Yoopers talk about what it means to live in the Upper Peninsula 

In the UP your four seasons are June, July August and winter

I was raised up in Northern Wisconsin, I loved it. I used to go to the UP to look for moose sheds as a kid, just a pretty damn majestic place. Lake superior is amazing, I feel guilty for not raising my kids there, we live in Texas now & they only have a few more years of school but it has weighed on my mind alot as they get older. Thanks for posting

I just moved back to Michigan at age 54 . My parents divorced when I was 12 and moved my siblings and I to Texas . I was NOT happy about it and it took me a lifetime to get back . The UP is a favorite destination for myself and my grown children. A beautiful place.

I started coming to the UP from Ohio 4 years ago snowmobiling, and fell in love with it. It’s amazing beyond explanation, and I look forward to coming back every year. Life changes for the better once you cross the Mac.

yoopers are the closest thing to being Canadian without actually being one.

I will *attempt* to make this comment as brief as possible, but bear with me. I'm originally from the Gainesville, Florida area and moved up to Escanaba around 20 years ago. My brother and his wife and kids were living there and he swore I'd love it. So I went up there on a whim, and he was right. It was Heaven on earth, at least to me. I absolutely *LOVED* the cold weather and the snow. I was there for around 6 months (during the winter), and then I had some things going on back home so I had to return to Florida. I was able to return to Escanaba about a year later. I was only able to be there for several months (once again, it was during the winter) before I had to, once again, return to Florida. I always swore I would one day return to the U.P. Well, flash forward 17 years (approximately) and I did just that. Only this time, I was married and had three young kids. My wife had never been north of Tennessee and my kids had never been north of Georgia. Needless to say, they had never seen snow in their entire lives. It took me several years to convince my wife that a move to the U.P. would be a great thing for our family, but I finally managed to convince her! We arrived in Marquette County on April 1st, 2016. The weather forecast was calling for around a half inch of snow that first night. We awoke to around 10 inches instead! My wife and kids were in Heaven! The next night we were supposed to get a full inch of snow and ended up with around 16 inches! That wound up being an extremely snowy April, and we were loving every minute of it. In addition to all the great weather (I realize most Yoopers don't share our opinion of snow! LOL) we experienced that first spring in the U.P., we also experienced unbelievable hospitality, generosity, and kindness. Obviously, I had explained to my wife and kids just how hospitable and kind Yoopers were long before we made the trek up here. But our new neighbors greatly exceeded my family's expectations. My wife had initially agreed to a "move" to the U.P. on one condition - that if she was not happy here, we would move back to Florida. She was going to give it a full year up here, just to make sure she gave it a fair shake. Well, after our first day here, she decided this is where she wants to spend the rest of her life. I did everything in my power to remind her that she had not experienced a single winter here. As I told her, if you think we got a lot of snow in April, just wait until you see what January and February are like! Understand that I was *not* trying to talk her out of wanting to live her permanently. I just didn't want her to get our kids and my hopes up for something that could literally change with the weather. Her mind was made up, though, and she insisted that this is where we were destined to live. That didn't hurt my feelings! Three years later, she (and the rest of us) are still just as obsessed with our "new" home as we were the day we arrived back in April of 2016. In fact, we were so impressed with our new neighbors and friends that I felt compelled to write a book about our experiences here. The book is titled: - Yooper Hospitality - "Northern Nice" in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It is available on Amazon in both eBook and paperback form. It's also available in the Meijer store in Marquette. It's technically in the "Michigan Fair" store (located inside Meijer). I will drop the Amazon link below for those who may be interested in the book. If you live near the Marquette area and would like me to sign your copy of my book, let me know and I'd be happy to meet up somewhere and do that for you. Thank you in advance, everybody! -Adam Reed (Link below) www.amazon.com/dp/179326533X/ref=nav_timeline_asin?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I just got done driving from sault st Marie to green Bay and had to go through the upper penninsula. I had no idea it was so remote up there. beautiful state, but was almost as remote feeling as the trip through ontario. I did see a cop helping someone changing a flat tire on their trailer. I have never seen a cop do that before.

I am a Yooper born n raised and I am now 67 yrs old. I grew up around Munising and have lived in Marquette and now Negaunee. And at the ripe old age of 67 I am STILL amazed at the U.P! The beauty, the sheer cleaniliness of the environment, the Northern Lighrs (!), and countless other things still keep me awestruck. Just the Great Lakes alone is enough to make me sit back and wonder why I was SO lucky to have been raised and still living here.

The UP is so nice, I'm from Detroit and it's like paradise and a half up there

I learned all of my wood skills, boating, shooting, and how to swing an axe from a proud son of Norway .michigan, and his brothers.

I absolutely agree with your explanation of a "Yooper"! PERFECT!

I lived in Iron Mountain for a year and a half. Best people in the country, best country in the country.

This is so beautiful! Born and raised in the Yoop~ Went and lived in a city for a year. THANK GOD...I came home~ LOVE this place......There is NO WHERE more stunning!

Seriously considering moving to the UP once I have some money saved up.

Being a Yooper is being a Packers fan😎👍🦌🎸🎼🇺🇸🇱🇹

UP Should be it's own state.

I love reading comments by people about how boring the UP must be, and how stupid they think it is. Hopefully they'll stay away so it remains the amazing gem of a place to live that it actually is. Yes people, the UP sucks, you'd totally hate it. :)

I'm a upper &I can servive off the wild without mordern living

Grew up in forest county wi which touches the UP, they're great people, just like the people in northern Wisconsin. One in the same.

Glad to see somewhere in the US has Cornish pasties

I’m from middle Tennessee but the yooper life seems really awesome. I like to fish every day, drink beer, watch hockey, smoke some good herb, be outdoors, and generally live a simple life

It means getting the jimmer a beer and a whiskey chaser

But you have deerflies, mosquitos and ticks, the unholy trinity! Btw my grandfather was born in Norway and my great grandfather worked in the Iron Mountain mine!

Living in the UP is the next thing to being in heaven. Life and living here is the appreciation of everything.

I love the UP and hope to live there one day.

I'm in the process of moving up there farming thank goodness. I'm in Ann Arbor now I want out....lol

I'm an out of state freshman at Umich and I'm learning more about the UP as some of my friends are from there

I visit between Manistique and Munising on a secluded lake in the forest twice a year. Nothing like the UP and I go in May and September. It truly is God's country. Especially like Escanaba. Have often thought though that the UP should be part of Wisconsin.

Ah ... da yooper 7 course meal - a pastie and a 6 pack,eh?

I really enjoy the UP environment whether it's the nature or the folks! :)

I live in the lower peninsula currently I have my whole life I've been to the UP a few times.

From South Carolina. Been in the U.P. a year. We visited and fell in love. Sold everything and moved here we have 2 seasons. Winter and Construction season. Manistique Michigan

Hmmm, 10 months of winter and 2 months of bad sledding with bugs galore !

And, to be an alcoholic, let's not forget that. Can out-drink an Irishman and still have enough of a head left to put a Russian down haha!

Look good Steve!!!

There are only two seasons in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan......swatting and shoveling.😁😁😁😁

My wife and I are considering retirement in the UP. We are from Tennessee and have no idea where to start as far as preparation for winter is concerned. I am from a very small town and grew up very poor. We both know all of our manners. Would we be welcome? Any tips on winter?

the up is awesome

I agree. Yooper is a mentality.

One must be born in da UP to be a Yooper......

I moved here in the fall of 2016 and never regretted it on account of the beauty of the landscape. I'll never go back to being a lousy troll again

Its means to be honest with each other & to be happy da U.P of Upper Michigan

Haloooo. Is this da Sodee dear camp?

I love yooper bars

I was in escanaba 4 weeks ago then i had to come home, i would like to be a yooper

well I live in the mitten!! so does that make me a looper?

Yooper a person or place in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

My Gpa, asked my do i know why the say U.P. cause U can Pee anywhere. Lol

Gods country.

@ 0:56...It's 104.7 WYKX...NOT 107.4!

The only reason I don't still live there is I can't deal with 10ft of snow every winter.

Gotta say though, all of these "what it means to be a Yooper," and not one stop from a single shop on Fudgie Lane on Portage in Da Soo? :P ah, c'mon now!

That's right, ay?

YOOPER? Ah NOPE - I'm Live`n in the Mitten! MUSKEGON beach front to be exact.

Sounds like my kind of people.

Very cool der eh

We're planning on making the move in a few years.

Not one of these people said "Yah, you betcha", nor did they sound like Marge Gunderson. What gives? I'm wondering if they all live there, but there not FROM there. Or is Marge's accent in the movie exaggerated?

They've appropriated the English Cornish pasty! 😵

Gods country and no gangs and drive by shootings and every thug crying racism

Black flies matter in da UP, eh.!

Makes me wanna go to Lehto's and get a Pay-stee...............Pay-stee,say it,dammit

To go to a lake and set off fireworks and drink beer

The UP is where any kind of service from a business comes to die. It’s not that the people are lazy, they would just rather be doing something else. If you expect to get friendly, efficient quality service; this place is not for you!

Ya too da pasty

ali kirby is hot

UP people are Superior.

If you’re up in say, Calumet, how long does it take to get ambulance service, if you need it? Answer: You won’t. You’ll just die before they get there.

That is the place where pasties were born don't cha know!!

Im a proud Yooper! Born and raiased!

Are there any Muslim "Yoopers"?

All that plus supporting the hell-holes of Detroit and Flint win your high taxes.

Lived in the UP for 7 years. I effing hate it.

Wild animals everywhere, a bar within two blocks of anywhere, crazy drunk bastards in the woods with loaded guns, snow up to your crotch, the air hurts your face. Its heaven. Its home. I am a yooper. 💙❄💙

I would like to marry a trooper. Must be semi self sustaining but with success. Must want a large brood of children, loves the outdoors and willing to accept 2 as a pre brood.

Been there boring.

THIS WASN'T FUNNY

I hate the lions. Hey, can I say that? I hate em.

I just wish people were more welcoming to other races. I get there's not a lot of diversity but ever since I moved here I haven't seen much tolerance. My son is constantly questioned why is he the only black boy in school. The teachers pass it off as innocent questions but it's not innocent when I have a 5 year old looking at his skin color and asking why was he made like this.

B.S. They're just like everyone else. These "attributes" are how every group sees itself. Yoopers are just as prone to ignorance and prejudice.

Crap. I've seen the U.P. turn from a clean, beautiful place to a haven of racists.