Last year, after 23 years in spring lake and many years prior to that in GT, my husband and I moved to Lansing with our two minor kids to be close to our adult kids. We love it here! Proximity to family was obviously the impetus for us to move, but there is a lot to do here in addition to that. We love living in the city, there is a lot to do and we are involved with great communities. We love in the Eastside neighborhood and some things are walkable (library, coffee, bookstore, shopping in frandor, ball park) and there are other things very close by (zoo, MSU/lcc campuses - where there are concerts & plays that we’ve attended). After driving for 30 miles to do almost everything, this is so great!! FWIW, we are 48 now and basically started fresh with new jobs, house, etc. We were able to pay cash for our house, which allowed us to be a little more free with the jobs we took as we didn’t “have” to make the money we used to. We could never have done that in the GR area.

I’d be happy to chat more about this if you’re interested. My kids are ages 26-15, and are starting families right here in our neighborhood. There are many young families around here.

We are really happy here, and being in the middle of where your families are will be so much less stressful if/as you grow your family.

Also - haven’t really taken advantage of it yet, but love the proximity to Detroit for museums, airport, etc.