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Nothing against SA,TX. But I need a little more than a 40ft river to live in a city. I need to be on a ocean. At least in Milwaukee we have the Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan.
This is a view of Lake Michigan from the shores of Milwaukee. Milwaukee in Summer is just beautiful but winter it's like Alaska!
From my time living in WI, I certainly recall the beauty of the shoreline of Lake Michigan while walking in the suburbs north of Milwaukee--simply fantastic! ( Now, I know that I live on the shores of the Atlantic, but I grew up on Lake Champlain, and I know the beauty of a scenic lake)...
Nothing against SA,TX. But I need a little more than a 40ft river to live in a city. I need to be on a ocean. At least in Milwaukee we have the Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan.
This is a view of Lake Michigan from the shores of Milwaukee. Milwaukee in Summer is just beautiful but winter it's like Alaska!
The San Antonio River is 223 miles long and reaches the Gulf of mexico. The Riverwalk will be 15 miles long reaching urban neighborhoods, new urban villages, Musuem district, the Zoo, Golf courses, Universities, urban parks, arts districts, San Antonio Missions National Park and 12 mile Hike and bike trail. It is the largest urban linear park in America.
Nothing against SA,TX. But I need a little more than a 40ft river to live in a city. I need to be on a ocean. At least in Milwaukee we have the Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan.
This is a view of Lake Michigan from the shores of Milwaukee. Milwaukee in Summer is just beautiful but winter it's like Alaska!
Moving isn't easy. Maybe they have a job that keeps them in place. The cost of paying a lot for housing, etc. might still not match the perceived opportunity cost of uprooting and moving. Plus maybe those people like living in those places, but are still hurting from the costs. It's like if I went on a diet, I might really enjoy what I looked and felt like, and know I was making a good decision for myself overall, but still complain about the lack of fatty meats or chocolate or whatever.
That dog don't hunt. I have lived in 11 cities in 8 different states, and in 5 different countries. Moving is very easy.
My entire point, is that if someone doesn't like their circumstances, then they need to do something to change it. It's like a guy I work with, who often complains about us retired military guys who are getting retirement checks, and we are 10 to 15 years younger than he is. I tell him, that if he had stayed long enough to retire, rather than getting out after one hitch, then he would be doing the same as the rest of us.
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I REALLY don't like the cold which is why after I get done with college I'm moving to Dallas where cold and snow are a relative minimum (or at least a hell of a lot less likely to happen than where I currently live). But I know people who aren't bothered by it at all and love to be in it. Personally I think the feeling of fresh sunlight and humidity is the best thing ever, but that's just me.
I lived in Milwaukee for 17 years and loved it----great place with great people.
You exagerrate the cold temps in winter----you say its always five degrees and windy.
You get used to the cold----when the temps often get up to low or mid thirties in the winter, if it is sunny you get out in a heavy sweater and enjoy it.
Milwaukee is not a tropical paradise in winter as Chicago, Minneapolis, Indianopolis, and Cleveland arent either.
The people are tough and adjust to the conditions. Plan your vacations for the winter and remove yourself to a warmer climate for a week or two. The lakefront along Lake Michigan just off of downtown Milwaukee is really beautiful after a snowfall-----Milwaukee certainly makes their lakefront area accessible-----not like here in South Florida where the gouge you to use the Ocean area.
I can't believe for the life of me why people would want to live in the north. IE Twin Cities, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland and so on. NY and CHI are such nice cities that winter doesn't matter or that you have so much going on in NYC, and Chicago that you just put up with the weather. I love Milwaukee more than any other city I have been to. Winter is terrible I can't believe people actually like shoveling a foot of snow every two weeks and the cold and dark days, you might as well live in Alaska. Why not live somewhere where people go on vacation, family you ask what are you going to cry every minute you can't see your aunts and uncles and parents. I hate winter and I know I'm just whining but when people tell me they like winter I also think they would like sleeping on a bed of nails too. I can't comprehend that when people tell me they like snow and cold and dark days and change of seasons. For me it's like trying to understand a Korean math problem. Nobody in there right mind I believe enjoys bad weather, these must be the people who love to be miserable. I'm moving to SD or Miami when the wife graduates grad school. Winter is the devils summer. I just don't believe you when you say I enjoy winter! yeah and I enjoy a hammer hitting my toes!!!
I most certainly would ever live in any city north of Charlotte.
That dog don't hunt. I have lived in 11 cities in 8 different states, and in 5 different countries. Moving is very easy.
My entire point, is that if someone doesn't like their circumstances, then they need to do something to change it, or S.T.F.U.. It's like a guy I work with, who often complains about us retired military guys who are getting retirement checks, and we are 10 to 15 years younger than he is. I tell him, that if he had stayed long enough to retire, rather than getting out after one hitch, then he would be doing the same as the rest of us.
Not everyone has their moves paid for in full and/or completely taken care of by the US gov't. We aren't all socialists in this country, you know.
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