Wisconsin, Why Live Here ?

[Cha Ching]

Originally Posted by Milwaukee City

Yeah Boca Raton, Delray Beach are just the pits. So there is no place in america with cheap taxes that's a good place to live, huh? Oh yeah dallas is terrible also.

Dallas has its good points, but also bad ones. I'm a native Texan.

* The traffic blows Milwaukee out of the water.

* The heat can be unliveable. I moved up here because I figured if I needed to be inside 6 months of the year, I want it to be the crappy half. I'm talking over 100 for at least the entire month of August.

* Its either feast or famine in the rain department. You don't just have delicate showers like you do up here. It either rains the entire month (with pea green skies and tornado cells- since you're right where the moist gulf air and the dry Canadian air meet), or you don't see anything for months.

* You get hurricanes come through from the other direction during hurricane season.

* Bugs the size of sanitation trucks. That includes flea infestations from your pets since no snow means nothing to kill the larvae. This means bombing your entire house, getting the pets dipped, and spraying your yard all at the same time in addition to investing in combative treatment for your pet.

* Because of the elasticity of the soil (and the massive variations in rainfall), you have to "water" the foundation of your house. Because we don't have basements in Texas (water tables are high, and in places they would have to blast into solid rock), you have slab foundations that can crack with the moisture variations. You might save more on taxes, but you'll pay a fortune in foundation watering and air conditioning. I've paid over $100 just on a 1-bedroom apartment for AC before.

Alternately, the Tex Mex food rocks.

I moved to Wisconsin just to experience a summer where I could walk outside and inhale without choking from the heat. I LOVE it here.

[Milwaukee City]

When I lived in Houston it was amazing! I loved every minute of it. Prior to Houston I was living in Baton Rouge and that's humidity. So naturally by the time I arrived in northern Houston I felt like I was in heaven compared to Louisiana.