Almost every time my wife, Heather, and I used to go on vacation, we’d spend time during the car or plane ride home going back and forth about how nice it would be to live full-time in the destination we had just visited. By the time we got home, we inevitably talked ourselves out of the idea. Too hot. Too cold. Too expensive. Too isolated. Too big. Too small. Too … whatever. No matter the destination, we came up with a reason why it wasn’t realistic. That is, until we visited Traverse City, Michigan. Despite being Michigan residents and lifelong Midwesterners, Traverse City was hiding in plain sight from us. It’s best known as the “cherry capital” of the United States. While the town swells with hundreds of thousands of tourists during peak summer months, Traverse City’s full-time population is only around 17,000 residents. Traverse City is located on the …