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Does Madison have a national image as to being a special place? In the Midwest, people well know Madison is a gem of a city, as good as it gets for a mid-sized city, a state capital/college town in a beautiful setting, high quality of life, and delightfully urban for a place its size. Do people outside of our region have any sense of Madison? Does it make the radar screen? My sense is that people outside of our part of the country don't really have much of a picture in their mind of Madison. am i wrong?
ur right. in jersey nobody really knows anything about madison. except that the University is there. and state government.. it's not seen as any different from columbus ohio. just a midwestern college city
ur right. in jersey nobody really knows anything about madison. except that the University is there. and state government.. it's not seen as any different from columbus ohio. just a midwestern college city
Pretty much this. State capitol, college town, liberal, white-collar, and very, very white is the general national perception of Madison.
I don't think so. I grew up in Ohio and never gave it any thoughts. Living in Chicago I realize people here are aware of it, but I would say that outside of the surrounding state people do not know much about it.
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I've never been to Wisconsin, but I'd probably be more inclined to visit Madison over Milwaukee if I did. However it's really not somewhere I'd go out of my way for unless I was already in the Midwest, or maybe a daytrip up from Chicago.
When I lived in Boston, most people I met envisioned Madison as a small and sleepy city and didn't seem to see much of its appeal. Of course, having lived in Madison for 5 years, I knew that they were categorically incorrect, but it's hard to change perceptions. It's also a little hard because Madison is off the interstate's beaten path and, unless one is driving from Chicago to Mpls, you don't really pass it on the heavily-traveled cross-country routes. Unfortunately, I think this fact also means fewer people actually think of Madison as a place to stop and visit unless they already know what a great city it is.
Does Madison have a national image as to being a special place? In the Midwest, people well know Madison is a gem of a city, as good as it gets for a mid-sized city, a state capital/college town in a beautiful setting, high quality of life, and delightfully urban for a place its size. Do people outside of our region have any sense of Madison? Does it make the radar screen? My sense is that people outside of our part of the country don't really have much of a picture in their mind of Madison. am i wrong?
I've never been to Madison (or any city in the Midwest for that matter, including Chicago), but my perceptions of it growing up in California, has been of a liberal highly educated university town. In my mind, it fits in with cities like Boulder (which I've been to), but probably more thriving as it is also the seat of government.
The only thing I really think of about Madison is that I know the city sits on an isthmus between two lakes. I forget where I remember that from, but otherwise I always thought of it as a typical Midwestern town.
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