Well, Michigan isn't exactly "east coast".

From New York on a major corporate network: round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 75.940/79.012/81.289/1.950 ms

That's similar to the ping times to my current VPS on the West Coast.

From Metro Boston: round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 100.297/104.900/110.846/3.406 ms

From NY on FiOS: ~80ms ping