Reputation of University of Wisconsin Campuses

[sconnielove]

Still closer than what most people consider "metro Milwaukee" (West Bend, Hartford, Oconomowoc or Port Washington). What a joke.

[Milwaukee City]

Originally Posted by sconnielove

Still closer than what most people consider "metro Milwaukee" (West Bend, Hartford, Oconomowoc or Port Washington). What a joke.

Even though Port is considered a part of the Milwaukee area, I wouldn't go as far as to say it's a suburb much like Kankakee. However Oconomowoc is truly a suburb since it's all connected by other cities to Milwaukee, Hartford is a stretch as well to call a suburb but definitely in the Milwaukee area and the same goes for West Bend.

I don't see what the joke is about that.

[sconnielove]

Originally Posted by Milwaukee City

Even though Port is considered a part of the Milwaukee area, I wouldn't go as far as to say it's a suburb much like Kankakee. However Oconomowoc is truly a suburb since it's all connected by other cities to Milwaukee, Hartford is a stretch as well to call a suburb but definitely in the Milwaukee area and the same goes for West Bend.

I don't see what the joke is about that.

You don't consider River Falls a part of Minneapolis/St. Paul, being 24 miles away, yet Oconomowoc, 27 miles and Hartford, 28 miles from Milwaukee (a much smaller metro area) are. That makes sense.

[sconnielove]

But I guess that invisible line that separates Wisconsin from Minnesota does add about 100 miles...so I apologize.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by sconnielove

You don't consider River Falls a part of Minneapolis/St. Paul, being 24 miles away, yet Oconomowoc, 27 miles and Hartford, 28 miles from Milwaukee (a much smaller metro area) are. That makes sense.

It does when you consider that there is contiguous development/suburbia from Milwaukee all the way to Oconomowoc while River Falls is in the middle of the sticks. There's more to the picture than just distance.

[Milwaukee City]

Originally Posted by Drover

It does when you consider that there is contiguous development/suburbia from Milwaukee all the way to Oconomowoc while River Falls is in the middle of the sticks. There's more to the picture than just distance.

Right on! plus I wasn't the one who said river falls wasn't a part of the twinkies metro area. Even though the stats people include it in with the twin cities metro area, if it were up to me it wouldn't be. It's close but it's still all farmland all around RF. Likewise when I said West Bend is in the Milwaukee area but not a suburb but (according to the stats people again that say any city within a metro area is a suburb) an ex-hurb. There is too much of nothing in between West Bend and say Richfield/Germantown area.

[Wellstone]

no kidding. there's miles of open land even between woodbury and the border. i guess we can call stevens point part of wausau "metro", portage and mount horeb part of madison metro, and shawano part of green bay.

never mind the miles of open land between them, if you can drive 90 miles an hour and reach the city in 20 minutes, it counts.

I live in the twin cities and I have never heard one person make that claim. Maybe I'll ask some people tomorrow and see what kind of laughter I get.

I'd think if it were part of the metro, that our transit system would want to link it.

BTW according to google maps they are 28.5 miles apart, 36 minutes. that sounds like a lot more than 20. It shows 20 minutes just to get to the MN border on 94 - I guess that constitutes downtown St. Paul.

[TAB1452]

sconnielove...just an FYI...when I visited River Falls to go to the school for Horiculture in 05 they gave us a ton of stats about how its a huge agricultural school and business was one of the smallest things talked about...I actually wanted an AG Business degree and after hearing about their lack of a business reputation from STUDENTS and PROFESSORS I decided to go to a more presitgious business school in WW instead...I don't know why you got so worked up over my opinion...I'm sure I'm just "a bigger idiot then you thought" already anyways...

[sconnielove]

Originally Posted by Wellstone

no kidding. there's miles of open land even between woodbury and the border. i guess we can call stevens point part of wausau "metro", portage and mount horeb part of madison metro, and shawano part of green bay.

never mind the miles of open land between them, if you can drive 90 miles an hour and reach the city in 20 minutes, it counts.

I live in the twin cities and I have never heard one person make that claim. Maybe I'll ask some people tomorrow and see what kind of laughter I get.

I'd think if it were part of the metro, that our transit system would want to link it.

BTW according to google maps they are 28.5 miles apart, 36 minutes. that sounds like a lot more than 20. It shows 20 minutes just to get to the MN border on 94 - I guess that constitutes downtown St. Paul.

Wausau and Green Bay are not "metro areas." Wausau's core population of under 40,000 in the middle of nowhere doesn't constitute a metro area, and Green Bay is the smallest market in pro sports by far. And yes, there is open land between Woodbury and River Falls, only because Afton and Lakeland, MN don't want to become another Woodbury that sprouted up as a city out of nowhere. The "continual development" skipped those two towns and moved to the already developed Hudson/River Falls areas. FYI, there are also Metro transit buses, park and rides, etc. that go from River Falls to Minneapolis. Google maps is a joke...if it takes you 36 minutes to get to downtown St. Paul or 20 minutes to the border you're either going 35 miles an hour on the freeway or are in a covered wagon, circa 1875. The point is, it's closer to a big city than any of the other campuses in Wisconsin.

[sconnielove]

Originally Posted by TAB1452

sconnielove...just an FYI...when I visited River Falls to go to the school for Horiculture in 05 they gave us a ton of stats about how its a huge agricultural school and business was one of the smallest things talked about...I actually wanted an AG Business degree and after hearing about their lack of a business reputation from STUDENTS and PROFESSORS I decided to go to a more presitgious business school in WW instead...I don't know why you got so worked up over my opinion...I'm sure I'm just "a bigger idiot then you thought" already anyways...

and TAB1452...please don't refer to Whitewater as "prestigious." Their business school may have been around a little longer than River Falls', but it's FAR from prestigious...even in Wisconsin. I wish you good luck with your AG Business degree in today's world.