My day yesterday/Michigan and Ohio differences

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Yesterday was a tiring day. We went and saw the new Ghostbusters movie (which was pretty good, no worries I won't give spoilers) and then ended up in Michigan. I live near the Ohio/Michigan border so this isn't as far away as it sounds. We went to Michigan and went to IKEA which was a first for all of us. We then went to Fazolis for dinner on our way home. None of us had been to IKEA before and we wanted to see what the big deal was and it was such a big store and we were surprised at how affordable the store was. It had been a while since my husband and I had been in Michigan and we forgot how much of a difference there actually is between Ohio and Michigan. The roads in Michigan are about a thousand times more terrible than Ohio and Ohio has some terrible roads but they are worse in Michigan. Michigan also has things more spread out and has a lot more set up as far as bike trails and walking paths than Ohio. Ohio has some of bike trails and walking paths but not quite like Michigan. In Ohio, we have a lot of country and farmland but in Michigan, we've found their cities are more spread out. In Ohio, a lot of things are stacked up next to each other. Everything in the city is next to each other and then you get farmland for miles and then there's a city and once again everything is right there and then more farmland. I've found in Michigan their cities just seem more spread out all over the city instead of all together. It was just an interesting difference. The driving in Michigan at least where we were (I'm sure it's much worse in bigger cities/I have been stuck in traffic in Detroit before so I know there are exceptions) seemed like there was a lot less traffic. In Ohio most of our towns and cities there are cars on top of cars even in our smaller towns. I live in a small town and the traffic on any given day is worse than it was in any part of Michigan we traveled through last night. It was such an odd difference between states even though we border each other once we crossed the border everything just seemed different and you wouldn't think you'd notice any big differences so quickly but you do. I can't quite put into words all of the differences but there were so many.