You missed the best city in Michigan, Traverse City. Located in northwest Michigan on Grand Traverse Bay off of Lake Michigan. Beautiful water, entertainment, boating, good beaches on the bay, great shopping on main street downtown to just walk around, nearby is world class Interlochen Arts Acedemy for classical music that students come from all over the world to study music and the arts, located on Green Lake.

Absolutely love living in Downtown Detroit now, been here 12 years, so much to do , whether it’s pro sports, theater, museums , numerous entertainments, fabulous biking and walking and biking trails, Belle Isle, Beautiful riverfront, (nominated as number one in the nation the past two years by USA today, ) and wonderful neighbors of all types. We have a beautiful condo high up in the air overlooking the city, the night view with all the lights on is spectacular and everyone visiting just marvels at it. We spend a great deal of every day where the weather is decent outside doing things and walking, no crazy car commuting to work or socially.

I grew up 40 min west of midland. Beautiful state, especially in the fall. I miss it badly. I need to get out of hurricane country.

I love Michigan, my home state. I am hoping to visit again soon

It's amazing how the smallest cities in Michigan are the best places to live

I've been to Bellevue Michigan and I loved it ❤️ hope they show it on this Good places to live ❣️❣️ I'd live in Bellevue bc it looks like a great little town to make movies. And it reminds me of going into the future 😘

they need to add about 25-40%to the stated home prices

This is such BS/I live in a small town in Michigan where the last murder was a traffic death and the homes all start at 300K and the best schools in the state of Michigan. So this is an opinion not actual fact.

Some of these are nice, but prices of homes are understated in many of those areas. And some really nice communities not mentioned at all.

Flint. Real estate is unbelievably affordable. We're talking 3 to 4 bedroom houses for $50,000.

Haha! You never got out of the cities! You do not know Michigan at all! This is a good guide for city people to find a good city.

As with any 'best of...' lists, this is subjective. I'm in west Michigan, and basically couldn't recommend any of these places. Everyone's tastes are different.

Thanks. You helped me decide where to make my next home. 🙂

Ann Arbor homes are not the average $250k. This is wrong information. Average is around $450k & up. It's one of the most expensive township of Michigan because of its proximity to the University. Well paid professors & administrators of the University lived in this area. My family lives in Brighton MI. which is close to Ann Arbor.

The people who made this list have obviously never been to small towns in Michigan.

I grew up in Michigan and if you have some eskimo your DNA you'll do fine, otherwise the winters will wear you out.

I thought Traverse City would be included in this list.

For me, I’ll take Traverse City, Holland, Grand Haven, Petoskey, South Haven, Copper Harbor, Ludington over the named Detroit burbs any day

I guess that Northern Michigan doesn’t count.

I have lived in Beverly Hills, MI for39 years and can guarantee not a single shot in the video is in Bevrly Hills. Most of the commentary is also false.

Does anyone in here who IS from Michigan, happen to know if FERNDALE would be a nice livable place for average single people (without families)? How is public transportation over there? Is getting around town gonna be OK even like for people who don't own a car? I am on a fixed income, and do not plan on commuting to Detroit much. I just wanna live in a nice safe quiet neighborhood all alone by myself; that is close proximity to basic amenities like grocery shopping, general stores, and public transportation. Absolutely DO NOT plan on raising a family anytime soon. Just lookin' to rent or buy a small home to live ALONE in peace, and possibly even RETIRE there. What is your advice or opinions on this? 🤔

Honorable Mentions: Saugatuck and South Haven

Pretty much all east Michigan besides Grand Rapids. West Michigan has way better better living

Kind of weird seeing my childhood school in a shot.

Not a single town mentioned north of Clare......fine. Continue not mentioning Traverse City. 😉

Great you highlight all the worst in Michigan. There is a lot more to Michigan than the Detroit area. Guess crowding and crime are high on your list of things you love.

The average house price in Ann Arbor is more than $250K. Those houses shown in the video are even more than that.

You missed Grosse Point and Grosse Point Farms

The freaking people's republic of Ann Arbor????? Are you kidding me? To hell with this channel and Ann arbor

At least they got number 1 Ann Arbor. My hometown

Going into the woods in the summer is a first class nightmare due to all of the horrible biting bugs and scads of pricker plants and sand burs all over the place.

So glad several towns in Oakland County were included. What about Orchard Lake?

Honestly surprised Munith and Stockbridge aren't on this list. They are very nice towns, and everyone is friendly. No crime ever happens. I should know because I live in Munith. Nothing crime-related ever happens. Just peaceful here. But, of course, these towns don't have much popularity, so why would they be here?

Midland is nice.

As a realtor in Ann Arbor, I can say buying a home here for 250k is virtually an impossibility. Vacant lots, if you can find one, go for 40Ok-500k. Ridiculous video.

Great video, but Novi isn't between Detroit and Ann Arbor, Novi is North West of Detroit and Ann Arbor is South West of Detroit, I live literally 5 min from Novi, in West Bloomfield

How about the west side of Michigan that is way better than these?

🤣😂🤣Terrible list! Malls, Chain Restaurants, Traffic. Pollution . Almost every town you named is in Oakland County. Michigan is so beautiful. An outdoor Paradise. You didn’t name one town on any of our Great Lakes or near our National Forests or in the UP. Here are really the best places to live in Michigan. Saugatuck Charlevoix Ludington Gaylord Houghton (Up) Port Austin Cadillac Traverse City Grand Heaven Paradise (UP)

As a life long Michigan resident, I can tell you this was a swing and a miss.

Im from okemos far from 2 in the state Treavse city Petoskey Manisetee Ludington Grand heaven Holland South heaven Kalamazoo Rockford Grand rapids

How to say you are not from michigan without saying you are not from michigan. No one wants to live in those towns.

You can't even understand the speaker.🤔

You forgot about west Bloomfield probably the best city to live in Michigan but also very expensive

Don't forget to tell them about the six months of cold winter

You should rename your video of the 10 best places to live in southern Michigan

Where is Dearborn? It should be on this list and the housing prices need to be almost doubled...

One cold place to live .

I would vote that Rochester is much better than Troy or Farmington Hills. Not sure why it was left off this list.

Obviously written by a troll. Trolls live below the bridge.

Dearborn is cool

Um FYI housing is way more then what she’s saying. I’ve lived in Michigan my whole life and I want a nice house for the prices. It sounds like those cities are paying for this BS commercial. Housing is high and so is the crime.

Anyone familiar with the town called Gladwin? If so what’s it like? Thanks!

Stats are 2019.

You can meet lots of criminals in Ann Arbor!

Is Edwardsburg too small to put in any list…

Can you tell me the exact location of midland

where Dearborn at

Surprised they ain't mention Flint on here

Seems like these folks are addicted to suburbs. Nothing wrong with that, if that's what you're looking for. I don't see much difference between the Detroit suburbs, except maybe the affluence decreasing and crime increasing as you get closer to Detroit. But they could have lumped all those together and added more outstate cities. Traverse City, Petoskey, Cadilac, Alpena, Cheboygan, Marquette.....

I live in one of these cities, could not live in a better place, very conservative, but with this epidemic of crime and lawlessness sweeping our country, wide open borders, criminal illegals being invited in by the tens of millions, just a matter of time, it will be here, our governor is actively trying to move Michigan to a nobody goes to jail state and defunding the cops. We are a foster home, and we were just talking about getting locks on our home.

Prices has doubled since this video!

Ive lived here all my life. Now, we’re as bad as California. Don’t come to one of the bluest states in America!

Housing costs on this Video very out of date. More like double what is stated.

Good wages ???? LOL !

Don’t use this list if you would move to michigan, please

What a waste of time, half the city’s are metro Detroit. Detroit is a come-back place, and the “left disaster” has passed it by, but you missed all of the non-metro towns (thank goodness)

Correction: top 10 places to live outside of Detroit. You know Michigan is more than Detroit right?

WHY NOT SHOW OFF THE BEST FIRST AID DISTRICTS

Whoever did this video never spent much time in Michigan.

This video is emblematic of the kind of sloppy, lazy work that seems to be spreading like wildfire on KZfaq. The narration is apparently robotic, full of mispronunciations, both of common words like steady and of cities like Detroit and Novi. Population and unemployment figures are often wildly wrong (Ann Arbor's population is far greater than 16,000). This is just clickbait, done with a kind of cynical disregard for anything resembling real knowledge of the place they're describing.

Number 1 ... anywhere except Michigan!

The person who made this video must never have visited Michigan, there is not any of these cities listed that would rate in the top ten.

I wouldn't recommend ANY of these places and I grew up in Flint.

Worst list ever, suburban communities filled with drywall barns and An Arbor..

The southeast corner isn't the nicest place to live in Michigan...

I would love to but you guys have some crazy tornadoes

Michigan sucks 8 months out of the year

just get away from the city ghettos and your good! love my state not my governor though

Chinese?…..