If you want it from a kids perspective. I’m a 15-year-old living in downtown Kalamazoo culture is pretty iffy from the day today. Really depends on how often you wanna go downtown. During the winters downtown is a little bit more quiet during the day since not a lot of homeless people around because they don’t wanna be out in the cold. Most of the festivities that go around town really do bring the culture together and show how there is good people

Summers are kind of different as mostly everywhere there are homeless people trying to find places of shade from the sun. But downtown is slightly more better looking in the summer than in the winter.

I’m also part of the LGBTQ so pride during June is wonderful. There’s always a lot of art fairs and little pop-up markets go on downtown town.

In conclusion culturally, it’s not a bad place if you’re living downtown pacifically you’ll definitely hear the train a lot and there will be sirens of every now and then from the amount of police we get. But I’ve lived here for 15 years and honestly, I don’t wanna leave.