southern eastern mi-
has this thing, where, when you are in town, it is very stylish. drive eight minutes outside of town, in any directions, and you're lost in the woods. literally. there are so many lakes, and marshes, many trunk roads are long dead ends, with branching roads in very direction between the lakes. kind of like driving onto a peninsula, only the water at the end is a giant marsh or something. it's very hilly, and the roads are skinny and dirt. it's very similar to the up in a weird way.
check some of these places out. like i said its a common setup. look at the map of mi nad you'll see the area im referring to. i would imagine you could find a nice place in the country, fifteen minutes from an expressway, and five from town, perched on the edge of a hill, on an eight mile dead end dirt road.