Chicago-land or Milwaukee-land? (Gurnee, Buffalo, Cleveland: job market, taxes, living)

[zz4guy]

Which one would you choose and why? Interested in lifestyle differences, living expenses (taxes, housing, etc), and job markets.

Anybody lived in both areas and have a perspective on their differences?

[mattywo85]

I would choose Chicago just because its Chicago and what it represents.

[Avengerfire]

This belongs in City vs. City.

[ccjarider]

Lived in both metro areas. Each has pluses and minuses but overall both are populated with harworking people of misdwestern stock and thus are not that diffferent. Chicago is definetly more mulit-cultural though. I get a different language lesson every time I go to the grocery store here in Chicago area.

In Milwaukee the biggest cultural challenge is whether to wear the 97 GB Packer Superbowl sweater or the #4 Jersey to the Friday fishfry.

[edsg25]

I chose Chiwaukee, a high powered urban region that stretches along the southwest shores of Lake Michigan. It is a region with two major cities, the one to the south a global collossus with every urban amenity possible and the one to the north built on a smaller scale which allows for an accessibility to its own fine offerings that makes it exceedingly user friendly.

No two US cities face out to blue open water in such a delightful way as Chicago and Milwaukee do since coastal cities are buffeted from their oceans and Cleveland and Buffalo don't have Chicago's and Milwaukee's lakefronts.

So why choose. It's nice to be in Chiwaukee. Its heart may be on a roller coaster in Gurnee or an outlet mall in Kenosha, but is soul is definitely in Chicago and Milwaukee.

[oakparkdude]

Alternatively, you could look into Milcago.

[mattywo85]

That would be interesting to see Chicago and Milwaukee become one mega city.