Why I Left Holland Michigan

This is the reason Why I Left Holland Michigan....

My name is Vaughn Greathouse and I am an experienced real estate agent. I have helped hundreds make a move into and around the west Michigan area for years. I would love to talk and see IF I can help you too!

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⭐ Five Star Real Estate LLC | 4565 Wilson Ave SW Grandville, Michigan 49418

Vaughn Greathouse - Realtor®
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[kathryndamron]

FYI. Grand Rapids is 30 minutes away; 30 minutes.

[toneb]

Every reason why you left is every reason why i want to move there😅

[rampartranger]

Whatever snow Grand Rapids gets, Holland gets double, …real snow! Though Temps in Holland in winter are actually a tad warmer than Grand Rapids. … and a bit cooler in summer

[michaelmelling]

Holland is an absolute gem compared to so many other places in the country that are now crumbling into pieces.
And this is a great video, btw!👍
May 11, 2023
P.S. You might have made a mention that the sidewalks (and streets??) in the downtown area are heated in the winter, so THAT'S a plus!!

[forestpunks]

I left Dallas for Holland 10 yrs ago and it was the best decision of my life. I love the small feel and the lakes.

With Grand Rapids only half an hour away, why would you want to be anywhere else?

[janelleveenstra]

I’m from Houston and moved to Holland, and while we moved for a job opportunity and it’s a great place to raise our growing family, I look forward to leaving. I need more food options, stores, entertainment, and diversity. So I get this video so much. Holland ain’t for everybody!

[mikeslaton]

Holland is so close to Grand Rapids it's essentially a suburb. The drive to the local airport from my house in Savannah or my other place In Tampa is further....take an Uber. And Downtown Grand Rapids is really nice

[davidturner]

The population of Holland is very misleading considering the city is only on the south side of Lake Mac. Many more people in the townships as well.

[pinheadjohnny]

I lived there for eight months back in 1988-1989 when the mall first opened. I worked all the time so didn't get out much. I still have a soft spot for the town, not sure why other then it's a part of my history.

[guyjwalker]

I am in Holland for Tulip Time. I booked a hotel and tt tickets for several thousand dollars. I had a couple glasses of wine in the
Courtyard on Wed midweek while waiting for a doordash delivery of medication for my wife. Once the delivery arrived, my wife and I purchased two 12 ounce bottles of wine for our room. Shockingly the front desk cut us off from any more beverages for a week. Very Odd and without explanation.

[wafflesmomforlife]

Wow, we plan on visiting Grand Rapids in June and had planned on driving through Kalamazoo to look around both places for a possible move. I now want to add Holland into our road trip because of your video, lol! In fact, because of time, if it comes down to it, we may switch from looking at Kalamazoo to instead looking at Holland!! Just liking the sound of that small town feel, although the cold weather may be the very thing that stops my good feelings about this place, lol!! Will possibly contact you further in regards to some questions about all 3 cities.

[ForwardLooking-zb]

Many great valid points, but many stem from the simple fact that Holland is a very small city and not a major metro area. So of course, Taylor Swift will not be putting on a concert at the Holland Civic Center any time soon. However, most grown-ass adults with real full-time jobs have more important things to do than stand in line waiting for Taylor Swift to belt out a few tunes that will never sound as good as they do on a quality stereo system at home for free.... after the sound engineers fix her voice.

However despite its superficial beauty that everyone admires, Holland cannot seem to resolve the issues with the lake that it does actually sit on, which is Lake Macatawa. Holland does not sit on Lake Michigan. It's Lake Macatawa, and it has the color and odor of raw fecal sewerage. Now it's obvious that any town innovative enough to have the largest snowmelt system in the USA, has the know-how to fix the lake, and everyone in Holland knows what must be done, but they are not doing it. It's called run off and the build up of undesirable particulates and sediments.. If Holland would green itself up and plant more trees, as in 15, 000 or 25, 000 trees (as opposed to five trees), and install ground cover landscaping all over the area, this would greatly reduce the run-off and eventually the cesspool known locally as Lake Macatawa would improve.

Instead of solving the basic water problems with Lake Macatoilet, Holland would rather spend 10 years discussing the development of a city waterfront. But a waterfront on what? A smelly filthy barfalicious lake! Frankly, I am surprised the big shots in Holland want to run their fancy boats through water that has more crap in it than an overflowing privy. Now these are problems worth talking about. Who cares about seeing huge concert venues when they feel like barfing due to the odorous lake?

And while Lake Michigan is gorgeous, it is by far the most deadly Great Lake. When the red flags are up, that means don't swim due to rip current conditions that will take you far from shore and over your head in rough water. So unless you relish the sensation of waterboarding, do not get into the water above your knees when the red flags are flying. And if you are determined to do so, please wear a life preserver. Remember, Lake Michigan is not a swimming pool. It is a drowning machine. Anyone with young children should become fully aware of just how dangerous Lake Michigan is. Please don't let your idiotic show-off teenagers jump off the piers. The have no clue what they are jumping pier currents.... and no girl is worth drowning over no matter how cute she is.

And one more bonus point worth complaining about. Holland does not have a City owned and city run public marina so middle-class folks can enjoy lake life on their small sailboat on Macatoilet. Instead, the residents need to cough up at least $5000 in slip fees per year to run their ragtag boat across the polluted waters of Macatoilet. Now of course, if you are Betsy DeVos you probably have that amount of cash in your jeans pocket, but if you are like the rest of us, that's a whole bunch of dough.

[rockman]

2 things.
A Holland is massive and please don't move farther south please cause the place I live in is about 5k people so I like it small lol

B Holland is where everything is at in the area

[StevenDerks-jj]

At least you said Kollen right, most people put a S on the end like they do with Meijer.

[MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia]

Holland Michigan is rated happiest city in America. Why he never mentioned.? Crime is also twice less than the national average …Also heated streets and sidewalks are in Holland…first on the USA to install it. Largest Dutch settlement in the USA too. The Dutch also played a role to help the African American community in Chicago back in the 60s not to mention provide them buses when the mayor stopped their public transportation.

[IrvingOh]

Vaughn G!! I have no idea how I found this, but it’s good to see you’re doing well old friend. Hope you remember me 😅

[kenchambers]

Is the summer weather mild and beautiful there ?

[brandoncota]

Great to hear your perspective, Vaughn. My mother’s family is from the Holland area. I visited Holland nearly every summer as a kid to visit relatives or sail with my grandparents, who lived in Ann Arbor, but kept their boat at Eldean’s marina. What a blast! I ended-up going to Hope College for my undergrad after finishing high school in the Maryland suburbs of D.C. Living there was a far cry from visiting. I’m Dutch on my mom’s side and Mexican on my dad’s, so I fit right in, hehe, but coming from D.C., I soon missed the diversity of people and cultures I was used to. In such a small town, people certainly keep an eye on each-other, which has its ups and downs. Once I was familiar with the town, it offered infrequent distractions, which made it an ideal place to study. As soon as I graduated from Hope, I hot-footed it to Chicago—the homogeneity of the culture in Holland became oppressive. There was one Jewish professor at Hope (I don’t know how he got around the requirement that faculty had to sign a commitment to Christ document to teach there) and one outspokenly liberal Latino professor, who was constantly in trouble with the provost for the loud, leftist editorials he regularly submitted to the Holland Sentinel. During my last two years at Hope (‘00-‘01), there was a massive, heated and seemingly unending “Is it Okay to be Gay” debate on campus. One student group would have an LGBTQ rights speaker present, then some other group would have a pray the gay away type speaker. UGH. For real? What a waste of time and brain cells. Smile and nod, people, then RUN AWAY! Haha. After many years and a good turn around the world, I’m quite happy living in Detroit these days and rather enjoy a brief visit to Holland every now and then. Kudos to you, Vaughn. I’m impressed you lasted as long as you did there, but I absolutely understand how you’d be happier living in GR. Thanks for this honest and positive look into Holland, Michigan.

[BrittanyMorgan-gnyn]

How diverse would you say it is? We are a mixed family looking to move to MI from Kansas and holland sounds perfect

[davidknutsonsr]

DO YOU STILL SHOW HOUSES IN HOLLAND AND AREA? Were be visiting soon would be interesting in seeing some houses in area and near where our son live in Holland.