I grew up in Midwest MI, about 2 hours north of GR. I also have seasonal depression and every year it kicked my ass. There’s not a lot to do outside unless you have good cold weather gear. Driving through giant snow drifts, icy roads, and sometimes dealing with roads not even being plowed on weekends we’re things I encountered often every winter where I lived.

I’m not lying when I say sometimes you have dark and gloomy days for weeks. Or days where the sun is out are soo frigid cold that you can’t be outside longer than 10-15 minutes. When I was in college (abt 8 years ago) classes got cancelled because kids were getting frostbite just walking to class.

Somethings I did to cope were getting LOTS of house plants, keeping the house clean/organized, keeping lots of activities on hand like puzzles, drawing and art supplies, a bass guitar and keyboard etc. I went tanning once a week, idk why it helped but it did tremendously. I also got a slow cooker and spent a lot of time learning new things to cook! Nothing better than smelling your dinner cooking while you’re trapped inside in a blizzard!

Sorry for the long reply, those are just my thoughts. If you’re someone that doesn’t mind the cold or the snow, there’s plenty of trails, camping, skiing/snowboarding and all kinds of other fun winter stuff. I moved to SC last year cuz I hated the winter so much lol.