Cincinnati vs Milwaukee (Cleveland, Green, Greenhills: houses, neighborhoods, shop)

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How do these two cities compare?

[Pathwalker]

With respect to.......??

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EVERYTHING!!!!!!!! I am looking for a 100% purely objective answer indicating which city is BETTER

[Pathwalker]

Sorry, the question can't be answered.

What makes one city "better" than another isn't something that is objective. It's SUBJECTIVE. It depends on what is important to you. Some people will tell you one city is better for some reason, but not everyone will concur. There are tons of people in Cincinnati who would go to their grave trying to say how Cincinnati is the greatest city in the country, while others will disagree with that. It's all a matter of personal taste.

P.S. Are you asking this same question in the Wisconsin forum?

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Originally Posted by WCRob

Sorry, the question can't be answered.

What makes one city "better" than another isn't something that is objective. It's SUBJECTIVE. It depends on what is important to you. Some people will tell you one city is better for some reason, but not everyone will concur. There are tons of people in Cincinnati who would go to their grave trying to say how Cincinnati is the greatest city in the country, while others will disagree with that. It's all a matter of personal taste.

P.S. Are you asking this same question in the Wisconsin forum?

LOL, i know it can't be answered. Yes its in the other forum. I'm just hoping someone who has been to both towns will stumble across one of my posts and offer some comparison of the two towns.

[Pathwalker]

Have you thought about maybe going to Urbanohio.com to ask your question? Wait, that may not be a good idea. If you go there, be prepared for a fight, because they tend to be the "go to your grave" types I was talking about.

Anyway, I truly wish I could help you. I've never been to Milwaukee, so I wouldn't be able to give a fair comparison. Are you just interested in discussing this, or are you trying to decide which city you'd like to move to?

[gentlearts]

I'm from Ohio, but spent a lot of time in Milwaukee last year. Milwaukee has a good pulse, the museum is awesome, and there is always something going on at the waterfront. To me, Cincinnati doesn't seem to have as much going on.

[JefferyT]

I dont think they are similar citys at all. I was in Milwaulkee for a few days for the German fest and made a point of exploring the city, too (including some of the outer neighborhoods and suburbs).

First, Milawaulkee has the lake.

Second, Milwaulkee architecutre in the old parts of town is very different: more frame houses and cottages, while Cincy is mostly brick, and probably built out denser.

Milwaulkee is fairly flat (even the hill parts are not that hilly) compared to Cincinnati.

There is not much of a campus neighborhood aroun UWM or Marquette, while there are some neat campus areas around UC.

Both citys had attempts at a downtown subway and both were abandonded.

Both citys had a big industrial tradition in terms of machine tools and machine shop work.

Both citys had German in-migration. Both citys celebrate this to some extent, in various ways.

Milwaulkee also had a big inmigration from eastern and southern Europe and, nowadays, from Mexico. Cincy never had a signifigant migration from these areas, not enough to form ethnic neighborhoods, like Milwaulkee did.
Cincinnati had, instead, a big in-migration from appalachia, which Milwaulkee didnt get.

Historically speaking Milwaulkee was much more left/progressive than Cincinnati, electing socialists to office, and was a stronghold of the union movement. This was never the case in Cincinnati, though the city proper has moved more to the left recently. Historically Cincinnati was (and still is) a conservative GOP valhalla, the antithesis of Milwaulkee's political culture.

Milwaulkee seems to make a big deal about celebrating diversity (the way their official tourist lit promotes those cultural and hertiage festivals, including the gay pride thing). Cincinnati does not do this.

Milwaulkees' downtown is spread-out, and not as dense and "downtowny" feeling as Cincinnatis, though at the river it does have a great look to it.

Both citys have "Greenbelt" suburbs...Greendale in Milwaulkee and Greenhills in Cincinnati.

[NewToCA]

I've considered Milwaukee to be more comparable to Cleveland instead of Cincinnati.

[JefferyT]

When I went there I was expecting a Cleveland, but Milwaulkee isnt as run-down as Cleveland. Also, unlike Cleveland, Milwaulkee has a great lakefront park and some very nice wealthy neighborhoods facing the lake.