First off, if you could provide some additional / more details in terms of what you are looking for in terms of a community, buying or renting (and a rough budget if buying), what you prefer (more ruralish or more urbanish), etc. - stuff like that - it might help us better advise you.
There are probably 40 different suburban communities that make up metropolitan Milwaukee, so without more detail, we are kind of shooting fish in a barrel.
Having said that...
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Originally Posted by mcmover
I have been looking at the West Allis area. Is this a good place to live?
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Depends upon by what you mean "good".
I would live in some parts of West Allis and there is nothing in the world *wrong* with WA, however, having said that, it wouldn't be my top choice or near it for the metro area. Why? A matter of personal taste / preference.
West Allis is an inner ring suburb directly bordering to Milwaukee. That makes access quite good and a positive of WA.
It is a more "urban" suburb in that for the most part, one cannot tell much of a difference for most of WA between it and bordering portions of Milwaukee (this is similar to other suburbs Wauwatosa and Shorewood - albeit in different ways bordering different areas of MKE).
One virtuous quality of WA is that it is one of the more affordable suburbs in all of metro Milwaukee housing and apartment rental wise. One can buy more house in WA than in many other suburban communities.
WA is an old, established, fairly large Milwaukee suburb. There is no growth really there, but it will keep plugging along at its size.
Overall, WA has a reputation of being a more blue collar, corner pub, NASCAR-loving, Pabst Blue Ribbon-drinking working man's community. Not anything wrong with that, and surely that is a huge, broad generalization. But much of WA will feel very much like that. That might make WA great to some and horrible to others - just depends upon what you like and what you are looking for.
Lots of families in WA for sure. "Single life" would be more akin to the corner sports pub on the block rather than a swanky, hip new trendy bar - again, for better or worse.
Western West Allis (say, west of 100th Street through 124th street) in many ways feels a bit different from the rest of West Allis. That portion feels a hare more like a New Berlin (more classically suburban and a bit more un-blue-collarish). Probably if I lived in 'Stallis, this would be the part I would prefer.
Anyway, it is fairly reliably safe and affordable. The rest is just a matter of personal preference or taste.
Other communities you may wish to consider would be Milwaukee itself (Bay View and Washington Heights areas are really nice among others), Greendale, Wauwatosa, Brookfield, Franklin, Greenfield...but there are so many others too.
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