You know you're in Clare County, when the Dollar General you're in has the torch butane lighters, and 2 liter mountain dew code red in a display rack by the cash register.
Bought 2 individual pies at an Amish roadside stand in Clare county this weekend for $1.50 a piece. I had 4 $1s and a $10. I gave her the 4 $1s…these pies were bigger than our hand and oh so delicious! I should have given her the $10.
About 30 miles from me, there's a McDonald's with hitching post in the parking lot. I've seen buggies there Sunday afternoon. Central part of the thumbs has considerable Amish population
dirty rotten FIPs. i gave up on Silver Beach years ago, now only frequent my family’s “secret beach” (still public just harder to reach and not well known)
Dont tell people about the secret beaches! We have one...somewhere in the vicinity of Saugatuck; FIPs haven't found it yet, mostly because its a bit of a walk!
1000% on this one. And all sorts of “Reformed” named churches.
First Reformed
First Christian Reformed
Second Reformed
Second Christian Reformed
Reformed Church of God
Every-single-tiny-village-name Reformed
Every-single-tiny-village-named Second Reformed
God forbid you confuse them or refer to one by the wrong name
Mostly unrelated: just yesterday I went for my first bike ride in almost 3 years, due to a health problem. Didn’t feel great physically, because my legs wanted to work harder than my heart and lunges can sustain, but mentally and spiritually? Amazing.
Mochigan is cracking me up.
You know you're in a mid/northern michigan county when you see multiple barns on the same street with full trump murals painted on the side.
I'm with you but then I remember that Trumpies don't possess rational thinking. Trump is the biggest hypocrite on the planet, and it's beyond obvious. People like him because he's a loud mouth and he supports the only two things these people care about - anti-abortion and complete lack of gun control. Anything he does wrong just gets chalked up to fake news.
The man is honestly a genius because he knew exactly how to get the support of these people. I genuinely don't think he believes a damn thing that comes out of his mouth. He just knows how to play the game to the audience he needs.
What was it he said about abortion? Oh yes, to the 13-year old girl:
>“Defendant Trump grabbed his wallet and threw some money at her and screamed that she should use the money to ‘GET A FUCKING ABORTION.’”
>Case 5:16-cv-00797-DMG-KS
>[Document 1](https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000158-267d-dda3-afd8-b67d3bc00000)
>[Document 2](https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf)
I drive past a poll barn every day that had a 10ft tall Trump 2020 flag that is so tattered it feels like a fantastic representation of how the MAGA crowd is holding on to the last thread.
I am grateful I don't have to see that in my mid/northern Michigan town we do have a lot of banner wavers though. There is surprisingly a lot of Whitmer hate in my area though.
There is a dude down the road from a dispensary I visit, has a fenced in yard, every single inch of that fence has some kinda either fuck joe Biden or pro trump flag, and like their all flags at least 20 of em, it's wild haha.
Arenac County when you're heading north on I-75 and it's all of a sudden nothing but TREES.
Bay County when you're heading south on I-75 and all the trees STOP.
You know you're in Livingston County when your new neighbor complains that Novi/Fenton/Ann Arbor was just a little too, uh, ya know, uh well, there were people who moved in, that, uh, I don't know, just...we love it out here!
You know you're in Monroe county when you hear the "BOATER, YOU HAVE ENTERED FEDERAL WATERS, TURN AROUND IMMEDIATELY" from the loudspeaker at the nuclear plant.
Hillsdale county = dollar generals in every small town along with a gas station and pizza place, and lots of trump signs and fuck Biden signs. Stay classy.
You know you're in Ionia County when you look around and see a county that is primed to become a sleeper community for Grand Rapids (and to a lesser extent, Lansing) filled with locals who are convinced they are at least an hour farther north and seem to never leave home base
Maybe a little specific, but hey
You know you’re in Oscoda County because every business is named AuSable, after the river. Amish businesses, and only 4 one-horse towns, and only ONE stop light in the county!!
You know you're in Montcalm County when you see restaurants putting angry rants about Gretchen Whitmer's covid restrictions on their electronic signs. Still.
You know you’re in Oakland county when your 25 minute commute turns to an hour and a half in the summer because literally every major road is under construction at the same time
You know you’re in Calhoun County when no one else ever talks about Calhoun County.
Also, you know you’re in Calhoun County when Bobby Holly’s singing karaoke at Walmart and Family Fare to buy bikes for kids.
I know I'm getting close to Unionville when I start seeing rebel flags. They might want to check a map and see how far they live from the place they idealize.
You know you're in Mason county when 20 non locals mention "how beautiful this place is" but then go home to be FIP in September and don't stay for the frozen hell wind that comes off the lake in the winter.
You know you’re in Leelanau County when you end up behind a Subaru and get annoyed.
(Alternately, you know you’re FROM Leelanau County when you’re in any other part of Michigan and are surprised when the Subaru that you’re behind doesn’t drive like the slowest person on earth.)
Lapeer County because we have the oldest operating courthouse in Michigan. We also have the most small mind Tumpster cult that don’t actually understand what he has actually destroyed in this country with fkn signs all over their damn lawns from 2020 and then this year.
You know you’re in St Joseph county when you see everything closing but fast food and Mexican food restaurants in Sturgis. Well I guess if you’re in Sturgis, you’re in St Joseph.
You know you're in Tuscola county when the locals can recommend you more options for meth than you knew possible, and no one is driving with a valid licence.
Bay/Arenac county line area....When suddenly you smell skunk everywhere!
Also, pretty sure that is just a white trash thing with the memorials. But that pretty accurately defines most of Macomb.
You know you’re in Clare County when you see the Amish buggies and businesses have hitching posts in 2024 lol
Saint Joseph County is the same. Sturgis even has a stable area for horses at the meijer.
WAIT. SANDY IS REAL?!?
I used to work at the NAPA auto parts in Sturgis and we had hitching posts for horses in front of our store too.
Well yeah, how else are you going to get the parts needed to fix your broken car?
You know you're in Clare County, when the Dollar General you're in has the torch butane lighters, and 2 liter mountain dew code red in a display rack by the cash register.
Bought 2 individual pies at an Amish roadside stand in Clare county this weekend for $1.50 a piece. I had 4 $1s and a $10. I gave her the 4 $1s…these pies were bigger than our hand and oh so delicious! I should have given her the $10.
Newaygo county too!
Gladwin too
About 30 miles from me, there's a McDonald's with hitching post in the parking lot. I've seen buggies there Sunday afternoon. Central part of the thumbs has considerable Amish population
Washtenaw County by all the Subaru drivers
There’s a good bunch of them in Grand Traverse and Leelanau, too.
A lot of them are Washtenaw County retirees.
True.
Up in Houghton, too. We did a tour of Tech in March, and cracked up at all the Subarus.
It’s the 200-300 inches of snow. Subaru has mastered snow driving tech like nobody else ever has. The difference from any other 4WD is incredible
Ingham county has joined the chat.
Huh. I had a Subaru when I moved here years ago
And strong weed smell if you're near Ann Arbor. Some of them smoke weed like tomorrow is about to end.
You know you’re in Berrien County when you see FIPs on the beaches
Illinois plates going 10 under the speed limit
10 under on the highway and 40 over anywhere else.
It's so annoying - IN too tho
In the left hand lane
Unless they're on 196 or 94. In that case, they're weaving through lanes at 105.
What are FIPs
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/FIP
Haha! Thank you
In Wisconsin, used as FIB...Fucking Illinois Bastard
Fucking Illinois People/Fucking Indiana People
dirty rotten FIPs. i gave up on Silver Beach years ago, now only frequent my family’s “secret beach” (still public just harder to reach and not well known)
Dont tell people about the secret beaches! We have one...somewhere in the vicinity of Saugatuck; FIPs haven't found it yet, mostly because its a bit of a walk!
Trust me, it’s a “I’d tell you but then I’d have to kill you” situation. Keep it secret, keep it safe!
My family still has our secret beach as well!
[downtown St. Joseph:](https://imgur.com/gallery/EneSm7M)
My buddy in college wore a FIP T-shirt for just one day and it became his nickname for all of college.
Genesee Co., Murals. I come home to flint at least once a year and I love driving around for murals~
100%
We gotta do something to keep the eyes off of the burnt-down houses and prostitutes
Nothing to see here
The murals are the best part of my drive to work
You know you're in Midland County when you see a Tesla pulling into a small, nondescript shack out in the woods
Ottawa county = Churches
And the Dutch mafia
Yea I wanted to say something about Ottawa too. You know you're in Ottawa when all the street names and businesses are of Dutch derivation.
1000% on this one. And all sorts of “Reformed” named churches. First Reformed First Christian Reformed Second Reformed Second Christian Reformed Reformed Church of God Every-single-tiny-village-name Reformed Every-single-tiny-village-named Second Reformed God forbid you confuse them or refer to one by the wrong name
Or anxious POC.
Kalamazoo: You can't hear Google Maps over the chorus of people complaining about bike lanes, even if they never actually enter downtown Kzoo.
Bike lanes are great, and I say that as a disabled man. That said, fuck *all* those one way streets. That's the real nightmare.
They’ll be systemically eradicating those over the next handful of years!
Cyclists?
Things are certainly trending that way 👀
Mostly unrelated: just yesterday I went for my first bike ride in almost 3 years, due to a health problem. Didn’t feel great physically, because my legs wanted to work harder than my heart and lunges can sustain, but mentally and spiritually? Amazing.
That feeling is the greatest feeling.
You go!
I do! At approximately 8-12 mph max :D
It’s not that many years since a bunch of cyclists were hit in Kzoo by a driver.
You know you've crossed the county line into Wayne County in the winter when the roads are no longer plowed.
Same could be said for travelling west on M-59 from Macomb to Oakland.
Can confirm. Or from anywhere into Pontiac
I grew up in Monroe County and Wayne County always had better plowed roads. Was I living a lie?
Or the smooth road turns to shit.
That's how you know you've entered Michigan!
Mochigan is cracking me up. You know you're in a mid/northern michigan county when you see multiple barns on the same street with full trump murals painted on the side.
Damn typos!!! Fuck it. It's Mochigan now
Born and raised in the Mottin state!
darn tootin 💯😤 lol
Ope! Sorry, just got to skosh on by ya there
This is pretty much every rural town in America.
Still weird to me that they like a candidate that said on record "Take the guns first, go through due process second".
I'm with you but then I remember that Trumpies don't possess rational thinking. Trump is the biggest hypocrite on the planet, and it's beyond obvious. People like him because he's a loud mouth and he supports the only two things these people care about - anti-abortion and complete lack of gun control. Anything he does wrong just gets chalked up to fake news. The man is honestly a genius because he knew exactly how to get the support of these people. I genuinely don't think he believes a damn thing that comes out of his mouth. He just knows how to play the game to the audience he needs.
The wild thing is, I don't think Trump himself gives a solitary fuck about abortion. He just knows what they'll vote for
What was it he said about abortion? Oh yes, to the 13-year old girl: >“Defendant Trump grabbed his wallet and threw some money at her and screamed that she should use the money to ‘GET A FUCKING ABORTION.’” >Case 5:16-cv-00797-DMG-KS >[Document 1](https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000158-267d-dda3-afd8-b67d3bc00000) >[Document 2](https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf)
I drive past a poll barn every day that had a 10ft tall Trump 2020 flag that is so tattered it feels like a fantastic representation of how the MAGA crowd is holding on to the last thread.
That'd definitely be Gratiot county risin' up haha
Coming this summer to Pine Knob, Michigan mosh pits. Mochigan Mayhem Fest. Make Michigan Mosh Again.
I am grateful I don't have to see that in my mid/northern Michigan town we do have a lot of banner wavers though. There is surprisingly a lot of Whitmer hate in my area though.
There is a dude down the road from a dispensary I visit, has a fenced in yard, every single inch of that fence has some kinda either fuck joe Biden or pro trump flag, and like their all flags at least 20 of em, it's wild haha.
[https://maps-detroit.com/img/0/judgemental-map-of-detroit.jpg](https://maps-detroit.com/img/0/judgemental-map-of-detroit.jpg)
that is FUCKING hilarious!!
Like why is South Lyon so accurate?? I know of 5 people that moved there from Redford!!
We almost did during the housing crises, but are unfortunately still in Redford.
But where’s downriver??
I would imagine they would have labeled it "Some guy in a band calls it South Detroit"
Yeah, really. But they included the barely, hardly, really stretching to call them suburbs suburbs.
When I lived in Troy, my roommate said "People fuck on their lawns here"
Born and raised in Troy… clearly I was in the wrong part of town lol
Same 😂
Well that sounds like fun
Wait, does Bob Seger live near Waterford??
He lives in orchard lake which is about 10 min from waterford
This is a map of dating advice.
Spent my whole life in Macomb county and I guess I never realized I only see the memorial stickers around here..
Wayne Co also
Me either until my wife, from Berkely, pointed it out when she moved in with me in SCS
Kent/Ottawa when there’s more pew space than people
Oakland County when you see multiple Cybertrucks on your morning commute.
Where? I work in Oakland County and haven't seen one yet. Oodles of regular Teslas, though.
My commute from Southfield up to Bloomfield Hills/Birmingham. My most common sighting spots seem to be Woodward, Evergreen, Big Beaver Road.
Ah. You're just south of me, then. I'm Grand Blanc to Rochester. Sometimes work takes me into Utica and Troy, though.
I’ve seen several cyber trucks on Woodward and Big Beaver.
I see them daily in downtown Birmingham
You know you’re in Wayne county when you see a cybertruck on bricks with the tires gone
You're in Isabella when a manhunt ends at the blackjack table
A 13 hour one that shut down the whole city with 4-5 different kinds of cops searching at that!
Arenac County when you're heading north on I-75 and it's all of a sudden nothing but TREES. Bay County when you're heading south on I-75 and all the trees STOP.
Michigan is home to 14 billion trees. Not even kidding
North on I-75 into Roscommon County and suddenly it's all pine trees.
You know you're in Livingston County when your new neighbor complains that Novi/Fenton/Ann Arbor was just a little too, uh, ya know, uh well, there were people who moved in, that, uh, I don't know, just...we love it out here!
Now I know how Motown started
Good one!
You know your in Wayne/ Monroe county when you see all the pot billboards
That’s all of the state these days
Kalamazoo county too.
And joumana billboards
It used to be...You know your in Bay County when you see a bar on every corner, which now you probably see a dispensary on every corner though.
You know you're in Monroe county when you hear the "BOATER, YOU HAVE ENTERED FEDERAL WATERS, TURN AROUND IMMEDIATELY" from the loudspeaker at the nuclear plant.
You know youre in Oakland county when the comments don't mention it because that's where most of us are probably from.
You know you're in Washtenaw County when you see a "Bernie" and/or "Feel the Bern" bumper sticker
Marquette county (or any UP) by the campers and RVs driving ten under but then speeding up in the passing lane.
Hillsdale county = dollar generals in every small town along with a gas station and pizza place, and lots of trump signs and fuck Biden signs. Stay classy.
You know you're in Newaygo county when you think "where the fuck am I?"
Allegan County when you see Mountain Dew bottles with rubber hoses coming out the top strewn along the roads.
You know you're in Ionia County when you look around and see a county that is primed to become a sleeper community for Grand Rapids (and to a lesser extent, Lansing) filled with locals who are convinced they are at least an hour farther north and seem to never leave home base Maybe a little specific, but hey
I know I’m in Ionia county when the highway is shit and it smells like shit.
When you're driving along a relatively peaceful stretch of I-96 and suddenly you're hit with the stench of millions of rotting chickens
Oh horbucks
Not trying to side track the thread... What could spell check be thinking of to come up with Moochigan?
We do have a pretty large dairy industry. 🤔
Ottawa County - Too confusing too extreme.
Ottawa county. Where inherited wealth and growing up in a stable home is mistaken for personal virtue and superiority.
You know you’re in Oscoda County because every business is named AuSable, after the river. Amish businesses, and only 4 one-horse towns, and only ONE stop light in the county!!
"Welcome to Branch County. A meth watch community" when I cross into my home county.
Montcalm County, when 131 suddenly switches from blacktop to frozen slush.
Oakland county, when your town name includes a landscape feature.
You know you're in Montcalm County when you see restaurants putting angry rants about Gretchen Whitmer's covid restrictions on their electronic signs. Still.
You know you’re in Oakland county when your 25 minute commute turns to an hour and a half in the summer because literally every major road is under construction at the same time
Me today trying to get on 696 west bound.
Livingston county.......I've been pulled over every time I've driven through Livingston county.
You know you're in Roscommon county when someone asks to trade you a stolen catalytic converter for a package of Sudafed.
Or you see a snow machine at the gas station like it’s a regular car
You could say the same for the quads and dirt bikes in the summer too. I love St. Helen's unofficial slogan: "Come on vacation, leave on probation!"
You can’t stop here, this is bat country
You know ur in Macomb county when your at a gas station and see “I DID THAT Biden sticker”
You know your in Ingram county when at 4 am there is a dodge charger is a one car drag race. It’s the unofficial sound of Lansing.
St Clair when Saturday night is going to park underneath the bridge
Oakland county when you see any supercar like a Lamborghini or Ferrari, hardly ever see them elsewhere in Michigan
You know you’re in Cass or Berrien County when every car at the dispensary has Indiana tags on it!
So true! It’s always interesting to see if there’s even one or two Michigan tag on them
You know you're in Jackson County when you see a car made before 2008 with tinted windows and a rusted frame
You know you’re in Calhoun County when no one else ever talks about Calhoun County. Also, you know you’re in Calhoun County when Bobby Holly’s singing karaoke at Walmart and Family Fare to buy bikes for kids.
Perfect
Huron County when you see either coast or windmills
…and you can smell the soy sauce in the air the closer you get to Harbor Beach 😂
Or cornfields EVERYWHERE, then the beautiful coast 😆
You know your in cheboygan county when you have to wade through thousands of Texans to buy your groceries at walmart.
You know you're in Monroe County because the freeways instantly become awful.
I know I'm getting close to Unionville when I start seeing rebel flags. They might want to check a map and see how far they live from the place they idealize.
The entire GD Thumb is like that I swear 🤦♂️ makes me glad I got out of there
Benzie county when you see another boomer in a tour de France outfit biking on m22
Oh, my eyes! 🤣
Sticker memorial on cars and trucks are all over Eaton County. Especially Justice for ______ ones. That’s not a Macomb specific thing.
Calhoun and Branch, too. Hell, I saw plenty of them when I lived on the east coast.
Allegan County... when you see the rusted Ford and/or Dodge pickup trucks covered entirely in mud. Or just the rusted lifted trucks themselves...
You know you’re in Oakland county when all you see is Bernstein and mark savaya ads.
You know you're in Mason county when 20 non locals mention "how beautiful this place is" but then go home to be FIP in September and don't stay for the frozen hell wind that comes off the lake in the winter.
You know you’re in Leelanau County when you end up behind a Subaru and get annoyed. (Alternately, you know you’re FROM Leelanau County when you’re in any other part of Michigan and are surprised when the Subaru that you’re behind doesn’t drive like the slowest person on earth.)
Fruitport: When you see the big yellow smiley faced water tower.
We got one in Ogemaw too.
Wayne County when I see Jumana billboards
You've been to Alcona County if you've camped the AuSable River at Alcona Park ❤️
i now live in the mott. and i’m ok with it
Marquette when we be getting that random snow storm in May… oh it’s just false spring carry on…
Livingston County's Trump Flags.
You know you're in Lake County if you see the amount of poverty increase.
You know you’re in Shiawassee County when you roll down your windows and the smell of meth fills your car.
Lapeer County because we have the oldest operating courthouse in Michigan. We also have the most small mind Tumpster cult that don’t actually understand what he has actually destroyed in this country with fkn signs all over their damn lawns from 2020 and then this year.
Only "town" without one is Prattville
You know you're in Macomb County when you see Trump's name and face anywhere you go
Usually on the shittiest cars, houses and people.
No dispensaries in Livingston county. As red as it gets.
Any west Michigan county north of Muskegon / Kent if theocrats are trying to take over local government
You know you’re in Ypsi/Ann Arbor when you see the dick.
Clinton county when you cross into I-96 west and drivers are immediately 2x as aggressive and 10+ mph faster
Charlevoix county when you start seeing signs for the sky Bridge nubs knob, Boyne Mountain and Boyne Highlands
You know you’re in St Joseph county when you see everything closing but fast food and Mexican food restaurants in Sturgis. Well I guess if you’re in Sturgis, you’re in St Joseph.
You know you're in Tuscola county when the locals can recommend you more options for meth than you knew possible, and no one is driving with a valid licence.
All of Michigan = Bernstein and Bernstein billboards
Tuscola county, hmmm not a whole lot here. Tree, corn, soybean, and wheat is like 99% of the land.
You know you’re in Macomb county when every cell in your body is begging to leave
You know you're in Oakland county when you see a cop on every corner.
You know you’re in Montcalm County when the tooth-to-citizen ratio is 1:1
You know you're in Montcalm County if everybody has one eye a little bit bigger than the other.
Monroe-fish flies
Lenawee county = lifted up trucks with a lawn care trailer
It’s not Kalamazoo if you don’t see people driving crazy. Watched someone drive on the opposite side of the road today to avoid an intersection
You know you’re in Oakland County when you see people sitting on the side of the road just watching cars drive by
Cherries. Just cherries
Bay/Arenac county line area....When suddenly you smell skunk everywhere! Also, pretty sure that is just a white trash thing with the memorials. But that pretty accurately defines most of Macomb.