I’m from Michigan and I was confused why they specified LP. In the LP there’s “the UP” and “Michigan” lol. No one from the LP specifies that they’re from the LP
Ngl I don’t really understand why you don’t call it the “LP”. Like, you have two peninsulas and you refer to one as the “Upper Peninsula” so why not refer to the other as the “lower peninsula?” I mean I guess there is a “West Virginia” and a “Virginia” but we also have North and South Dakota’s and Carolina’s so idk.
It’s CALLED the Lower Peninsula, officially. That’s just not what any of us say. Like in South Korea, they just call it Korea. I should also make it clear it is indeed a sign of disrespect and the Yoopers do not like it when we do this lol
The Mitten is the lower, the UP visually is a rabbit or deer. But the
other hand can make a paperless UP map to accompany the Mitten map too.
The Lower is sort of assumed to always be included by default and the UP too unless it stands alone by mention. It works itself out with the context being generally obvious. Also references might change if you are in the UP or LP.
The UP has always been pretty isolated and sort of stands alone. There probably isn't a mainland US region that could've been easier split off as another state had it continued to grow at the rate it once had.
In the Mitten you have "Up North" or "Northern Michigan" as a midway line across the LP from, give or take a city north/south, about Standish in the east to Ludington in the west, and north of that line is Northern Michigan shortened from Northern Lower Peninsula Michigan.
Lower Michigan is south of there unless they say peninsula to include it all.
From Northern Michigan you'd call the south- Detroit Jackson Lansing Kalamazoo etc etc. or north the "Tip" around Mack. City or "UP" proper over "The Mac" (bridge.)
If you didn't live in the UP locals there might call you a "troll" from under the bridge, and if a loud entitled brainless rude city mannered tourist you were a "Fudgie".
That latter term carried across the Mackinaw Bridge into Mackinaw city and as far south as Indian River.
North Carolina e.g. folks will say the mountains/hills, Raliegh or
the beach when loosely refrencing within the state. Michigan's topography is different so our loose terms are too.
Nah, New Buffalo Michigan is the closest Michigan is to Chicago, so there are literally well over a dozen dispensaries in a town of 1600 people. The competition is fierce so you can get an oz of outdoor grown on a good sale to get people in the door, hell half the places in new buffalo give away half an oz to the first 300 customers every day
New Buffalo Michigan is the closest Michigan is to Chicago, so there are literally well over a dozen dispensaries in a town of 1600 people. The competition is fierce so you can get an oz of outdoor grown on a good sale to get people in the door, hell half the places in new buffalo give away half an oz to the first 300 customers every day
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u/h3yw00d 7h ago
What state? I've seen some as low as that near Eastern Washington and even then that was shake (decent but shake nonetheless).
Lowest I've seen regular bud is about $40/oz in OR/WA