I live in Saginaw and people always ask, “where is Saginaw?”

A typical answer is 2 hours north of Detroit or 2 1/2 hours NE of Grand Rapids.  Would it be wrong to say that Saginaw is in Central Michigan?  The area of Michigan that Saginaw is located in used to be known as the Tri-Cities but a few years ago was re-named/branded as Great Lakes Bay Region.

Saginaw is actually very easy to get to.  It is on I-75 with goes all the way from Canada to the bottom of Florida.  At one time Saginaw was a booming economic center but now it has a bad reputation for unemployment, violence and poverty.