What THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU About Moving To Michigan | Honest Pros and Cons

Concerning road construction, it IS all the time. It's also everywhere, in all directions. The unofficial state flower is the reflective orange barrel.

No sharks, no hurricanes, limited tornados and still have the water life!!!

I'm 70 years old, live in Trenton and have lived in multiple cities in the downriver area my entire life. It took my adult life to appreciate Michigan. Love the 4 seasons along with the other pros you mentioned 😊

Insurance agent here: another CON you should have mentioned is the expensive auto insurance. Michigan is the most expensive in the country because we have Unlimited PIP Medical Coverage. And even if you buy down to $250K it’s still higher than almost every other state. Most states it’s between $5,000 and $25,000 in medical coverage if you get in an accident. But you don’t get the other benefits like OT/PT or lawn/snow service if you can’t do it cuz you were hurt in an accident.

And yet it's a far far better place to live and retire than the vast majority of other states.

I’m from MI but live in TX. I HATE that we lost our basement when moving to TX 😩 The people in TX are clueless about how awesome basements are.

Because of Whitmer, I will not be moving to MI, but I may visit.

Living in Chicago, where we often get the storms the day before Michigan, I find it funny when schools are closed in Michigan long before the weather even arrives. Chicago Public Schools seem to wait until there's at least a foot of snow WITH sub zero temps before they will close, while schools in Michigan won't take any chances and close even if it turns out to be a false alarm. I own a condo here and always intended to move back to Michigan one day to buy a house because the houses in Chicago cost much more. But Michigan's homes have really jumped up in price in recent years so I'm unsure of my plans now.

Michigan should eliminate the state income tax like Florida and Tennessee did in 2021.

Grew up in SW Michigan. 1998 I moved to Arizona. I'm sick of the heat. I'd move back to Michigan in a heartbeat now.

I moved to arkansas as kid. From up We go to school in 3ft snow😅. 1st day of school in arkansas. Maybe 0.010 of inch snow fell ! Snow day ! We had no idea what snow day was 😅

after 70 years in michigan i would say that this last winter was the warmest with hardly any snow that i have seen. michigan is decent if you could fly south with the birds in at least december, january, february. if you live in the U.P. forget what i just said. so the worst part is dreary, cold, wet, snow, cloudy months of winter. come back april 1st to november and it is ok.

It does not actually suck, then, it's more like the in between of Cali and the east coast

A lot of construction lol. Ive seen construction barrels on atv trails in the northern LP. Not to mention how they're working on every freeway in metro Detroit at the same time rn.

The taxes are killer

Fences - we don't need no stinkin' fences! Snow is not a "con" - learn to live with it and enjoy it.

Bro, love your vids. I do, but traffic out here is atrocious. I lived in Indiana, Fort Wayne area, and Ohio, greater Cleveland, and it's worse than both of those areas. I live on the far end of Novi, and it took me 45 plus minutes to get to the Dunkin that's also in Novi, due to construction and it being "rush hour", which is a great deal of the day. I'm sure it's less compared to most major metropolitan areas like, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, but it is way worse compared to nearby metro areas. Metro Detroit collectively is the second biggest metro area in the mid-west, and it shows in the traffic and extremely long commutes.

Been here since 1973!!! A lot has changed in the last 10 years alone especially. Traffic has grown hugely! This is strange since supposedly our population hasn’t really grown much. I’d like that explained. Home prices not the relative bargain they were for the last 30 years. And they’ve spread out much further into the countryside. Again I don’t understand all the new homes I see if the population is stagnate. Property taxes are very stiff for new buyers, I believe this is under stated nor understood. I think the COL is decent, although it depends where you are. Actually up north living is fairly expensive. Michigan is a great place overall. The cloudy dank winters do get a bit oppressive after a couple months,but June through oct can’t be beat. 😊

Go to Arizona , much lower taxes and much better roads.

Its not the ocean, exactly. Thank god. No sharks, no jelly fish, no crappy tides, no salt.