the property taxes fund local public schools. Increase in millages are generally on the ballot in off years when few people vote. School employees like teachers do show up in droves for those elections and get the increases passed, while at the same time electing pro-union school board members sympathetic to union demands at contract negotiation times. State roads are funded by the gasoline tax.

It's too early to have my mouth watering like that Lisa! I agree, I'll definitely touch more on that.

@@LivingInMichigan at least you have access to them. Great info 👍

@@lisasmith5760 Very true! Thank you

Vernors, Better Made, National Coney

@thirdeyeordie8226 just opened my Better Maid delivery. In Florida Publix carries Vernon's and recently added Sanders Candy. Unfortunately no Bumpy cake 😕 Too hot here now

There are actual mountains (2,000 ft) in the upper penninsula but no real mountainous areas in the Lower Pennisula, just sand dunes with a max height of about 700' along the shores of Lake Michigan built up by ages of sand being blown from the lakeshore inland. Most are now covered with soil and mature trees. There are plenty of ski resorts in the northwest corner of the L.P. built on those old sand dunes. But you asked about horses...... The Metro Detroit area has a vibrnt breeding and riding community. There used to be two pari-mutual race tracks, a harness one very close to the nothern city limits of Detroit in the suburb of Hazel Park, and a thoroughbred race track, Northvill Downs, in the City of Northvills about 15 miles due West of Detroit's western boundary. Casino gambling put both racetracks out of business. Horse lovers tended to locate in northern Oakland County about 20 miles north of the Hazel Park track on farms just outside of Northville Your are right about the City of Detroit being nothing but flat. It's built on an ice-age lake bottom. But to the northwest and west of the big city, the land becmes rolling due to retreating glaciers dumping their sand and gravel in irregular patterns. The resultant "hills" aren't very high, mabye 300' max here antd there, but where the hills are tallest, you will generally find public parks, and many of them have riding trails and staging areas for horse trailers. One area, Metamora, is an exurb of Detroit with all sorts of horse farms set on rolling land with mature forests, streams, and lakes. It may be a bit pricy, though, especially if your dream is to acquire some fenced acreage with a barn and spacious ranch home. The land around Northville is not quite as hilly, but if I were a horse, I'd still love it. Plus Northville has its own vibrant little downtown area to enjoy. One last point I'd like to make is that encircling the Metro Detroit area are a ring of "MetroParks". My favorite is Kensington MetroPark in MIlford, due to its petting farm and bike trails. I used to live in Milford, another nice city possessed of its own little downtown, and immediately adjacent to Kensington MetroPark. The place is virtually surrounded by parkland. Not being a horse guy, I never paid much attention to what degree those many parks accomodate horse riding, but I think they would have to. I do recall the areas outside of town having lots of fenced fields of the sort you tell yourself "there must be a pony in there somewhere!" I was curious and just googled "horse boarding"for western Oakland County and up popped 17 facilities. I've watched video of R.E. agents describing Detroit and environs in the hopes of building a book of business for themselves. I don't think they do a very good job of describing how beautful and natural the area is once you get out of the near-in and highly developed suburbs. Come take a look with your own eyes. I think you'll be amazed and convinced you stumbled upon one of the world's best secrets. Unless you'd prefer not to deal with a true (but rarely really harsh) winter, I can't think of anyplace else I'd rather live. "Expensive" is a relative concept. Pretty much everything in Metro Detroit is going to be cheaper than place on the East or West Coast. The $2.5M you might have to pay for a 1200 sq. ft. home in Marin County, CA, might buy you a horse farm outside of Milford. Once again, typing that made me curious. Check out this link: www.horseproperties.net/properties/milford-charter-township-oakland-county-michigan-united-states

@@Yesquire0 Oh ok...Thank you so much for letting me know!

Good luck on property. Last I heard it right at $100k per acre.

Lots of Hilly Country on East Side of upper lower Pennisluia

@@richardtrudeau7363 Thanks so much for letting me know...

south wont be better

@@mf-db6nm 🤣why is that

DOOOO IT!!!

​@@mf-db6nm liar

@@TRUMPeterswan1624 Iam 🙌🏾💪🏽

Of course Catherine! Thanks for watching

It’s only bad if you’re a bad driver lol

EXCEPT URE UNWELCOME👍🏽

I retired and moved to Michigan from San Diego. I was never able to buy property, but I found a very reasonable house.

dont bother. u cant afford to buy here on ssi. lmfao, i cant afford it on 2 grand a year. colonizers need to LEAVE

Grand rapids is much better than Wyoming

To me Grand Rapids and Wyoming is Grand Rapids, all surrounding town is Grand rapids, so populated. Originally from GR and would never move back down there.

Hi there! I would be happy to help. My email is mcmanamon13@gmail.com or you can call/text me at (810) 360-3488. You can also click the link on my RU-vid channel to fill out a form.

DONT DO IT. STAY AWAY!!!! FIND ANOTHER PLACE

i dont care what u wanna do, STAY OUT!!!!

I know that's a big headline out there now for sure! I'd say nationally it is a problem, but in Michigan it's not as big of a problem. There's definitely been an uptick in all cash offers, but believe it or not, those offers are not all investors actually! People always say "cash is king" but a lot of these all cash offers are going in so far below asking price with the ego that it's all cash, whereas these people putting in offers over asking price with a mortgage and an appraisal guarantee (out of pocket money to cover the over asking price offer) are still winning.

@LivingInMichigan That's what I assumed. I'm a little surprised people are still bidding over asking price still. Quick side note. Have you been to Muskegon lately. I barely recognized their downtown. It's going from a run down town to a place where your spending $70 for lunch. That city is underrated. Your only 10 min away from two beautiful state parks and a theme park.

YES!!! they came here and fokking QUADRUPLED the cost of housing in the last 6 years!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 FOKK investors and FOKK those who gice them a purpose here

​@@LivingInMichigan that is a flat out LIE🤬 u know damn well investors have fokked this state. DONT LIE!

​@@backrack01 uuuugh shut UP

everything south of the border is cakewalk. STAY OUT

GO BACK TO INDIANA

u should STAY OUT of michigan. not welcome!!!

Hey! Feel free to shoot me a text at (810) 360-3488 or email amcmanamon@signaturesothebys.com to get some more info than what I can type here!

It's nice Housing in all price ranges

Very bland area. Just chain stores.

try florida

Less traffic

Hi Johnathan! Thank you for your comment. I would be happy to help with your plan to move to Michigan. Feel free to contact me to discuss further via email or call. Amcmanamon@signaturesothebys.com or 810-360-3488

Michigan is also failing every state metric there is per the stats. Infact in 2020 the " society of civil engineers " gave michigan straight " D " grade on all 4 counts of infrastructure. Good luck & buy a truck !

I think OKIE is worst

Michigan is very grey most of the time . Infact stats show we only truly get real sunshine here about 65 days a year without any type of cloud cover .

I saw parts of Oklahoma have had a worse winter than parts of Michigan this year. It’s supposed to hit 50+ degrees in Michigan again this week. And I will take Michigan over Oklahoma from May to October any day.

That's true you can't beat a Michigan summer. My reasoning for liking Oklahoma more goes beyond the weather and geography tho. Im at a point in my life where I'm transitioning into a better version of myself and one last thing I'm struggling with is drug addiction. I'm not saying the people in OK are better than MI but I have noticed that there is a culture down there where it's far less common for people to do drugs there (in my experience with the folks I met down there) and that's an environment I need right now@@travissmith9488

You sound like me leaving Georgia for the Midwest with my parents and then being back eventually to my home state and not wanting to stay in my home state again 😂😂😂😂

Just automatically turn the shower on after 😂

what?

well I guess that's relative because as a woman I think he has a beautiful mustache and my teenage daughter adores men with mustaches too. To each their own, as they say.

@@yourfavoritecoffeehouse9343 as a woman, I took love facial hair, when it compliments the face. My father, my brother, and my husband all have a variety of facial hair. In this young man's case, it's a distraction to his (very handsome) angular jawline. Further, his mustache has a gap over the philtrum, it's at an arrow-straight angle (devoid of the slight curve that is ideal) and his does not fully fill the space from under his nose to his lip. That nose-to-lip growth is what gives a mustache a lush, full look (Tom Selleck, Alex Trebek, Sam Elliott). This nice young man would likely look great with a "stubble beard." And yes ma'am you are correct... To each their own. Have a lovely day.

try europe. that chill af too

Our amazing governor flooded the dams because of a decision she made..ruined people's property values.

MOVE TO TENNESSEE

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 worst place on earth!

All of michigan is terrible. We are failing every state metric there is .

Or California. 👍

Great place if all you care about is hunting, fishing, ATV, boating, snowmobiling. If you give a shit about children or want anything else than that in life, or aren’t a white Christian, you’re not going to like it

Great question! There was actually a report that came out the middle of last year talking about the massive teacher shortage following the pandemic that is being addressed. I know Detroit will most likely have the largest supply of jobs, but there are definitely jobs in the cities outside of Detroit. I know a lot of people in teaching (coming from out of state mostly) will jump on the Michigan.gov website for educator recruitment to get their name out there and expose themselves to more opportunities, as It can be discouraging just browsing indeed, ziprecruiter, etc.

HELL NO. theyre paid like sht

It's not the crews . Nationally we spend less per capita on roads then anyone's else . Want nice roads we have to pay for them.