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> Up north, in Grand Rapids Do people in Michigan refer to Grand Rapids as "up north"? Doesn't look like it on the map. Sure it's a little bit north of Detroit
by mlinksva 5y ago
> Up north, in Grand Rapids
Do people in Michigan refer to Grand Rapids as "up north"? Doesn't look like it on the map. Sure it's a little bit north of Detroit, but a lot to the west.
I have zero Michigan connection and near zero knowledge, but the tech thing there that has always struck me as being cool is indeed pretty far north, https://www.appropedia.org/Category:MOST https://www.appropedia.org/Category:MOST at Michigan Tech.
- ashtonbaker 5y agoIt's a perennial topic of debate to define the borders of Up North. Growing up in Bay City, the border was generally agreed to be Clare - or Tawas if following the coast. It was a source of some amusement to learn that many Detroit residents considered Bay City to be Up North. The source of the confusion is that Up North is actually shorthand for "my family's favorite vacation spot". There are some rules to the classification - Traverse City and Charlevoix are unambiguously Up North for example, and the Upper Peninsula is so utterly North that the designation "Up North" can seem a bit ridiculous, so it gets its own term - The U.P. Anyway, this is all to say that no one has ever in the history of Michigan referred to Grand Rapids as "Up North". Certainly not on a latitudinal argument. But the author appears to be from Chicago, so perhaps it's her family's personal Up North.
- pests 5y agoBorn and raised in Metro Detroit. Grand Rapids is def up north. So it Flint and Lansing tho lol.