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Ranked 1st best city in Michigan
"Nice area and only getting nicer!"
- ghita71
Michigan Ave is the heart of Dearborn. Everything from stores, restaurants, and city buildings (such as City Hall or the Dearborn Preforming Arts Center) is located on this street. It's known as the...
Ranked 2nd best city in Michigan
"Great for families"
- michelle88702
Sterling Heights is a great city for families. There are always big city events like Sterling Fest in the summer and the big event in the winter. At the holiday event there is entertainment, sleigh ri...
Ranked 3rd best city in Michigan
"...25 miles surrounded by reality"
- missycaulk
Fun for young and old, rated top place to retire by AARP. Great medical facilities with University of Michigan and St. Joe's Mercy Hospitals.
The U of M. with sports, art, business and engineering....
Ranked 4th best city in Michigan
"A Great School and So Much More"
- marymfrederick
This is where it's at! You have a top ranked school with many different programs to offer. You have a nice surrounding area for students and those that want to live in a hot spot of town. You have res...
Ranked 5th best city in Michigan
"good"
- brdshort1
nice place to live quiet street affordable homes with in walking distance to schools and stores really no crime to speak of
Ranked 6th best city in Michigan
"Livonia – Home to the Beautiful Rosedale Gardens Historic Di..."
- herbivorehippie
Although Livonia is a city that certainly has it all, few people even know that the Rosedale Gardens Historic District even exists. Wooden houses with broad porches that have been bricked, sit in neat...
Unranked Cities
"Eastpointe – A High Crime Area"
- herbivorehippie
Some people will say that Eastpointe is worse than Detroit when it comes to crime. Sure, maybe there are not blocks of abandoned houses and thousands of unchained dogs running the streets, but Eastpoi...
"Allegan – Offering a Beautiful Waterfront Plaza"
- herbivorehippie
It is nearly impossible to visit Allegan and not fall in love with the area. Although an extremely small city with less than 5,000 residents, this may be the perfect place to call home. The downtown a...
"Fenton – A Quiet Community"
- herbivorehippie
Fenton is an older, professional city. There are a lot of retirees living here as well as second and third generation families, with good reason. People who grow up here are more than happy for their...
"Bay City – Where Everything is Cause for Celebration"
- herbivorehippie
If you are looking for a city that offers countless celebrations and festivals, Bay City is it! It seems as though every time you turn around, residents are gathering to have some fun. Just a few of t...
"great road for traveling east or west through the northern s..."
- disneytraveler
Metro Parkway is also known as 16 mile road, and also changes names as you travel through different cities. It becomes Big Beaver in Troy and Quarton road further west. This road is several lanes wi...
"Great Growing Neighborhood"
- tmuka
This subdivision is just a few years old and it still being built up. It's a beautiful area surrounded by wooded areas and accompanying creatures, deer, etc... Nice landscaping and welcoming black i...
"Spotlight on Grandville "
- JohnDeVries
The City of Grandville has a "Charting New Courses" slogan. Their core valuels are Faith, Family, Honesty, Caring, Respect, and Responsibility.
In 2008, Grandville celebrated it's 75th anniversary...
"Good Memories but Stinky!!"
- shanaeb
I have many great memories from this street, with my grandparents, like that old grocery store that had an awful meat smell( I never figured out where that came from). Anyway, it had great things it w...
"Pretty close to small town heaven"
- TheMagpie
Our neighborhood is close knit and quiet yet only two blocks from the downtown district. Shopping is close. The schools are great. There is a recycling program. There is next to no crime and the ar...
"Lake Orion – Where a Dragon Lives in the Water"
- herbivorehippie
A prank over a century ago started a legend that a dragon lives in the water. Of course, no one who lives here is afraid to indulge. However, you will want to register your rowing team in the “Dragon...
"Spotlight on Hudsonville "
- JohnDeVries
The City of Hudsonville is called “Michigan’s Salad Bowl” due to its early trucking and farming activities.
It was named after Homer E. Hudson, who moved here in 1848. The Hughes family owned the l...
"Keego Harbor – Surprisingly Friendly"
- herbivorehippie
Keego Harbor is really in a fantastic central location. It is a small city with a ton of waterfront property on Cass Lake, and it is minutes away from West Bloomfield Twp., Waterford and Pontiac. If y...
"Bear Lake – National and State Forests in Your Backyard"
- herbivorehippie
For some, the location of Bear Lake is a dream come true. What could possibly be better than having constant access to not one but two major parks? Both Pere Marquette State Forest and Manistee Nation...
"Bellevue – It Just Feels Like Home"
- herbivorehippie
From long wooden walkways to a hand painted welcome sign to natural moss-covered ponds, there is a lot of beauty to drink in when you first visit Bellevue. This is the type of small community where yo...