Beyond the Bubble: Perceptions of Drug Crime in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
For the first 18 years of my life, I lived in what I would call an isolated community.
I have experienced a certain stigma attached to growing up in the Upper Peninsula. It usually relates to the limited resources that are available. It almost feels as if you are in a bubble from the rest of the world, but you’re living on the outside of the bubble. You truly see how isolated communities can be. There were students at my high school who had never been to the Lower Peninsula, only a 30-minute drive away from where we lived.