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Moving to Michigan?

Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice. (If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you.)

The Michigan state motto is an apt one. Divided by the straits of Mackinak, which link Lake Huron with Lake Michigan, the Upper and Lower Peninsulas are very different in many ways – but terribly pleasant. The beaches, dunes and cliffs that line the longest freshwater shoreline in the world rival the most picturesque ocean fronts in the West, while outside Detroit the towns range from sleepy clapboard hamlets to elegant university towns that would not be out of place on the East Coast. The Claw (upper) is connected to the Mitten (lower) by the five mile Mackinak Bridge. This has given residents of the southern part the nickname “Trolls” - because they live under the bridge. A number of illustrious people have managed to ignore the name-calling, including Francis Ford Coppola, Magic Johnson, Diana Ross and Robin Williams.

French explorers, who arrived in the mid-seventeenth century, built successful trading relationships with the Algonquian peoples who inhabited the area. The French built sailing ships to navigate the lakes and forts along the shore. Detroit was established in 1701 and fast became an important outpost for the fur trade. Colonisation proceeded peacefully until the advent of the British in 1763. Governor Henry Hamilton established alliances with the Indians during the War of Independence, paying them to bring in physical evidence of their raids on the American settlers. He became known as the “Hair Buyer of Detroit” because he advocated taking scalps rather than prisoners. Long after the war was won and Hamilton had been repatriated, the Lakes remained a battle front between the old and new powers. Possession of the land passed between British Canada and the young US until 1812, when it became American for good. After that, Michigan quarrelled with neighbouring Ohio over various tracts of land for another twenty years. It finally became a state in 1837.

The Upper Peninsula, originally thought to be valueless, was discovered to hold valuable iron, copper and lumber resources and settlers flocked in ever greater numbers. The Wolverine State grew richer and richer. When Henry Ford established his first automobile plant in Highfield Park, the future seemed secure. Detroit became the car capital of the United States, a boomtown whose population kept increasing. In fact, it doubled in the 1950s, and the ghettos were born. In the 1960s, as the industry began to suffer, poor workers were unceremoniously dumped, sparking a conflict that culminated in the bloody riots of July 1967. More than forty people died and 1,300 buildings were destroyed. Today, Detroit continues to suffer along with the rest of the state – Michigan had one of the highest unemployment rates in the country before the financial crisis and with the collapse of General Automobiles, things are getting worse. Having been one of the states that gave Barack Obama the Presidency, its people have high expectations of the next four years. Scarred and bruised, it still offers a wide range of cultural diversions as well as the incomparable scenery: residents hope that tourism will continue will pick up the slack where the automobile industry has failed them. The aforementioned shorelines border four of the five Great Lakes.

Vast and wild, the Claw is dotted with landmarks. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore has a splendid array of multicoloured cliffs, gouged out by rain, ice and snow into natural arches and columns. Paradise is a small village carved out of the forest, hidden away between the ultramarine lakes of the north. Just ten miles away is glorious Taqhuamenon Falls State Park, where Hiawatha built his canoe in Longfellow’s epic. The rough, broken Keeweehaw Peninsula appears desolate and broken, particularly in the freezing winters, but the dramatic crags and precipices make this ideal driving territory.

The Mitten is warmer and less picturesque, its greatest attractions the thriving arts scene in Detroit and Ann Arbor, whose brightly painted buildings offer all that you would hope of a college town. Breakfast food fanatics might be amused by Kellogg’s Cereal City USA in Battle Creek – further out along Lake Michigan are a number of charming villages that offer great boating and hiking. Traverse is wonderful in May, when the cherry orchards that surround the city bloom in a pink, heady display that rivals the ancient parks of Kyoto.

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