Former Wisconsinites...where did you move to and how do you like it in comparison to WI? (grocery, street)

[mjstef]

Originally Posted by ccjarider

Same thing with Oregon.

Maybe WI's winters are a positive! Keeps out the riff-raff.
I don't know if many Californians have discovered WI yet. Kind of hope they don't.

They are like locusts - they move from town to town/state to state - ruining everything their path.

No joke on the Locusts.....

[Rynldsbr]

Glad you enjoy it there. I grew up in the Pike Lake neighborhood on 144 and it was an amazing place to grow up (till jr high). Then we moved to the metropolis of Hazelhurst...

Would love to someday pick up a chunk of land up there again and enjoy summers playing in the Chequamegon - just need to find the gold at the end of the rainbow first.

[Teacher Terry]

Moved to Nevada for a job 23 years ago. I would never go back. I love the mild 4 seasons and the beauty with low humidity. Plus there is so much to do here.

[augiedogie]

Work took us to many places which we did not choose.

[chiociolliscalves]

Originally Posted by mjstef

I left the mountains of Northwest Montana and moved to the Wisconsin Northwoods West of Minocqua 3 years ago. Real estate is HALF of Northwest Montana, Taxes are less than half and auto insurance is about 40% of what i paid in Montana. Jobs here in Northern Wisconsin pay the same or more and the fishing is better. More variety than just trout. California has ruined Montana.......

I think we may have had this conversation before, but I'll be a broken record. I love the mountains and love the West. When I was young, I dreamed of living in Montana or Idaho. As I got older, I finally realized that the places I loved to visit aren't necessarily the best places to live. There's a reason the Upper Midwest consistently measures out with the highest quality of life of any region. I understand the people who don't like having four seasons, particularly the elderly. Frankly, I'm kind of grateful that the four seasons weed out the younger ones who incessantly complain about them. But something else I've learned is at play here, too: people who get bored are usually boring people. Conversely, interesting people usually are interesting because they have a lot of interests. As a result, you rarely hear them complain about being bored or that living in a certain place affords them no interests or gives them nothing to do. If you're a boring person and get bored a lot, you almost certainly rely on others to entertain you. The problem isn't where you live, the problem is that you have few, if any interests, and are unwilling to try to develop new ones. If you can't find things to do at all times of the year in northern Wisconsin, you're probably one of those boring people who hasn't developed many interests.

[lovemyfl]

Originally Posted by Quert

Disagree. People in the south seem to hold on to / hide their feelings until they get to know you very well, then you'll find out what kind of person they really are. People in Wisconsin seem to express their feelings right off the bat, and I miss that a lot. I'd rather know where I stand with somebody on an issue instead of having to ride out the "get-to-know-you" stage and find out later. I love the south and the short Winters, but it can be frustrating walking around on your tippy toes trying not to offend people.

I totally disagree. People in the south are laid back and there are no "social classes". A garbage collector can go around with an engineer! It's refreshing and not cliquey.

[sub]

Originally Posted by lovemyfl

I totally disagree. People in the south are laid back and there are no "social classes". A garbage collector can go around with an engineer! It's refreshing and not cliquey.

Everyone’s experiences are certainly interesting.
I’m from the south, and where I lived ‘social class’was everything it seemed. There was a big separation between blue-collar and white-collar types. Good-ol’ boy networks helped keep that way.
One of the many reasons I left the south and won’t move back.
Never noticed that nearly as bad in Wisconsin.
I will agree that southerners can be more open and blunt, but sometimes you have to read their bluntness correctly. Both regions tend towards politeness, but in Wisconsin it seems a bit more real, like polite is just what they do. In the south, politeness all-too-often comes across as being more contrived, almost like they’re trying to prove “southern hospitality” to be true.

[lovemyfl]

Originally Posted by sub

Everyone’s experiences are certainly interesting.
I’m from the south, and where I lived ‘social class’was everything it seemed. There was a big separation between blue-collar and white-collar types. Good-ol’ boy networks helped keep that way.
One of the many reasons I left the south and won’t move back.
Never noticed that nearly as bad in Wisconsin.
I will agree that southerners can be more open and blunt, but sometimes you have to read their bluntness correctly. Both regions tend towards politeness, but in Wisconsin it seems a bit more real, like polite is just what they do. In the south, politeness all-too-often comes across as being more contrived, almost like they’re trying to prove “southern hospitality” to be true.

Oh the South invented politeness. You meet someone and they tell you their life story. Noone is a stranger. It's like you have always been friends. I love that. As a woman, if I'm standing in line in a store, people talk to one another, clerks ask "how are ya doing?" I come home happy. In Wis., you stand in line and noone catches your eye they look straight ahead, you come home feeling empty! The south is more people orientatated for sure.

[sub]

Originally Posted by lovemyfl

Oh the South invented politeness. You meet someone and they tell you their life story. Noone is a stranger. It's like you have always been friends. I love that. As a woman, if I'm standing in line in a store, people talk to one another, clerks ask "how are ya doing?" I come home happy. In Wis., you stand in line and noone catches your eye they look straight ahead, you come home feeling empty! The south is more people orientatated for sure.

All I can say is, wow, my experiences have been the exact opposite.
Not saying I don't believe you, it could come down to where each of us has lived in the south and in Wisconsin.
Glad you like it down there.

[EllieKay56]

Originally Posted by lovemyfl

Oh the South invented politeness. You meet someone and they tell you their life story. Noone is a stranger. It's like you have always been friends. I love that. As a woman, if I'm standing in line in a store, people talk to one another, clerks ask "how are ya doing?" I come home happy. In Wis., you stand in line and noone catches your eye they look straight ahead, you come home feeling empty! The south is more people orientatated for sure.

Wow mine is total opposite. We moved here about 33 yrs ago from Chicago. When we 1st came I couldn't get use to everyone always talking to me. In line at the bank, in the grocery store, everywhere and anywhere. When I walk down the street people always smile and say 'hi'. I am use to it now and I also do it all the time.