What's your favorite Wisconsin city? (Madison, Green Bay: live in, lawsuit, homeless)

[tanman777]

Fond du Lac!!! Has everything you need mall ect. and 1\2 way between milwaukee and green bay. also close to dells and madison.

[JoshB]

Thanks for your input tanman! Welcome to the forum!

[HelenMiller]

I do like Fon Du Lac. took the kids to the lighthouse in the park to play about once a week while I lived up that way. but I love Door County, and the Mississippi river areas too. they are both beautiful areas.
Mickey (Helen Miller)

[KateDaum]

We have enjoyed so many this past year. For smaller ones I like Bayfield, and anything in Door County. For larger we enjoyed Madison, Milwaukee, La Crosse and Appleton.

[115db]

As of right now, Madison. Why? Because Ive been there a couple of times and....well...its an all-around fun place. Middleton is right next door and its a whole nother world.

[Alt Dach]

After LONG and rigorous though I will have to say that Stevens Point is the nicest
town in WI and may well be the best small city in the USA!

[geekduo]

I would say Green Bay. My husband would say Madison.

[holly_920]

very suprised nobody mentioned appleton.
Point is a fun place....so is Madison-Going there for Halloween

[Alt Dach]

Originally Posted by Milwaukee Ronnie

I don't really think there is a rivalry. As a Milwaukeean, I don't feel much of rivalry with Madison. Honestly I never thought much of it until I moved there in the late 1990s. I mainly thought of it as a college town and state capital.

Then I moved there and I found out that apparently Madison is the Single Greatest Place in the Known World, because it has lakes, and State Street, and a "diverse population." I discovered, much to my amazement, that Madison had solved all of the urban problems that have dogged Milwaukee for decades. Madison has solved these problems, I was told, simply because the population there is smarter than anywhere else. Oh, and I was told, over and over and over and over again, that the townspeople were "progressive" and that the town had incredible "diversity" and that there were so many great restaurants there they were practically falling of the trees. I was told over and over and over again, that the town was a hotbed of creative, artistic energy, that there were artists and musicians and smart people and cool people everywhere and that everyone was just so super cool and that there was literally no other place like Madison. Anywhere.

It seemed like a nice enough town, but I guess I just wasn't seeing it. I crumpled my brow and stated what I think is the obvious: that Madison is a college town and state capital, and really is not all that unique or special. I said, sure it might have a few more restaurants than, say, Green Bay or Des Moines, and it might have a better arts scene than, say, Fort Wayne or Shreveport, but this so-called "uniqueness" possessed by Madison was an illusion. In fact, I had been to many towns that were like Madison. Towns like Boulder, Lexington, Eugene, Burlington. College towns.

It was at that point that my relationship with my new town faltered. It didn't seem that that townspeople could accept anything but their own insular, narcissistic point of view that held that they lived in Utopia. I had not fallen for Madison, far from it, I actually was turned off by it.

But that's not why I left. I left because I wanted a real job in a real industry. I didn't want to submit to a job-for-life in the bureaucratic machine that is the State and University. I left because in a few years time I had done everything there is to do in Madison, gone everywhere there is to go. I was bored with the so-called Shining City on the Hill.

Thats the probaly the best description of Madison ever penned!
In my time at UW I found ,after the intial thrill wore off, upper-middle
class kids thought it was paradise while the few kids of working class background grew to loathe it.

[Geechie North]

Gotta define "city".

Green Bay is okay. If a city has 3,000 people, Algoma is mine for Wisc.

Amazed when people think Madison is 100% liberal-left.
Must be an O'Reilly thing.

It has its share of corporate fascists who are just as nutty as any you'd see in Atlanta (where Tommy the T.'s machine is now based), or any other city.