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[quote=Anonymous]Michigan State grad here.  East Lansing is AWESOME, OP.  Beautiful campus.  My nephew went to East Lansing public schools and they are very good.  They are also diverse due to the proximity to the university.  Taxes in East Lansing are fairly high (at least compared to the rest of the area, but low by DC standards!).  The cost of living is so, so much lower.  It's also a slower pace of life, but the area still has arts and culture (again, compared to DC, not so much, but better than average for a small midwestern city).  The Wharton Center gets large-scale shows and productions, there's plenty of sports if you're in to that (and Detroit sports aren't far), there's an art fair in the summer, etc.

It's cold in the winter, so there's that, but the summers in Michigan are beautiful.  EL is within an hour's drive of Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, and Detroit, and you're not far from small beaches (Lake Lansing) and an hour and a half or so from  large beaches (Lake Michigan).

Okemos is a nice suburb, but not as diverse as EL.  If you want to go more rural feeling, you can move some place like DeWitt, where you can get a house with quite a bit of land (but again, not diverse).  Houses in Michigan are CHEAP.  $200,000 will get you an awesome house in East Lansing-- my sister just sold her renovated home with 4 bedrooms and a finished basement for $130K.  When she told me that I seriously wanted to cry.  (A tiny house across the street from us in our crappy neighborhood in DC just went for $475K...)

There's an airport in Lansing, but it's usually cheaper to fly out of Detroit.  It's not too far to DTW-- under an hour.

One thing about the midwest is that it's a very car-dependent culture.  You'll need to be a 2 car family if you aren't already.  There's a bus system in EL, but it's not super extensive or super reliable.

Honestly, if we could both find jobs, I would move back to the midwest in a heartbeat.  Raising my kid in EL is kind of my dream.  Lucky you, OP!![/quote]

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