Thursday, March 22, 2007
U.P. Population Becoming Manageable
The Upper Peninsula's population is dropping slightly causing the overpopulation of the last century to diminish somewhat! Late figures claim 312,153 diehards make their homes here in the 300 mile east west and 150 mile north south diamond shaped stretch of woods and wolves, snow and stones, and poverty and pot holes! This figure of 312,153 is down just a bit from previous years as old folks are buried and young folks flee to the prosperity and the excitement of life anywhere but here! Our Upper Peninsula's population is close to equalling the population of the Ann Arbor metro area which is Washtenaw County downstate. That area is made up of 458 square miles or only 1/36th of the 16452 square miles of the beautiful Upper Peninsula! People down there by Ann Arbor must have to be careful not to step on one another! Here in the U.P there are times when we have to look hard to just find another person! If you happen to check the map I linked notice that the U.P. has only one city worth mentioning on the initial view.
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3 comments:
But undoubtedly that population figure doesn't include the 100,000 hermits in the woods.
I think the count was the total of pickups registered in the various counties mutiplied by three and a half. That's usually the number of humans you see in a pickup going to the store on Friday night. That number was verified by counting the number of Yoopers that showed up at some the snowmobile races and a couple of fishing derbys of course geographically distributed so the count was statistically correct.
The UP in the past had a lot of hermits in the woods but now there are very few. The wolves ate them. Many escaped the wolves and now live in the metro areas like Trout Creek and Shingleton.
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