I live in Midland, MI and am originally from Saginaw, MI. Together they make up 2/3 of Michigan's Tri-Cities (the third is Bay City) which I use as the setting of my games. I've blurred the three cities together and absorbed several of the smaller towns in the region into a single haphazard sprawl. I like it because I know the area and it's fun to mess up and speculate on the future of my home area.