Sorry there was such a lapse in videos! We switched brokerages and started a team. So we are pretty busy doing that for quite a bit. We are back on target and just finished up a video today!
Grand Rapids Township is between EGR and Ada. A lot of people in the Forest Hills school district identify with Forest Hills more than with their municipality (Ada, Cascade, GR Township) EGR is very walkable. Many of the other suburbs listed are somewhat walkable if you live close to their downtown areas, but the majority of the housing, particularly newer, is not near the center. There are many suburban areas that are within the borders of the city of Grand Rapids. Many were annexed to the city after being developed.
Love it! My wife and I rent in GR but are considering buying here at some point. However, we are also open to urban living too. Can you do a video on the top ten NEIGHBORHOODS in GR proper? Thanks!
Hey Sean! We can check out some info on the top neighborhoods. Feel free to email me and I can get you set up on an auto search in the neighborhoods that fit what you would buy when you ready. That way you can stay on top of the market! :)
Would love to see more info on Grand Haven and then top neighborhoods or areas in Grand Rapids. Also would be neat to see a video on areas you would not want to live because crime, etc.
I enjoyed the outlines on each area...Grand Rapids should be the Capital city! Has so many beautiful places. My son and family live in Grandville and love iy!!
I know Holland isn’t technically a suburb of Grand Rapids but I’d love to hear your opinion on the town when it comes to schools, diversity, activities etc.
We agree Lowell is a great area. The site we used didn't mention it as a top. I think because it's a little further away. Unfortunately you can only pick so many when your trying to stay at 10 lol.
Best public transportation in the country pretty much. Lots of artsy things to do when its normal. Lake michigan is close. There's even an amusement park less than an hour away
It is 37 miles from Grand Rapids to Grand Haven. It is not really a suburb of Grand Rapids. It is a near by city. It is a fine town but there is a great deal of farm land between GR and GH.
Your titles say "New Zealand". It should be "Zeeland". Also East Grand Rapids is not the birthplace of President Ford. He was born in Omaha, NB. He grew up at 649 Union Avenue in the Heritage Hill Historic District of Grand Rapids.
I grew up and still live near Grand Rapids! The towns you listed are very nice. However I do think it is worth mentioning you basically listed the richest towns in the area. (Minus Ada i think but I don’t want to live in woods) Mind doing one for someone who makes the median 35,000$ a year and doesn’t want to live in the woods? Also as nice as those towns are I can’t stand the middle class culture around here. It’s very much a culture of smile and wave and wave at all costs and have no genuine personality. Especially Rockford lol.Great places for raising families though I guess.
@@livinginwestmi No, in the process. Came on the market yesterday. Planning on putting an offer in but know nothing about Wyoming. We want to move to the Greater Rapid Area...
@@livinginwestmi Yes, we are working with an agent, but hes a family member and his territory is in Mid, Mid-East Michigan - so he's not familiar with West Michigan. Yes, if you can post a video that would be awesome. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks!
My comments that are in a different direction that what I already wrote about. If I had the money I would buy a house outside of Grand Rapids area. 1. Petoskey and Harbor Springs, MI area. 2. Indian River, MI 3. Breckenridge, Colorado 4. Telluride, Colorado 5. Coeur d' Alene, Idaho 6. Missoula, Montana Since my wife and myself are on Social Security and other source of income with medical problems we can't do anything. Understand? Those places I mentioned are just dreams or wishes. We are just "stuck " living in this apartment here in Wyoming, MI indefinitely.
A few minutes of research or even a little Google search would go a long way. For two guys who allegedly come from this area, they get a lot of basic information wrong.
Wow you can tell you're real estate people You ain't looking for areas with big money. Grand Haven New Zealand are not suburbs of Grand Rapids Go ahead tell somebody and Grand Haven that there are suburb of Grand Rapids. Step back quick though cuz you might get slapped. The same goes for New Zealand. And East Grand Rapids sure it's a suburb of Grand Rapids itself with a lot of old homes that are way overpriced with a nice crime rate a little high. I've been here 62 years. You got it a little round guys. You guys are just looking for the 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰😁
No no no no no! Do not move to G.R. I’ve lived here most of my life and we get everything 10 years late, fashion. Nightlife, culture, crime. It sucks, stay very very far away. Snow up past your butt every winter. Go very far away.
Rocky Bass, are you taking illegal drugs??? Snow up to butt comment is so retarded. You are so naive. IT'S WIMPY WEATHER 99-95% OF THIS COUNTRY! People that are in snow up to their butt, is like Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort/Mammoth Lakes California where it got 19 FEET OF SNOW IN JUST 7 DAYS in December, 2018. So stop being a whining crybaby about this trivial winter weather in Michigan.
LOL 😆 west Michigan is a wonderful place to live. Most of the people moving in have so many stories about how bad it is we’re they live. Then how much they love it here.
@@livinginwestmi , I was born in Detroit and grew up there and Livonia. Almost two years after high school I went into the USAF. I met Kathy at my 3rd AFB, and married her there. At my last USAF base our daughter was born there in Texas. Summer 1978 we had 55 days in a row of 100 degrees or hotter. Twenty of those days were between 110 to 114 degrees. It was a dry heat climate though. Anyway before my entry into the USAF, my high school friend and myself went on a Ski trip to Alta, Utah and Jackson Hole Ski Resort, Wyoming(the state of course). January, 1974 I drove by myself from Altus AFB, Oklahoma into Colorado and went skiing of one day each of 4 different ones. Last one was Aspen Mountain. Drive all the way back to Altus with no sleep of about 700 miles(national speed limit was 55 mph back then). There's places then long time ago and now of NO GUARDRAILS. I was fortunate of driving in a snowstorm or a blizzard. Do you know what it is to drive in the mountains at night where you never been in your life with wet snow falling down the size of a quarter and no guardrails? That's what Paul and myself had endear from leaving Utah into Idaho on the way to Jackson Hole. I lived in all kinds of weather. We don't have avalanches, rock slides, mud slides, and no long periods of no guardrails. Take a look at TH-cam videos of Red Mountain Pass. About 3/4 miles south of Ouray(pronounced U-ray, named after a Ute Native American Indian Chief) going south on U.S. Highway 550/Million Dollar Highway there on this Red Mountain Pass highway portion, it drops off to about 800 FEET down to the river gorge below. So you go off the road, you very well will die. We don't get the snow in the Cascades Mountains of Washington or western Japan. Look up this Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route where this Snow Wall was 19 Meters High = 62 Feet High in Spring, 2017. When was last time we have a wall of snow and ice 60 feet high anywhere in the world? When I was in the USAF, I heard it was 40 Degrees Below Zero plus 70 MPH WINDS there North Dakota. The coldest I've seen was 28 degrees below zero in Indian River, Michigan back in the late 1980's at parents house. Understand? We don't have any of those things in Michigan. By the way, Red Mountain Pass is the most dangerous paved Mountain Pass in all of Canada and the U.S. You're one in twenty of dying of the various reasons in a snowstorm and not the higher sustained winds of a blizzard on this Pass road.
@@livinginwestmi In actually, weather here is "nice", easystreet, gravytime, etc. What I said, of whimpy is just the same as same words stated above. So the opposite of that is strong to the point of life threatening. Again there's places out in the western US, you go off the road you very well will die.
.........Gentlemen, I do like your Grand Rapids videos..I'm learning all sorts of things about my second/third adopted Hometown. I came from a military family and we moved every 1 to 2 years, thankfully always to a Coast Guard station in Michigan, always by Lake Michigan and we got to live in several of Michigan's nicest (IMHO) cities. ........How Ever.... Your sound on the vids...stinks. Its difficult to understand what you're saying with the wind and other background sounds. ......One of the nicer things about my job was my company had clients in each of these cities. Some were one time jobs, others were either monthly or weekly visits by our water specialists located in Moline. .....You did miss the village of Moline, ( most people don't know that there is a Moline IN Michigan ) but it has little to offer in ways of shopping, schools, sports, etc. .....But...We are a part of the Wayland Union school system ( WUSS) and the city of Wayland should have made your list, IMHO. It has all the basics, a decent grocery store, hardware, one, mayor car dealership, a good library and they even have a MacDonald's, Burger King and a nice sports bar/restaurant...oh, and a second traffic light that has a left hand turn lane. .......Like Wayland, Moline It Is a nice, quiet place to live and raise your children. I think that's why Moline is a real estate hot spot. We are asked several times a year...usually Spring and Summer...if we wish to sell our home. Thanks again for the videos.
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Gerald R Ford was born in Omaha, NE and grew up in Grand Rapids on Union S.E. He did live in East Grand Rapids when he was in Congress
Only rich people live in East GR!
Thank you! I'm looking forward to seeing those cities in more details. Yay to future videos!
Sorry there was such a lapse in videos! We switched brokerages and started a team. So we are pretty busy doing that for quite a bit. We are back on target and just finished up a video today!
Thank you guys for this video ! We are moving soon to Grand Haven and I would love to know more about that town.
Beautiful town
Thank you so much for this video. Very informative. Looking forward to your individual town videos.
We will be doing them very soon! Thanks for watching!
Grand Rapids Township is between EGR and Ada. A lot of people in the Forest Hills school district identify with Forest Hills more than with their municipality (Ada, Cascade, GR Township)
EGR is very walkable. Many of the other suburbs listed are somewhat walkable if you live close to their downtown areas, but the majority of the housing, particularly newer, is not near the center. There are many suburban areas that are within the borders of the city of Grand Rapids. Many were annexed to the city after being developed.
Great video! I’ve been in SE Louisiana for 16 years & the hurricanes are getting worse so I’ve been considering west Michigan. It’s a beautiful area!
Don’t hesitate! It’s beautiful here!
Love it! My wife and I rent in GR but are considering buying here at some point. However, we are also open to urban living too. Can you do a video on the top ten NEIGHBORHOODS in GR proper? Thanks!
Hey Sean! We can check out some info on the top neighborhoods. Feel free to email me and I can get you set up on an auto search in the neighborhoods that fit what you would buy when you ready. That way you can stay on top of the market! :)
@@livinginwestmi Could I also get set up on an auto search in the neighborhoods that fit what I would buy?
Love these! My husband Joe is a loan officer at Northern Mortgage. He will love to hear these! We are in Caledonia and love it!
Would love to see more info on Grand Haven and then top neighborhoods or areas in Grand Rapids. Also would be neat to see a video on areas you would not want to live because crime, etc.
I'd consider grand haven more of a suburb of Muskegon.
I enjoyed the outlines on each area...Grand Rapids should be the Capital city! Has so many beautiful places. My son and family live in Grandville and love iy!!
I know Holland isn’t technically a suburb of Grand Rapids but I’d love to hear your opinion on the town when it comes to schools, diversity, activities etc.
We can definitely do a highlight on Holland! It's a wonderful area!
Same, debating moving there from KY in the future. Need more info.
@ after doing my own research we decided on Grandrapids and the surrounding towns . We move this summer. 🙂
Walker Michigan hands down 💯
Hi! What’s in Walker? 😌
Can you do an updated video on zeeland??
What about Lowell?!? Lovely little town. Number one school!
We agree Lowell is a great area. The site we used didn't mention it as a top. I think because it's a little further away. Unfortunately you can only pick so many when your trying to stay at 10 lol.
Could you maybe do a video on what to expect when moving here like Public transportation I amenities and overall things to do
Best public transportation in the country pretty much. Lots of artsy things to do when its normal. Lake michigan is close. There's even an amusement park less than an hour away
@@fencefirst2722 You ride the Rapid a lot?
@@mtman22984 used to
@@fencefirst2722 the best by far but compared to rest of the world transportation it could be a lot better.
Anywhere within driving distance of Grand Rapids where you can find an apartment for around $800? I’m on a fixed income.
It is 37 miles from Grand Rapids to Grand Haven. It is not really a suburb of Grand Rapids. It is a near by city. It is a fine town but there is a great deal of farm land between GR and GH.
Take Leonard St straight or from GR and you're in Grange Haven in no time, via Spring Lake
east to close to crime ridden grand rapids used to live in east town for 15 years lots of crime
More to come!
Takin to long to get on with it yeooo..and what disk golf course you at?
I’m living outside of the U.S. and looking for relocation. Do you guys have an email to contact?
What area has the most retirees or seniors?
Your titles say "New Zealand". It should be "Zeeland". Also East Grand Rapids is not the birthplace of President Ford. He was born in Omaha, NB. He grew up at 649 Union Avenue in the Heritage Hill Historic District of Grand Rapids.
Why didn’t Holland make your top 10?
I grew up and still live near Grand Rapids! The towns you listed are very nice. However I do think it is worth mentioning you basically listed the richest towns in the area. (Minus Ada i think but I don’t want to live in woods) Mind doing one for someone who makes the median 35,000$ a year and doesn’t want to live in the woods? Also as nice as those towns are I can’t stand the middle class culture around here. It’s very much a culture of smile and wave and wave at all costs and have no genuine personality. Especially Rockford lol.Great places for raising families though I guess.
What about Wyoming? Moving from Minneapolis, found a house in Wyoming...
Did you already buy one? We will be doing individual highlights of all the different areas in and around Grand Rapids.
@@livinginwestmi No, in the process. Came on the market yesterday. Planning on putting an offer in but know nothing about Wyoming. We want to move to the Greater Rapid Area...
@@chellafam3267 ok are you already working with an agent? Ill put a Wyoming video together and post it on here for you.
@@livinginwestmi Yes, we are working with an agent, but hes a family member and his territory is in Mid, Mid-East Michigan - so he's not familiar with West Michigan. Yes, if you can post a video that would be awesome. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks!
@Alice. InChains Thanks for the insight!
East Grand Rapids hands down.
Seems your only focused on the rich area. Just saying. Look up Division Ave s around Wealthy St. Wish it was that quite here.
My comments that are in a different direction that what I already wrote about. If I had the money I would buy a house outside of Grand Rapids area.
1. Petoskey and Harbor Springs, MI area.
2. Indian River, MI
3. Breckenridge, Colorado
4. Telluride, Colorado
5. Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
6. Missoula, Montana
Since my wife and myself are on Social Security and other source of income with medical problems we can't do anything. Understand? Those places I mentioned are just dreams or wishes. We are just "stuck " living in this apartment here in Wyoming, MI indefinitely.
Wish you could go
Cool video but is grand haven really a suburb of Grand Rapids
We added it because there are still a lot of people who commute from Grand Haven to Grand Rapids. 🤷
No it’s not lol ... summer time it’s nice there love the CGF and July 4th there
How’s Sparta?
Sparta is an awesome farm and apple community. Good schools and charming downtown.
@@livinginwestmi how long till suburban boom hits it?
Wow guys y’all tripping you can’t mention Grand Rapids suburbs without mentioning Kentwood MI 🤷🏾♂️
#GoFalcons
They said best not worst..lol
I did the fence all around the high school there.. Tennis courts, ball fields.. Everything
EK graduate here. Love it
Kentwood, Wyoming crap holes.
Did you skip East Grand Rapids? If so, why??
Black Hills! Every night something exciting is happening.
Walker ....
Yes
A few minutes of research or even a little Google search would go a long way. For two guys who allegedly come from this area, they get a lot of basic information wrong.
How so?
Wow you can tell you're real estate people You ain't looking for areas with big money. Grand Haven New Zealand are not suburbs of Grand Rapids Go ahead tell somebody and Grand Haven that there are suburb of Grand Rapids. Step back quick though cuz you might get slapped. The same goes for New Zealand. And East Grand Rapids sure it's a suburb of Grand Rapids itself with a lot of old homes that are way overpriced with a nice crime rate a little high. I've been here 62 years. You got it a little round guys. You guys are just looking for the 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰😁
Hall & Grandville st. Little Mexico best suburb.
East grand Rapids also inspiration in the movie American pie lol lbvs
No no no no no! Do not move to G.R. I’ve lived here most of my life and we get everything 10 years late, fashion. Nightlife, culture, crime. It sucks, stay very very far away. Snow up past your butt every winter. Go very far away.
Rocky Bass, are you taking illegal drugs??? Snow up to butt comment is so retarded. You are so naive. IT'S WIMPY WEATHER 99-95% OF THIS COUNTRY! People that are in snow up to their butt, is like Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort/Mammoth Lakes California where it got 19 FEET OF SNOW IN JUST 7 DAYS in December, 2018. So stop being a whining crybaby about this trivial winter weather in Michigan.
LOL 😆 west Michigan is a wonderful place to live. Most of the people moving in have so many stories about how bad it is we’re they live. Then how much they love it here.
@@livinginwestmi , I was born in Detroit and grew up there and Livonia. Almost two years after high school I went into the USAF. I met Kathy at my 3rd AFB, and married her there. At my last USAF base our daughter was born there in Texas. Summer 1978 we had 55 days in a row of 100 degrees or hotter. Twenty of those days were between 110 to 114 degrees. It was a dry heat climate though. Anyway before my entry into the USAF, my high school friend and myself went on a Ski trip to Alta, Utah and Jackson Hole Ski Resort, Wyoming(the state of course). January, 1974 I drove by myself from Altus AFB, Oklahoma into Colorado and went skiing of one day each of 4 different ones. Last one was Aspen Mountain. Drive all the way back to Altus with no sleep of about 700 miles(national speed limit was 55 mph back then). There's places then long time ago and now of NO GUARDRAILS. I was fortunate of driving in a snowstorm or a blizzard. Do you know what it is to drive in the mountains at night where you never been in your life with wet snow falling down the size of a quarter and no guardrails? That's what Paul and myself had endear from leaving Utah into Idaho on the way to Jackson Hole. I lived in all kinds of weather.
We don't have avalanches, rock slides, mud slides, and no long periods of no guardrails. Take a look at TH-cam videos of Red Mountain Pass. About 3/4 miles south of Ouray(pronounced U-ray, named after a Ute Native American Indian Chief) going south on U.S. Highway 550/Million Dollar Highway there on this Red Mountain Pass highway portion, it drops off to about 800 FEET down to the river gorge below. So you go off the road, you very well will die. We don't get the snow in the Cascades Mountains of Washington or western Japan. Look up this Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route where this Snow Wall was 19 Meters High = 62 Feet High in Spring, 2017. When was last time we have a wall of snow and ice 60 feet high anywhere in the world? When I was in the USAF, I heard it was 40 Degrees Below Zero plus 70 MPH WINDS there North Dakota. The coldest I've seen was 28 degrees below zero in Indian River, Michigan back in the late 1980's at parents house. Understand? We don't have any of those things in Michigan.
By the way, Red Mountain Pass is the most dangerous paved Mountain Pass in all of Canada and the U.S. You're one in twenty of dying of the various reasons in a snowstorm and not the higher sustained winds of a blizzard on this Pass road.
@@livinginwestmi In actually, weather here is "nice", easystreet, gravytime, etc. What I said, of whimpy is just the same as same words stated above. So the opposite of that is strong to the point of life threatening. Again there's places out in the western US, you go off the road you very well will die.
@@livinginwestmi at least you get the humor as intended. Nice video guys. Just trying to set off the trolls, which I seem to have succeeded at :)
.........Gentlemen, I do like your Grand Rapids videos..I'm learning all sorts of things about my second/third adopted Hometown. I came from a military family and we moved every 1 to 2 years, thankfully always to a Coast Guard station in Michigan, always by Lake Michigan and we got to live in several of Michigan's nicest (IMHO) cities.
........How Ever....
Your sound on the vids...stinks. Its difficult to understand what you're saying with the wind and other background sounds.
......One of the nicer things about my job was my company had clients in each of these cities. Some were one time jobs, others were either monthly or weekly visits by our water specialists located in Moline.
.....You did miss the village of Moline, ( most people don't know that there is a Moline IN Michigan ) but it has little to offer in ways of shopping, schools, sports, etc.
.....But...We are a part of the Wayland Union school system
( WUSS) and the city of Wayland should have made your list, IMHO. It has all the basics, a decent grocery store, hardware, one, mayor car dealership, a good library and they even have a MacDonald's, Burger King and a nice sports bar/restaurant...oh, and a second traffic light that has a left hand turn lane.
.......Like Wayland, Moline It Is a nice, quiet place to live and raise your children. I think that's why Moline is a real estate hot spot. We are asked several times a year...usually Spring and Summer...if we wish to sell our home.
Thanks again for the videos.