East Lansing -- a very nice university town
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5/30/2015
East Lansing is noted for being the home of one of the first Land Grant colleges -- Michigan State University. MSU has an large campus with an enormous area of land south of the campus dedicated to animal husbandry and agriculture. The green and white colors of Michigan State were chosen to reflect its dedication to agriculture at the time of its founding. But MSU now offers degrees in many technical fields and even has a law school.
East Lansing is a fun place because the college students bring a lot of bustle to what would otherwise be a quiet city. The university has wonderful facilities and their theater brings many touring shows and theater companies to town. In addition, there are the sports events. MSU is noted for its football and basketball programs, but they have a variety of other sports teams that draw crowds to the various arenas located on campus.
Of course, being a university town, a significant fraction of the population are professors or work to support the university in a variety of ways, making the general population more diverse and probably more accomplished academically than the average Midwestern town.
Since East Lansing butts up to the state capital of Lansing, MI, one can take advantage of the benefits of living next to a city that is a little bit more cosmopolitan than East Lansing. Lansing has a minor league baseball team, The Lugnuts, so named because Lansing was, at one time, a major auto manufacturing site. Many of the companies in the Lansing area still support the auto industry even though a number of the large assembly plants have been demolished.
Being centrally located in the state, it is relatively easy to get to any location in Michigan's southern penninsula, so one can easily take advantage of the parks, nature areas, shores, and cities in southern Michigan.
In all, East Lansing is a very nice place to live.
William | East Lansing, MI