Fer sure - I think the 2020 census had a population of about 2,000. The whole county is probably 3,000, if that. However, once you get outside of Manistique, there is nothing. Literally. Hunting lodges and summer vacation cabins.
I’ve been there and the UP in general is pretty much like northern Maine. Whole lotta nothin. -D > On Oct 26, 2022, at 3:34 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > It's so nowhere that it's almost somewhere again. > Still has 10x the population of Stockholm, ME where my cousin owns the store. > When I say the store I mean it's the only store in town. > > > -Curt > > > > On Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 03:25:42 PM EDT, dan penoff.com via > Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > > Look up Manistique MI on Google Maps. It gives a new meaning to the term > “remote”, much like the better part of Maine. > > The wife told us that after the first snow there was no more driving a > car/truck into town, it was snow machine until the spring thaw. You > wanted/needed something, it was a multi-hour trip on a snowmobile, so you > better want/need it bad. This predated cell phones, too, not that I expect > there would be any service out there anyway. > > -D > >> On Oct 26, 2022, at 3:16 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> Loads of people from the south moving to northern Maine in the last year or >> so because land is so cheap. >> >> My cousin had a tenant that just up and left. Shes from Texas and told him >> "It's always so cold here!" That was in August. >> >> She just got in her car and turned south, left all the stuff in her >> apartment. Fortunately her rent was current. >> >> I wonder how the others will fare at -20F or colder. >> >> -Curt >> >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 03:03:54 PM EDT, dan penoff.com via >> Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> I can see that. >> >> Former owner of our first house sold it to fund the purchase of a hunting >> lodge 40 miles north of Manistique, somewhere around Steuben. He was going >> to live there year ‘round. We heard from the wife’s daughter a few years >> later that Mom didn’t care for rural living and had returned to the >> flatlands (Indiana). >> >> -D >> >>> On Oct 26, 2022, at 2:58 PM, mitch--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On 2022-10-26 14:43, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: >>>> I thought that deduction was for Hummers? >>> >>> I actually had that on a depreciation schedule 20 years ago. >>> A HMMV and a Suburban. >>> Then he added a diesel Excursion. >>> >>> Then the HMMV got sold a couple years later. >>> It was hardly ever driven, but when you're doing emergency work in Da UP, >>> and you absolutely must get there, it did the job. >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >>> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
