How's Michigan's upper peninsula like? I recently noticed it existed

How's Michigan's upper peninsula like? I recently noticed it existed

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Its a marsh.

They talk like Canadians and embrace everything Wisconsin.

It's one of the most sparsely populated places in the US. Trees, trees, trees, and huge freshwater seas. The western part of the UP is beautiful, with small, lush mountains and hidden lakes. Also, big Finnish presence.

A lot of severe alcoholism. People just hold up in their tiny local bars and drink constantly.

734-fag here.

Cold, lots of trees, lots of drugs and alcohol and lots of guns. More guns than people by far.

Not too bad really.
Been to Escanaba, Iron Mountain, etc.

any correlation to what said?

Michigan is the best state.

All true.

It's the most Canadian part of America.

Because it is surrounded by three huge inland freshwater oceans it's environment is closer to Alaska's.

There are only a 100,000 people living up there, with a large Finnish presence in the "thumb" area.

An interesting note is that Finns are lower on the racial totem pole that the local American Indian population

Yes, it's sparsely populated because it's a place people go to hide from the world and slowly die

Its beautiful man, I live in the middle of the state going to school at MSU. I go camping in the UP all the time though because of all the wilderness up there. Check out tahquamenon falls, pictured rocks, and Mackinac island.

Really, Michigan in its entirety is such a beautiful place. I love my state so so much, the winters are brutal and long, but the summers, falls, and springs are worth it all.

U-M grad here... I.... agree... with... ugh, you.

whoa thanks for confirming mr. super cool tripcode user you have such valuable input!

It's nice, they have a ton of fins.

Mosquitos and black flies.

Winters are weird. There is a stretch near US2 that gets milder winters than some of the LP.

You learn to stock up on everything.

You will end up owning two boats, six snow machines and a dozen chainsaws. There will be four derelict cars on your property, two of which will have bullet holes.
One will likely be a pickup, with a bed full of Busch cans.

Roadkill will be a regular part of your diet. As will be fish. Lots and lots of fish. And beer.

Respect fellow spartan. I just graduated last saturday.

Northern michigan is not a place for those prone to depression. If your life is good though, its beautiful.

Do you know how many Native Americans were killed just so you could enjoy yourself in that paradise?

Is it Tech or Northern that has the highest suicide rate in the U.S?

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Even the northern part of the lower peninsula is like that.

I would guess Michigan Tech, my uncle went there. When he attended the ratio of men to women was 8 to 1... and you can bet that 1 woman was not a looker. Great engineering school though.

Not enough if they're still bitching on the internet.

Eh, for women go to WMU, FSU or GVSU.

>tfw never gone to an MSU party.

>Do you know how many Native Americans were killed just so you could enjoy yourself in that paradise?

The Upper Penisula's population was bleached.com out

It's great, we won that shit in a war with Ohio.

Oh it's real cool. Got some really nice beaches where you can camp. The trees come up right to the shoreline and you can set up a tent amidst them. Love it.

you poor soul...

I know, I'm probably too old now, but WMU and UM parties were pretty amazing...

The upper peninsula is what Michigan traded for Toledo. I think Ohio lost on that deal

>mfw when u cant spell penisula without sayin penisula

Michigan state is renowned for its women, its kind of uncanny actually... The women that go here are all so beautiful. Have you ever come to East Lansing for a UM/MSU game?? You need to come next year if not.

Initial colonization was by Frenchmen, so they adopted the bleaching method instead of genocide. Frenchmen in general were very very hungry for exotic women all over the world.

Maybe I'll go to EL next year for the UM/MSU game, but I'm a UM fan so... not sure.

spain too, but if I met incan women with those huge hips I would bruh

not enough

Certainly were lucky men in a certain way

Lots of mining. Lots of logging. Lots of...casinos.

Mostly the UP is used for camping and other outdoor recreational activities. I used to work in a call center that processed state park reservations and the UP is basically a camper's wet dream.

I wouldn't choose to live there though.

I dunno, I know a lot of guys from Tech and they didn't talk about the suicide rate

I lived in Sault st Marie for a a bit. I saw a kid frozen like a plank during the 6 months after the first snow, it kept snowing for another two months.
The western half can be a bit lonely and depressing but anything east of Newberry will make you want to suck start a shotgun real fast.

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filled with either mosquitoes or snow, depending on the season

The people there are very friendly and the scenery is pretty nice too. 9/10 would visit again.

totally. toledo is a hellhole

Wisconsinite here. The upper peninsula is cold, thickly forested, and sparsely populated. My friend lives in Newbury, the biggest town in its county. Population = like 1200. Beautiful forests though, mang.

should have a very tiny "nerd" square inside "ghetto"

"suicidally depressed nerd virgins, foreign medical students, and black people that will mug you" is way more accurate, but it would never fit

you would be totally welcome. sure we engage in bantz but at the end of the day everyone gets drunk.

You forgot the part that it's crawling with wolves and alcoholism.

Upper Penisula's Indian population are knwon as Chippewa/Ojibwe or their new name Anishinaabe.

They threw the Sioux of the Great Lakes area and were mentioned in the Sup Forums favorite clip:

youtu.be/H1y_0NfhF9c

A lot of Euchre is played there. It's a great game desu

Upper Michigan toad reporting in, out of Marquette. typical back water rural area meth, guns, low crime.. too much fucking snow, not enough deaths, everybody knows someone that is related to you and a lot of close cult like churches linger between towns with devote "familys"... don't come while its winter

From ESPN, next year is in Ann Arbor, but maybe someday I'll check of EL.

If it was part of Wisconsin, Trump wouldn't have won Michigan

I am a student at Michigan Tech, it's in the middle of the rabbits ear. It's mostly dudes studying engineering. We have crazy winters with an average snowfall of 218 inches a year.

Some kid just killed himself last month. The school never said anything, I just heard if from another student. I guess they are afraid of a chain reaction.

Whats the autism and suicide rates there? Do they enjoy memes and 2d?

It's cold as fuck up there, lower Michigan user here. Michigan has best described as a supermodel with Herpes(Detroit).

It's beautiful, but don't tell anyone. Lake Superior is too cold to swim in, but inland lakes abound and are good for swimming. I once took a bath in a river up there. Michigan Tech is up there, one of the finest engineering schools in the world, but not many women. It's underpopulated and a lot of people have left to work in lower peninsula.

Mid-Michigan here, I'll never move further north than the pinkie, because it's too sparse up there but the prettiest place alive, pic related. Also look up Drummond Island, awesome place to spend a weekend and technically no police department (there is a border patrol office).

Get to a bar early, pregame and then head over to the band warmups, lots of fun to watch.

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An order of magnitude greater than the normal population.

Immense respect to you, Spartan-fag. Good luck next year.

Wisconsinite here. Fuck off, you subhuman Michigan trash.

What's interesting is Marquette county votes blue because of government employees and handouts (because everyone is poor in the UP).

Baraga county which features a Indian reservation votes red.

What the fuck are you talking about? The thumb is in the lower peninsula and there are no more Finns there than there are other peoples that came from Europe. Lots of miners came from Cornwall, England and Somerset too. That is how the Pasty came to be part of the U.P.'s diet, it was brought over by the Cornish miners. Your not even from MI so shut up.

I'm a different Spartan, raised by Umich grads and kept out 10 years back during the "points system" bullshit so I ended up going green. Even if the football season was an abortion, and Izzo's team is shitty this year I can enjoy Harbaugh embarassing the south and the Lions. Besides it's important to remember one thing: we're not Ohio.

Hahaha you said snow machines (he means snowmobiles). Fucking Yoopers.

When whites first came to this state they would stand back and watch the natives engage in great battles amongst themselves. They were killing each other long before whites showed u. Read a book once in a while.

>we're not Ohio

Damn right.

sounds like Lovecraft, I wish I could visit places like that sometime

SE michigan here

went to mackinac island in august, had to wear a damn jacket cause it drops to 50 once you're over the water on the ferry to get there, christ, even in the middle of fucking august

very pretty, though

We're great.

Fuck you.
Fuck you.
Finnish? If not - fuck you.
Fuck you.
Pal!
Pal!Fuck you.
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We just got a nip here and I fucked her.
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Fuck you.
Pal(ish)!

triggered fucking little yooper

Good luck buddy. It's a tough school. My friend, a Valedictorian and smartest kid in my school, dropped out after one year.

I live in the middle of the tumb sticking off the top. Dont talk about us.... this little corner of the universe has been forgotten by history and we like it that way. when the shit hits the fan we literally wont notice. btw that thumb gets 350 INCES OF SNOW

>wear a damn jacket cause it drops to 50 once
>not clearing your driveway in a t-shirt this afternoon in 12* weather
Maybe I'm just too old and cranky but 50 is warm and comfy weather.

Its absolute fucking paradise and you can make $24/hour metal detecting the county roads which are made out of spent mine tailins back from when america used to build and mine shit

Ah yes Baraga the alcoholic rehab place is there.

Fuck off we're full

yes baraga is full of timber niggers. drugs are in such high demand that they are more expensive then in prison. not kidding

In Minnesota you get around 10 tonnes of Ladybugs outside your window around August month.

I imagine it's sort of the same deal in that peninsula.

why is one county just pilots

>yfw there could be yooperfags in this very thread

Houghton? My friend goes to Michigan Tech

Hi user, Accepted Applicant here. Have I made a mistake choosing Tech? I'll be majoring in Mechanical Engineering

How's Okinawa marine?

Dunno m8, how's that moose your mother fucked last night?

If you enjoy isolation , it's pretty awesome.

I'd retire in the up, Montana or Idaho. The winters are not for the squeamish, though. It's like Canada with out all the faggots.

that's pretty much the global headquarters of the US airforce, outside of the pentagon.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright-Patterson_Air_Force_Base

Empty, unmolested, forested, rocky, beautiful, littered with old mining town remnants, shitty houses, and boarded up buildings.

No industry, no jobs, nobody seems to care though. I watched my cousin roof a 600 sq foot cabin. It took him 3 weeks and he spent most of it sitting on the roof drinking beer looking into the lake with a few friends.

My family immigrated there (from Finland) and worked mining jobs. I live down south now near Detroit because I like making money.

There is a short time each year where the UP is a paradise. The rest are black fly/mosquite rape zone or snow rape.

Yeah uhh, that's not a thumb. The thumb is in the lower peninsula and is part of the mitten. You will have to find a different appendage as your descriptive title.

I've been there a few times... its boring and not worth discussing but if Al Gore's global warming happening actually happens my plan is to open for-profit refugee camps there because the land is worthless and the water is plentiful.

You can come live there.

America's snowniggers

As someone who lives in Soo Ontario, I can confirm this

yeah, 50 is not that bad, I lived here all my life

but when it's 90 out and you go on a boat and it drops 40 fucking degrees, then 50 feels freezing as fuck

313 here, if it not for U of M id be up there already

Jesus Christ how horrifying.

Nice, maybe we'll meet on the two track one day. Small man disease detected.

Jesus Christ...the left hand is held over the right hand in a perpendicular manner...hence the thumb of the left hand.

Sorry to hear about your friend, it's an all too farmiliar occurance up here. Best of luck to him.