What's the snow like in Wisconsin? (Milwaukee, Madison: daycare, house, university)

[TheTransientTranny]

Okay, I'm betting someone on here is getting sick of me asking about snow on the Minnesota and Michigan forums. Any moment now I expect to receive a PM along the lines of "Take Chemistry 101, fool.."

Seriously, I can not believe my geography skills are that bad. For some reason I thought it went like this: ND/SD, WI, MN, MI, yada, yada and yada. Now, after seeing MN situated up there beside ND and away from the Great Lakes, I can see why MN doesn't really get that much snow. Any snow up north is probably going to be of the powdery kind, yes?

So......what I'm wondering is this. Does WI get as much, or close to the amount of, snow as MI? I've been seeing all these pictures of MI over on the MI picture thread, and admit that it is one hell of a beautiful state. The thing that leaves me a bit leery? Yeap, you guessed it. Jobs. Or lack of them.

If WI has a lot of snow and is a great place to live, that is awesome. I would only have one other concern. Does EVERYONE up there say "Wis-cAHn-sin?

[Megan1967]

Originally Posted by TheTransientTranny

Does EVERYONE up there say "Wis-cAHn-sin?

Yes, almost everyone pronounces the name of our state correctly up here. Would you tell the citizens of Louisville, KY that they live in Loo-is-ville, KY rather than Loo-y-ville, KY? I think not.

Natives get to dictate how things are pronounced.

[JoshB]

Originally Posted by Megan1967

Yes, almost everyone pronounces the name of our state correctly up here. Would you tell the citizens of Louisville, KY that they live in Loo-is-ville, KY rather than Loo-y-ville, KY? I think not.

Natives get to dictate how things are pronounced.

Exactly.


Megan hit it right on. last year the southern part of Wisconsin seen more snow than Wausau, Minneapolis etc. It just depends. You say Michigan is beautiful, I'd agree. It's just as beautiful as Wisconsin. Now for jobs the u.p. is economically depressing, isn't much happening besides logging etc. The mitt on the other hand may have more options for jobs.

[#Littledog]

Originally Posted by JoshB

Exactly.


Megan hit it right on. last year the southern part of Wisconsin seen more snow than Wausau, Minneapolis etc. It just depends. You say Michigan is beautiful, I'd agree. It's just as beautiful as Wisconsin. Now for jobs the u.p. is economically depressing, isn't much happening besides logging etc. The mitt on the other hand may have more options for jobs.

No jobs in lower Michigan either. I'm from the Detroit area but I've lived in WI for years. I think Wisconsin gets just as much snow as Michigan. What kind of job are you looking for?

[Hntr]

It depends on where in Wisconsin you plan to live. Normally northern Wisconsin gets more snow than the southern region. I used to live in Milwaukee and had relatives in central Wisconsin. It always seemed like they had snow on the ground two weeks or more after our snow was gone.
I'm sure northern Wisconsin has snow even later than that.

[KateDaum]

We live up north. Last winter we had less snow then Madison which was hammered. We can't wait for the snow to start. I love winter.

[Dea13]

Right along Lake Michigan we usually get snow affect so totals are higher than west of us. We spend quite a bit of time in NW & NCentral WI and I wouldn't say that the snow in northern WI is powdery. WI has higher humidity year-round and we get some powder but we also get our share of slushy, nasty stuff. Freezing rain not as common but we have our share of that and black ice on the rural roads with no streetlights isn't too much fun. When I think of powder I think of a WY or MT snow that blows away and just disappears rather than melts due to the lack of moisture.

Depending on what kind of job you're looking for, WI can be tight on jobs also.

[tmhcr72]

I grew up on the Northern Wisconsin/Michigan border. What is the snow like? Cold, wet, powdery, thick, deep, etc..etc...etc... I used to tell people we had two seasons. 8 months of winter and 4 months of everything else. I was married in April and got a blizzard for my gift. I remember 80 below with wind chill factor and snow that buried my car. For some reason we had a front door on our house that opened out not in.....yep you guessed it we had to call someone to shovel us out. We had so much snow one year that when we tried to shovel a path from the front door to the end of the driveway, the snow banks were over our heads. Another time, after several snowfalls and plowing our front parking area, we could climb up the snowbanks and walk straight onto our roof.

And I loved it!! I miss it now that my winters are just rainfall.

[TheTransientTranny]

Really, my friends, I have no career that I hope to bring up there. Nor do I even work. I'm one of those at-home-parents. It's just cheaper for me to stay home and watch our son while my wife works, then for me to work in a factory that doesn't pay squat and spend half the paycheck on fuel to get to work, and on daycare. I plan on getting back into university soon, and most likely will major in business administration.

[JoshB]

Originally Posted by TheTransientTranny

Really, my friends, I have no career that I hope to bring up there. Nor do I even work. I'm one of those at-home-parents. It's just cheaper for me to stay home and watch our son while my wife works, then for me to work in a factory that doesn't pay squat and spend half the paycheck on fuel to get to work, and on daycare. I plan on getting back into university soon, and most likely will major in business administration.

I would look at Wisconsin. I'm going to be honest, It's hard to pick one region of the state over another. The SW portion has awesome bluffs which I've photographed on the Photo thread. The North Central has beautiful lakes and farther north is sky high fir trees. You have moraines and ridges in the east south east part of the state with many lakes in Waukesha County.


It won't be easy unless you have a city in mind.