[MarMema]

We live 6 hours north of Detroit on pristine acreage between two blue ribbon trout streams. We have a private well.
Northern Michigan is paradise. We shopped hard all over the country before deciding to come here and have been celebrating our wisdom ever since.
We were able to pay cash for our bungalow with a three season porch
in the middle of beautiful pine jack forest with the most colorful
wildlife I have ever seen.
Great Lakes about an hour away in three directions. The Upper Peninsula just a tad further north. Northern Lights from the bedroom window. Amazing food and people. Small town conservatives and rifles in the grocery store on the guy next to you. Life here is heaven.

[Night Hides Not]

Good for you. I learned quite a bit about your state when I was doing contract work for Citi about 10 years ago, in the area of property taxes.

I was not pleased when I was assigned the state, because the two previous contractors working Michigan were fired, for lack of output. I dived in anyway, and lived to tell the tale. I explained Michigan to my coworkers in this way: imagine that every HOA in Texas had taxing authority. lol