Why are Wisconsonites aging ,cancer victims and neurologically tapped out?

[kv7370]

Originally Posted by MKEastsider

You started out with promise, but you've since outed yourself as the most basic type of troll. Sad.

Either way, to address the few salient points you've made here, Wisconsin has a population that skews towards baby boomers who barely leave the state other than to go on tacky Florida vacations. (There's a reason this is the only place outside of Florida where Jimmy Buffett is still relevant.)

As much as I don't want to perpetuate the Milwaukee/Madison vs. Suburbs/Northwoods divide, it's relevant that this aging population pretty much dominates the culture outside of the two cities because everyone who goes to college either moves to Milwaukee or Madison, or leaves Wisconsin altogether. That has only made this population even more insular and sheltered. Even the older people in the smaller UW towns like Whitewater or Stevens Point hate college kids even though hosting a public university is the only reason their town has a self-sustaining economy. It's no wonder why politicians who attack the UW System are so popular with this crowd.

I'm oversimplifying a lot at this point, but you ought to be able to connect the dots between all of the other problems you named and having a population that generally skews older, lives in a bubble, and doesn't trust people with college degrees.

Tacky Florida vacations?! Disneyworld is the best there is. Also, your "snob" attitude does not create friendliness, it's Boring.

[MKEastsider]

Originally Posted by Hans Bueller

Yeah. That's it.

Then, by all means, tell me why I'm wrong. But just because you don't like my answer doesn't mean I am.

Originally Posted by kv7370

Tacky Florida vacations?! Disneyworld is the best there is. Also, your "snob" attitude does not create friendliness, it's Boring.

I really hope this was sarcastic, because if not... wow.

FYI, my grandfather was a dairy farmer with an 8th grade education. Yet he made it a point to take my mom and her siblings on road trips because it was important to him that his kids understand that the way things work in rural Wisconsin wasn't how they were everywhere. He'd be in his 80s now, and I think it really sucks that the generations of rural Wisconsinites that came up after him seem more than content to exist in a bubble, and write off anyone who expresses an unfamiliar attitude as a "snob." Especially when many of you don't seem to realize how that makes you just as pretentious as the actual snobs you have such contempt for.

[everwinter]

Originally Posted by MKEastsider

Either way, to address the few salient points you've made here, Wisconsin has a population that skews towards baby boomers who barely leave the state other than to go on tacky Florida vacations.
As much as I don't want to perpetuate the Milwaukee/Madison vs. Suburbs/Northwoods divide, it's relevant that this aging population pretty much dominates the culture outside of the two cities because everyone who goes to college either moves to Milwaukee or Madison, or leaves Wisconsin altogether. That has only made this population even more insular and sheltered. Even the older people in the smaller UW towns like Whitewater or Stevens Point hate college kids even though hosting a public university is the only reason their town has a self-sustaining economy. It's no wonder why politicians who attack the UW System are so popular with this crowd.

In the majority of your posts you either blame, suburbanites, small town residents, baby booomers or the elderly for the problems in this state. So basically, unless you are young & live in Milwaukee or Madison, you think they are part of the problem. Sounds like ageism as well as a lot of other negative things.

[MKEastsider]

Pretty sure I just talked up my elderly, small town grandfather in the post immediately above yours.

Either way, a lot of us are sick of it being so acceptable to blame Milwaukee (and Madison, to a lesser extent) for all of Wisconsin's problems. Yet the moment we even try to point out that the sh~t of suburbanites and small towners stinks too, we get painted with whiny, judgmental labels like "snob" and "elitist."

My grandfather was the furthest thing from a "city person" as you could get, yet he didn't have that mentality... why is it so hard for other rural Wisconsinites to do the same?

[WINH]

I really think you need to grow up a bit and pardon me but I will live where I want, Do what I want within reason without you questioning my mentality. Not everyone follows your bus people are different and have the right to be. Come back and speak 20 years from now when you have actually lived your life and talk to us again.

[MKEastsider]

Who's trying to tell anyone where to live? I don't need or want everyone to be like me, but I would appreciate it if the rural/suburban parents who send their kids to UWM and live in my neighborhood would raise them to know how to deal with cultural differences before doing so. I resent how often I find myself having to smooth over social tensions just because these kids' parents didn't care enough about the world outside of their bubble to see the value in instilling such a basic life skill.

[Drover]

Can we assume you're similarly distressed over the oh-so-worldly urban sophisticates who make spectacular boors and asses of themselves while vacationing in rural Wisconsin? Or is this just a one-way concern for you?

[MKEastsider]

Actually... yes. If anything, coming from a place where I have to live near trust fund kids with entitlement issues makes me empathize with the service workers in those towns.