I'll confess that I attended graduate school at MIchigan and also Michigan State and USC (!). The year I spent in Ann Arbor in 1974-75 was one of the best of my life. Because I was a grad student, I had no contact with the undergrads or the football program. All the grad students were from other states, many from the East Coast, and were just there for a short time to get their degree and move on. They were generally all terrific people, and Ann Arbor as a whole was a fun and magical, totally in tune with the times and a wealth of interesting people to meet.
At SC, I got a whiff of the undergrad and fraternity culture and disliked it greatly. East Lansing was another fun college town but not as hip as A2 or LA.
But none of that compared with the Notre Dame experience. I'm a third generation Domer to the bone.
I may get booted, but I'll also 'fess that I don't hate Michigan. I wasn't taught to generalize and hate huge groups of people.
By the way, there is a nice Newman Center in Ann Arbor.