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Given the OP's desire for good public transportation, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Chicago. Reasonable rents can be found there, and Chicago has one of the better public transport networks in the country. Good baseball? Now that's another story, except maybe on the south side.
The rents in Chicago that are cheap tend to be in the poorer neighborhoods, hell even some of those poor neighborhoods charge an arm and a leg
You don't generally associate Chicago with cheap. Sure it's got good public transportation and crazy baseball fans, but you have to be able to afford to live there.
Milwaukee has a very passionate fan base just as STL. Here is a picture of fans setting up tents waiting for Brewers tickets to go on sale. Theses goofs camp outside for a whole week and get drunk every day just to be first in line to buy tickets for opening day. The tents usually stretch around the stadium, I did this one year and that was it.
I still think STL is your best bet with Milwaukee second. Any city is going to be good on transportation as long as you live downtown or in the city.
Milwaukee has a very passionate fan base just as STL. .
Milwaukee fans have a passion for drinking a lot of beer before heading into Miller Park (and during the game). Whenever the Brewers are losing (which has been most of the past 20 years), they're disguised as empty seats.
Milwaukee has a nice stadium and seemingly a nice city, but let's not try to paint it as a passionate baseball town. They're still second-fiddle, by a long shot, to the Packers.
It has to be the Twins. I grew up 24 miles from Downtown MPLS and would go to Twins games 3-4 times a week (when they were in town). We would go on college night which coincidentially was on dollar dog night, so we would get seats for $4. Other nights they were $8 seats. That was at the dome a few years ago, but prices will be the same for Target Field, probably $15
Milwaukee fans have a passion for drinking a lot of beer before heading into Miller Park (and during the game). Whenever the Brewers are losing (which has been most of the past 20 years), they're disguised as empty seats.
Milwaukee has a nice stadium and seemingly a nice city, but let's not try to paint it as a passionate baseball town. They're still second-fiddle, by a long shot, to the Packers.
Not anymore! when the Brewers were owned by Bud Selig and then his sister their was a lot of disgust with those two owners. Now we have a great baseball stadium and a new owner and a payroll consistently in the 80-90 million dollar range and a competitive team in the last 5 years has brought a rebirth of baseball fans.
The Brewers are second fiddle during Packer season and this is a huge football state on top of it. I don't see the Brewers slipping into the 20M payroll area anytime soon with our new owner so our fan support will only continue to grow.
Given the OP's desire for good public transportation, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Chicago. Reasonable rents can be found there, and Chicago has one of the better public transport networks in the country. Good baseball? Now that's another story, except maybe on the south side.
One of the OP's criterion was that the city be "VERY inexpensive" and Chicago is the most expensive city in the Midwest.
I would say St. Louis, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh are your best bets. Milwaukee has a pretty crappy mass transit system, otherwise I'd recommend it.
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