Michigan, Anyone?

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Guitarist

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Do you know anything about living there? A friend of mine lives near Midland and wants me to move there. I found a couple of nice-looking apartment communities online.

Then I did a Google map search and saw the satellite views of the Dow plant. My friend said, Oh, yeah, Dow is big and it has a chemical-leak warning alert system.

The only industrial plants I've ever lived near were a paper mill and a cast-iron pipe company and I wasn't near them long.

Can any of you offer any feedback about living in a town that has chemical-leak warning plans and huge vats and sludge ponds and pipes running over the roadways? I mean, yeah, not far from my neighborhood I've heard of a drug dealer getting shot, and other crimes going on, and if I moved to the beach I would have hurricanes to think about, so no place is "safe," but is it just a matter of what you're used to? I used to live in Tornado Alley, but I felt safer there than I would have in an earthquake-prone area.
 

I lived in Michigan a total of 32 years but haven't lived there since 1990. Don't know anything about Midland. Personally if I was going to choose a place to move to in the US I'd probably pick the coast of NC or SC. If I had tons of money I'd pick the coast of central California.
 
Thanks for your feedback, everyone! One website I saw listed Midland as the #1 town to live in, in Michigan, but I'm getting the feeling that's not saying much. It's a company town, and that's sort of off-putting too, to me.
 
There are some very nice towns in Michigan. Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Plymouth, Northville, some towns on Lake Michigan.
 
I have lived here for 64 years great place to be. Midland is a nice city with most everything you need, also it is 100 miles away from Detroit. snow we have that, you get used to it, cold, put a logon the fire ......we have no creepy
 

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