[tecpatl]

Downtown TC is open and bustling year 'round. The renovated State Theater Traverse City Film Festival and new restaurants down there have really brought a lot more people downtown. It's a lively, fun small town downtown.

[sunshineann]

I absolutely love Traverse City..thats why we moved here. We actually relocated less than 10 miles west of Traverse, but we are in the TC every day. Downtown is what sold us. It's cute little shops, (although we have to window shop) the streets, and of course right next to the water. I dont mind the traffic if thats what you call it. When i first started driving around town, some of the one way streets messed me up. and the blinking arrow, i had no idea what to do and people were honking at me. lol. Then i seen someone turn left on a red light with a cop behind him, and the cop sat right there. Come to find out..you can turn left on red if its a one way street.
We love this town....love it love it love it....and we have only been here since december.

[JGatti]

I've had a desire to move to Gaylord for the longest time. Although I still love the city Traverse has really grown on me after my last few visits and I love the city and the idea of my kids being able to live and grow up in a nice safe area like I did as a kid. There is so much to do in the area, so much water and stores and places to just walk and enjoy. My wife and I were up there for the Cherry festival and walked from the Holliday Inn to the downtown area. What an enjoyable walk. The entire area has been developed in such a nice way, the new marina and sidewalks that seem to run the entire distance of the bay. I've been bugging my wife and trying to plant it in her head that TC is where we need to be.
When we were kids we could run the streets and neighborhood with no worries. Crime was just not something you really thought about. Now, even though we live in a far northern suburb we still need to be concerned about crime. There are some not so good people in our area and I won't let my son play out front unless I am out there. I know every city has it's problems, but when I look at the stat's and the fact city data shows no murders posted as far back at it goes. That tell's me that TC is a pretty safe city to be in. Hope we can hold out until that day might come.

[Peter B]

TVC is as safe as it can be. Only real issue up here are the morons who insist on drinking & driving. My wifes' law firm stays pretty busy because of it. Law enforcement is stellar around here and they do not put up w/any crap. In Traverse City proper, there is no place that we wouldn't feel safe walking in any time of day or night. We miss the "city" on ocassion but Chicago is only a 40 min flight away, which is where we go when we need our fix or some real ethic food (Greek, Italian , etc.) because that does not exist up here, yet

Originally Posted by JGatti

I've had a desire to move to Gaylord for the longest time. Although I still love the city Traverse has really grown on me after my last few visits and I love the city and the idea of my kids being able to live and grow up in a nice safe area like I did as a kid. There is so much to do in the area, so much water and stores and places to just walk and enjoy. My wife and I were up there for the Cherry festival and walked from the Holliday Inn to the downtown area. What an enjoyable walk. The entire area has been developed in such a nice way, the new marina and sidewalks that seem to run the entire distance of the bay. I've been bugging my wife and trying to plant it in her head that TC is where we need to be.
When we were kids we could run the streets and neighborhood with no worries. Crime was just not something you really thought about. Now, even though we live in a far northern suburb we still need to be concerned about crime. There are some not so good people in our area and I won't let my son play out front unless I am out there. I know every city has it's problems, but when I look at the stat's and the fact city data shows no murders posted as far back at it goes. That tell's me that TC is a pretty safe city to be in. Hope we can hold out until that day might come.

[CalieCat]

We are coming up to visit my Mother in Law in SW MI during the Labor Day holiday. I am thinking we might enjoy visiting Traverse City and wondered besides shopping if there would be anything for us to do. There will be me and my husband and our 2.5 yr old Grandson as well as our 79 yr old MIL.

I REALLY REALLY want to go to apple houses, get MI Maple syrup, apples and cider. Will the beginning of September be too early for that?!? I'm thinking we would drive up and spend the night and drive back down late the next day.

Things we are not interested in doing on this trip is would be movie theatres or museums.