Great Lakes Cities

[pj3000]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Yeah, there are no cottages on Erie to my knowledge.

You seriously think that there are no cottages on Lake Erie?

It seems this discussion of Lake Erie is composed of VERY skewed perceptions by Michiganders, who only know the very shallow, swampy western end... of which the majority of the lake is nothing like.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by pj3000

You seriously think that there are no cottages on Lake Erie?

It seems this discussion of Lake Erie is composed of VERY skewed perceptions by Michiganders, who only know the very shallow, swampy western end... of which the majority of the lake is nothing like.

Well inform us.

[SFBruin]

Originally Posted by jmecklenborg

I've heard people remark that San Francisco transplants seem to be the most insufferable of all, since the region has never really recovered from being surpassed in size and importance by Los Angeles. LA doesn't even care. It's a completely one-sided rivalry. So SF takes its anger out on the rest of the United States. It's similar to how Boston people like to point out the things they have that NYC does not.

I agree.

[pj3000]

The notion that there are no cottages on Lake Erie reaches a level of absurdity that I had yet to experience on this forum.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by pj3000

The notion that there are no cottages on Lake Erie reaches a level of absurdity that I had yet to experience on this forum.

So you're going to inform us or pick an argument?

[edale]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Well inform us.

I'm not really sure what constitutes a 'cottage'. Does that just refer to a vacation home/lake house that isn't occupied year round? There's housing development literally all along Lake Erie, so I would assume at least some of those are seasonal second homes.

Anecdotally, I know a couple people with family lakehouses on the Lake Erie Islands. Kelley's, South Bass (where Put-In-Bay is), and Middle Bass Islands all have lots of 'cottages', and most of the population is seasonal, though there is a small number of year round residents.

Ohioans love a weekend on Put-In-Bay, but I think most people go to Michigan for a true lake vacation. My family only made it to Northern Michigan once, but I know towns like Harbor Springs, Petoskey, Charlevoix...all loaded with Ohioans in the summer. It's just far more remote, clean, and natural up there than anything on the southern shores of Lake Erie, which is fairly industrial and urbanized. Northern Michigan is much prettier, has more dramatic topography, is more tourist focused (Cedar Point and the islands notwithstanding) than Ohio's slice of Erie.

[Docere]

During the pandemic, a lot of seasonal residences became permanent residences.

https://storeys.com/four-canada-10-f...ttage-country/

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by pj3000

The notion that there are no cottages on Lake Erie reaches a level of absurdity that I had yet to experience on this forum.

it's a lost cause. clearly no one bothered to read my post on the previous page

The other day I read and got baited by "Why is Toronto always compared with Chicago and not Houston or Dallas?" in the Canada subforums

[edale]

Originally Posted by Wigs

it's a lost cause. clearly no one bothered to read my post on the previous page

The other day I read and got baited by "Why is Toronto always compared with Chicago and not Houston or Dallas?" in the Canada subforums

To be fair, I assume iheartthed meant the US side of Lake Erie.

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by edale

To be fair, I assume iheartthed meant the US side of Lake Erie.

There's cottages on both sides.

just because the Western end near Michigan and Toledo sucks, doesn't mean the 11th largest lake in the world by surface area (10th largest freshwater) doesn't have residences (both seasonal and year round) and decent beaches on it in Ohio, PA, NY, or Ontario, Canada.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wor...largest-lakes/

[pj3000]

Lake Erie has no cottages to my knowledge!

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by pj3000

Lake Erie has no cottages to my knowledge!

Pennsylvania is a fictional place with no lakefront. Presque Isle is a myth

[suburbanite]

Hard to tell what's a weekend cottage vs. someone's full-time residence, but there's tons of little stretches like this between Cleveland and Erie, PA.

[MolsonExport]

Several of my colleagues at work (London, Ontario) have cottages on Lake Erie, in Port Stanley and Port Bruce.

[galleyfox]

Originally Posted by suburbanite

Hard to tell what's a weekend cottage vs. someone's full-time residence, but there's tons of little stretches like this between Cleveland and Erie, PA.

Yeah, my step-grandmother in her old age lived in Ashtabula along the bluffs.

[xzmattzx]

My family has a cottage on Lake Erie, on the Canadian side.

But my interpretation of "no cottages on Erie" meant that there are seemingly (not literally) no cottages on Lake Erie in Michigan, which was the subject of the discussion at that point.

[pj3000]

^ and I would bet there are. Even if they are in the Detroit/Toledo stink hole.

[pj3000]

The “no cottages on Lake Erie” reaches Jacksonville level of preposterousness.

[benp]

The Lake Erie shore in Canada is lined with beaches and cottages, which at one time were mostly owned and visited by Buffalonians. Crystal Beach, for example, is just a few miles from the Peace Bridge, has hundreds of cottages and for decades even held a popular amusement park until it closed in 1989. Until the 1980s our family had a cottage in Thunder Bay (there is also a Thunder Bay on Lake Erie), which was closer to Buffalo.

[mrnyc]

oh for petes sake there are old traditional cottage communities all along lake erie from toledo to vermilion near cleveland. ie., lakeside is a freakin 100% classic old american chautauqua resort. on the eastern end of cleveland past suburbia it starts again. ie., geneva on the lake was an old resort area. there are also cottages on the ohio lake erie islands too. i have personally been to all of these things and pelee, where we summered for several years when i was a kid, and seen the canadian side cottages too. ok are we done yet lol??