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Old 10-24-2010, 03:38 PM
 
Location: I live in the Mid west area
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I hate Milwaukee!!!! It is dirty and the people are rude. The job market is awful. Shopping here on the other hand is great. Lots of places to eat and spend your money. Don't move here if you want a good school for your kids. The public school system is so bad that I have to resort to online schooling for my child for the 2010 - 2011 school year. I am thinking to relocate to the southwest part of the US. Alberquerque, NM... Can someone fill me in on how the school system is out in Albq, NM and what shape the is the job market at now. Thanks for reading and responding. God Bless.
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Old 10-24-2010, 03:41 PM
 
Location: Mequon, WI
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I hate Milwaukee!!!! It is dirty and the people are rude. The job market is awful. Shopping here on the other hand is great. Lots of places to eat and spend your money. Don't move here if you want a good school for your kids. The public school system is so bad that I have to resort to online schooling for my child for the 2010 - 2011 school year. I am thinking to relocate to the southwest part of the US. Alberquerque, NM... Can someone fill me in on how the school system is out in Albq, NM and what shape the is the job market at now. Thanks for reading and responding. God Bless.
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Old 10-24-2010, 04:46 PM
 
Location: Milwaukee
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I hate Milwaukee!!!! It is dirty and the people are rude. The job market is awful. Shopping here on the other hand is great. Lots of places to eat and spend your money. Don't move here if you want a good school for your kids. The public school system is so bad that I have to resort to online schooling for my child for the 2010 - 2011 school year. I am thinking to relocate to the southwest part of the US. Alberquerque, NM... Can someone fill me in on how the school system is out in Albq, NM and what shape the is the job market at now. Thanks for reading and responding. God Bless.
I've had it with this Milwaukee bad school stuff. Almost all urban school districts have serious problems. Milwaukee is no different than Chicago, St.Louis, Boston, Minneapolis and so on. This is a national problem not a local problem Private schools in Milwaukee are great and the overwhelming of suburban schools are decent. Also, Wisconsin has open enrollment, which makes it easy for your child to enroll in a suburban school. Schools in Wisconsin and the Milwaukee area are far better than the southwest. Our test scores point this point. Wisconsin and much of the upper midwest and the New England states always rank in the top ten in the nation. The south and southwest always rank at or near the bottom. Nobody is moving to the sunbelt for public schools.

As far as Milwaukee being rude and dirty. I don't see it this way, but this is subjective.
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Old 10-24-2010, 07:17 PM
 
Location: Iowa
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I don't get the rude and dirty part at all. School systems I'm not familiar with but as a city goes, Milwaukee isn't dirty compared to others I've seen.
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Old 11-05-2011, 06:36 PM
 
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Thats about it for Wisconsin, also the weather is really nice in the summer for 2 months or maybe 3 months but after that you gotta be able to handle the cold of the North and not like Illinois or Ohio but of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Dakotas.
Yea I have to disagree with that. Like someone else said, the weather is actually pretty nice into the beginning of November. Now its not summer weather but that is why it is called "4 Distinct Seasons".

I moved here from Florida for a change of scenery and had a great work opportunity right out of college. I live in Milwaukee and love it. Such a great city with lots to do. Definitely doesn't get enough credit and I love the fact that I have access to a world-class city like Chicago.

Florida is great if you want to retire...but that is about it.

KUDOS WISCONSIN!
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Old 11-06-2011, 12:34 PM
 
Location: Sector 001
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everything in life is relative. Wisconsin seems nice, until someone goes out to the Black hills or south Central Montana in the areas around yellowstone.... There are better and worse places to live.

The chinook winds give the hilly areas east of the rockies winter warmups that wisconsin can't compete with.. it will be -15 one day and up to 50 the next.

I'm sure there are tons of other great areas too, like the pacific northwest, though I like weather variety.. cloudy year around would be... irritating.
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Old 11-07-2011, 01:51 PM
 
Location: Boilermaker Territory
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everything in life is relative. Wisconsin seems nice, until someone goes out to the Black hills or south Central Montana in the areas around yellowstone.... There are better and worse places to live.

The chinook winds give the hilly areas east of the rockies winter warmups that wisconsin can't compete with.. it will be -15 one day and up to 50 the next.

I'm sure there are tons of other great areas too, like the pacific northwest, though I like weather variety.. cloudy year around would be... irritating.
I generally prefer consistent winter snowpack throughout the majority of the winter with sun and limited melting.
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Old 11-07-2011, 03:40 PM
 
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i love wisconsin and cant wait too come back. I liked Madison because theres alot too do there
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Old 11-07-2011, 10:15 PM
 
Location: Sector 001
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I generally prefer consistent winter snowpack throughout the majority of the winter with sun and limited melting.
it has it's pluses, speaking from someone living in an area that has exactly that. It's pretty to be able to see 20+ miles and it's nothing but a sea of white.. but it's cold! I'd like to live somewhere there they got tons of snow, all the time, that melts, then they got more.. like southern michigan, west side, where they get the lake effect snow bands.

Warm enough to jog (30's to 40's) and tons of snow too. Getting a couple feet at a time then having it warm the next day.. I'd never get tired of that ever.
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Old 11-08-2011, 05:12 AM
 
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I will take WI winters over AZ summers.
Oh Im with you all the way. But then Im more of a winter person anyway, doesnt matter where the summers are. For me, 80 degrees is a heat wave!
Im home here in WI.
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