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!!!

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.

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 😊

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.

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

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

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 😅

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.

The taxes are killer

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.

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.

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.

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

I agree with u I was born here. But I agree with u.

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

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. 😊

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

Michigan and if I could afford it, Ieave to get away from all the corruption and high crime is spreading out more and more. Never live in a big city here or close. Moved from nice areas gone ghetto fast.

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.

michigan dont have a low cost of living

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

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

All of you must love the car insurance ridiculous prices, the gas prices and of course the way grocery prices are three times what they were. How will they ever go down when no one acknowledges them

Holy panel gaps Paul. Maybe it's time to service the Porsche?

my lake is gone wixom lake. Beaverton area baycity. housing is cheap because the lake is a river small river people are abandoning these once lake homes, look like something from the apocalypse, 40 miles of lakes gone

Detroit it's entire history has had the worst transit system of any metro city of its size.

trenton michigan, basements,fences, ;)

wht lies Michihan is not the 14th cheapest state in the us

VIRGINIA LOL CANT WAIT TO MOVE

Help me, Paul! You're my only hope! I'm moving my 76yo mother and self, both considered retired, back home to Michigan after 30+ years. We want to live in an old (and cheap, needs work kind of place) house or cabin in the woods...but the reports about certain illegal activities in the trees are kind of scaring us out of that. We don't know which area to move into -- we just know we want to live far enough away from the family so that they have to actually plan ahead to visit.😆 Which is the greater Detroit area. In addition, Mom doesn't want to live anywhere in SW Michigan (?given me no logical explanation?) and I'm afraid to move anywhere too politically...um...divided. I'm thinking purple and neutral and calm. We're coming from Florida.🙄 Since neither of us have been home for decades we're having trouble separating fact from rumor. We know we probably can't go too rural for reasons mentioned and smaller cities that haven't yet been weaponized are perfectly fine. I'm making us sound crazier than we actually are. I am aware of that.😅 TL;DR Upper or lower doesn't matter; woodsy, cheap and safe are the priorities. Any chance there's a region with our name on it?

Detroit Michigan LEAVING 1967 riot lost 50% of white people i was there

Better than California or New York

Construction, Car destroying salt.. Liberals.. Detroit/Flint/Saginaw are ghetto.. Snow is one thing but 5 months of cold and grey winter is the worst.. Gas is expensive, flat and boring terrain, roads suck.... Tons of taxes and expensive car insurance.. I can't wait to move out down south..

"$500,000-$1,000,000 doesn't go as far as you think in Michigan" laughs in Californian

Ohio -> Michigan specificity Detroit. Coming from Dayton. Trust me Dayton is worse than Detroit

I've lived in Michigan for 67 years now. The 2 worst things about Michigan are Detroit (Don't go there)and its governor. FGW

Let's think a minute. The west, fire, earthquake, landslides, and droughts. East coast, those pesky Hurricanes, that can rearrange your life. The mid west, oh yeah. Those lovely tornadoes. God's way of getting a good laugh. So you thought you could do that? Ha ha! Droughts that challenge your Ingenuity.

The headlines on your videos make Detroit and all of Michigan look horrible. If I was considering moving there I would never even watch the vid after reading the headline..Why do you do that?? It seems like you are selling things in MI but you tell people how horrible it is before they can view the "information" - You're advertising it to be a very bad bad place to go or live...

Don't move to Michigan. You won't like it... The people aren't very friendly.