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Absolutely. I lived the first 25 years of my life anywhere from Grand Rapids to Kalamazoo, and it's a lovely, quiet, and still somehow cheap place(West Michigan that is). I will always be fond of my time there, but the longer I am away the less I feel attached to it.

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I was visiting friends just west of Grand Rapids, seems like the industry , major foundries Aluminum etc. are polluting the waters. The fishing sucked. The locals were blaming pollutants in the water as well. The party popular in those parts isn't big on regulations. -- Pure Mich. my as#!

Not surprising at all...the paper mills from the last century in Kalamazoo (South of GR for those who want context) has rendered the Kalamazoo river pretty much unusable for the foreseeable future.

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