Any Ex-Floridians Living In Madison? (moving, friendly, best)

[annkathryn]

You cannot even BEGIN to compare Wisconsinites to Floridians. We live in the Orlando area and in Wis. People in Florida have Southern hospitality. Noone is a stranger! You meet someone and they tell you their life story within minutes of meeting them. Best of all, and we found this living in Texas too, noone holds grudges and their are NO CLIQUES. Yes, it's heaven on earth and unless you live there, you will never understand especially being a Wisconsinite.

[jessysunshine]

Originally Posted by annkathryn

No one is a stranger! You meet someone and they tell you their life story within minutes of meeting them. Best of all, and we found this living in Texas too, no one holds grudges and their are NO CLIQUES.

LOL! This is funny because that's how I feel about Wisconsinites, and I've heard many people thru the years say the same thing about Wisconsinites.

[compelled to reply]

Originally Posted by jessysunshine

Actually, the people of Wisconsin overall are some of the friendliest, down-to-earth, helpful, real people I've ever met. I lived there for over ten years, and I've lived all over the U.S., too. By far, as a whole, Wisconsin has the kindest-hearted people.

It's all personal experience and what you give in. People tend to complain about "rude people" wherever they live and friendly people wherever they don't. The best thing to do is to be content with yourself.

[gold*dust1]

Originally Posted by compelled to reply

It's all personal experience and what you give in. People tend to complain about "rude people" wherever they live and friendly people wherever they don't. The best thing to do is to be content with yourself.

I couldn't have said it any better myself

[annkathryn]

Originally Posted by subclavius

I've found people in Madison to be MUCH friendlier than people in Miami (I lived in Coral Gables and Miami Lakes).

Miami is known to be unfriendly. It's all Cubans. Orlando and the Tampa area, pretty much all of Central Florida, is a whole different ballgame. People couldn't be friendlier. Live there for awhile, you'll find out. It's wonderful. Wisconsin people are very touchy, unforgiving and the drivers are downright MEAN. I don't know what makes them that way, the nationality here, low self-esteem or selfhate! Unhappy and wierd.

[subclavius]

Best of all, and we found this living in Texas too, noone holds grudges and their are NO CLIQUES

As someone who went to junior high, high school, and got a college degree in Texas, I would have to say that it certainly wasn't my experience. Texas schools have rigid, tightly defined and strictly enforced social structures. The neighborhoods and suburbs that fed them were exactly the same. It was this way in the big cities and small towns I lived in.

Madison has cliques just like Texas has cliques. The difference is in Madison there's much lower barriers and more communication between cliques, whereas in the 15 or so years I lived in Texas such a thing was frowned upon. Go to Harmony Bar & Grill in Madison on Friday night and you'll see a table of hipsters sitting next to a table of frustrated housewives, next to a table of the LGBT community, sitting next to a regular family, sitting next to some blue collar workers who are sitting next to some Harley guys. Not only would you not see something like that in Texas, where they pride themselves on a penal system just as rigid and unforgiving as their society (let's not forget in Texas they execute retarded men and even argued before the supreme court for the right to do it), but in Madison you'll see members of the various groups above occasionally talking to each other throughout the evening. In Texas, they would be shunning the table of LGBTs, unless the entire business was geared for that community, in which case the families and blue collar workers would be out of the picture and at a different place.

Texans don't hold a grudge? Ask someone at UT what they think of Oklahoma, or their fellow Texans at Texas A&M. Most Texans still say "Remember the Alamo" fer chrissakes, in fact they've been saying it regularly since 1836. And even if a Texan is a 3rd generation Hispanic American was born & raised in Dallas or any other Texas city, in the eyes of most Texans he or she is just a "Mexican" who should be speaking English at all times.

Madison is far from perfect, but one of the specific reasons why I like it better than Texas is the lower borders between social groups. The difference is so great it was the very first thing I noticed about Madison. Madison has the same cliques as Texas, but interaction between the cliques is more common and not as discouraged by peers in their respective groups.

[annkathryn]

Originally Posted by subclavius

As someone who went to junior high, high school, and got a college degree in Texas, I would have to say that it certainly wasn't my experience. Texas schools have rigid, tightly defined and strictly enforced social structures. The neighborhoods and suburbs that fed them were exactly the same. It was this way in the big cities and small towns I lived in.

Madison has cliques just like Texas has cliques. The difference is in Madison there's much lower barriers and more communication between cliques, whereas in the 15 or so years I lived in Texas such a thing was frowned upon. Go to Harmony Bar & Grill in Madison on Friday night and you'll see a table of hipsters sitting next to a table of frustrated housewives, next to a table of the LGBT community, sitting next to a regular family, sitting next to some blue collar workers who are sitting next to some Harley guys. Not only would you not see something like that in Texas, where they pride themselves on a penal system just as rigid and unforgiving as their society (let's not forget in Texas they execute retarded men and even argued before the supreme court for the right to do it), but in Madison you'll see members of the various groups above occasionally talking to each other throughout the evening. In Texas, they would be shunning the table of LGBTs, unless the entire business was geared for that community, in which case the families and blue collar workers would be out of the picture and at a different place.

Texans don't hold a grudge? Ask someone at UT what they think of Oklahoma, or their fellow Texans at Texas A&M. Most Texans still say "Remember the Alamo" fer chrissakes, in fact they've been saying it regularly since 1836. And even if a Texan is a 3rd generation Hispanic American was born & raised in Dallas or any other Texas city, in the eyes of most Texans he or she is just a "Mexican" who should be speaking English at all times.

Madison is far from perfect, but one of the specific reasons why I like it better than Texas is the lower borders between social groups. The difference is so great it was the very first thing I noticed about Madison. Madison has the same cliques as Texas, but interaction between the cliques is more common and not as discouraged by peers in their respective groups.

You have the exact opposite opinion of others who haver moved and lived in the south or even Colorado, which is friendly and outgoing. You don't say you have a family so I guess you know the "bar atmosphere. That is not a comparison whatsoever to other places. You can go only as far South as Indiana, to get away from this "clique" Wisconsin boredom. We as middle class people were invited to a pool party wedding at a millionaires home in Dallas and so were other people of different classes. It was soo refreshing. People in Wisconsin are too hung up on themselves.

[beetpapp]

Originally Posted by annkathryn

Noone is a stranger! You meet someone and they tell you their life story within minutes of meeting them. Best of all, and we found this living in Texas too, noone holds grudges and their are NO CLIQUES. Yes, it's heaven on earth and unless you live there, you will never understand especially being a Wisconsinite.

Generalize much?

[beetpapp]

Originally Posted by annkathryn

Miami is known to be unfriendly. It's all Cubans.

Originally Posted by annkathryn

Wisconsin people are very touchy, unforgiving and the drivers are downright MEAN. I don't know what makes them that way, the nationality here, low self-esteem or selfhate! Unhappy and wierd.

Prejudiced much?

Are you seriously calling ALL folks in WI touchy, unforgiving, mean, unhappy and weird???

FYI, not everyone on this board are Wisconsinites. But I know it might be a stretch for you to consider a less dichotomous worldview. I don't think it's WI that is the problem here.

[annkathryn]

Originally Posted by beetpapp

Prejudiced much?

Are you seriously calling ALL folks in WI touchy, unforgiving, mean, unhappy and weird???

FYI, not everyone on this board are Wisconsinites. But I know it might be a stretch for you to consider a less dichotomous worldview. I don't think it's WI that is the problem here.

Lol, Go on thinking that way. I don't think you've lived in many places.End of conversation.