17 Reasons Why You Should Never Visit Michigan

There’s always that one particular place in every country that sticks out like a porcupine at a nudist’s colony. You have your own reasons not to visit Michigan. None of them positive. Here’s ours:

1. Consider this a PSA to everyone thinking about visiting Michigan: Don’t.

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Grand Portal Point, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Lake Superior
 
2. Going there could not be a more colossally dumb idea.

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Forest road
 
3. It’s not the type of place you’d want to go to unwind.

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Flickr: Leon Reed

Needle Rock, Mackinac Island
 
4. Nothing ever happens there, apparently.

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Flickr: Wes Iversen

“Balloon Glow”, Frankenmuth
 
5. Do the locals just take up knitting to entertain themselves? I wonder.

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Diving in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Lake Huron
 
6. They have just given up on trying to make the place attractive to visitors.

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Mackinac Island
 
7. It’s a hopeless case anyway.

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Little Carp River, Porcupine Mountain State Park
 
8. Even the tourist sights are simply underwhelming.

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Flickr: Stephen Strubel

Mackinac Bridge
 
9. The state has nothing going for it, unfortunately.

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Windmill Island, City of Holland
 
10. Michigan is like the ugly cousin that never got married.

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Isle Royale, Lake Superior
 
11. It would be a challenge to find anything even remotely attractive in this place.

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Flickr: John McCormick

Eagle Harbor Lighthouse,Eagle Harbor
 

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12. I mean, seriously.

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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
 
13. “Plain” would be an understatement.

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Ann Arbor
 
14. What is there to see apart from shrubbery?

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Porcupine Mountains Waterfall
 
15. Do they know what year it is? Do they even live in the 21st century?

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Downtown Detroit
 
16. To tell you frankly, Michigan is just a waste of real estate.

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Grand Sable Dunes, Pictured Rocks National Lake
 
17. Give it a pass. You won’t miss anything.

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“Aurora Borealis” seen from Headlands Park, Mackinaw City

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