It’s All Relative. We’re from the Detroit area and, like most friends here from Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc, we refer to back home as North or Up North. In Michigan when heading up into the northern part of the Lower Peninsula for summer cottages and winter skiing, we always said we were going Up North. Even more nuanced, a Detroit newspaper once polled readers and found the term most accurately applied to north of Clare, MI, a town in the middle of the state regarded as the lower range of Michigan’s snow belt.
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