After much thought and internal debate, I finally voted on the Great Lakes region as where I am from. It's where I've spent the better part of my adult life and it's home to me now. I will always miss Boston and New England at heart but I've come to love the state of Michigan, it's people and culture, food and music, and most of all, it's grittiness. There are some tough folks here in MI. that get **** done no matter how bad things are, you can knock Detroit and it's woes, but the people that built this state are some tough folks and I'm glad to call some of them friends and family.