22 year old looking for safe area to live while working at Miller Coors. (Milwaukee: for sale)

[sparty]

My son is going to be working at Miller Coors in Milwaukee. I would appreciate some advice about finding a safe neighborhood to rent an apartment. It would be great if he were in an area with young professionals and things to do. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.

[Milwaukee City]

Upper East Side and Lower East Side.

[sparty]

Can you suggest the name of some neighborhoods?

[Engineer_Guy]

Originally Posted by sparty

My son is going to be working at Miller Coors in Milwaukee. I would appreciate some advice about finding a safe neighborhood to rent an apartment. It would be great if he were in an area with young professionals and things to do. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.

East Town or perhaps the Third Ward.

[Supine]

Originally Posted by sparty

Can you suggest the name of some neighborhoods?

The Lower East Side is pretty much on to itself as a "neighborhood." By that I mean that people usually just speak of the "Lower East Side." The Upper East Side he may or may not like depending on his own threshold for theft and crime in the Riverwest area.

Here are some images of the typical aesthetics of the Upper and Lower East Sides. The Lower East Side probably has a lot more apartment buildings and condominiums though. There are more financially better off professionals to be found on the Lower East Side.

Riverwest Real Estate & Riverwest Homes For Sale — Trulia.com












Engineer Guy suggested some good locations in the city for a young professional to reside also.

I'm not sure if Bay View has a lot of professionals or not, but I just like that that side of town, and it's considered "the new East Side" now among some. To know what I mean by that you'd probably need to know what the East Side of Milwaukee was associated with during the 1980s (e.g., young, artsy, liberal, white folks dressed in black with milk white skin, accepting of all races). Except, no one is really walking around dressed in all black in the Bay View neighborhood.

It was not until I got into my late 30s that I discovered Bay View was a neighborhood in Milwaukee. My brother that moved over there was the same way. Being raised on the North Side of Milwaukee we both thought--just assumed--that Bay View was a working class suburb of Milwaukee. Not many black people from the North Side spend leisure time in the Bay View area. So much so that if I got into deadly beef with some black people on the North Side I could live in and restrict myself to Bay View and probably go 20 years or life without ever seeing those people again.

[Ralph Shinners]

Wauwatosa, aka Tosa, would also be an area I would suggest, particularly the east side of Tosa. An advantage of choosing this area is it is very close to Miller/Coors.

[sparty]

Thanks everyone. This forum is so helpful. I feel like i know the area much better now.

[Texas1987]

3rd Ward / Lower Eastside. I recommend Prospect Ave. Don't pigeonhole yourself living in the suburbs, you will find that in the winters especially it will get quite lonely.

[CowsAndBeer]

I spent a lot of time in Milwaukee before I moved here 5 years ago, and Bayview was the area that spoke to me. Less dense than some of the other neighborhoods mentioned here, but there are so many great shops/shows/bars/restaurants if you live within a mile or so of the KK/Lincoln intersection that it has many of the advantages of the near-downtown neighborhoods - except you get to have a yard. And the Lake is right there, but instead of it being privately owned, there are parks that run the whole of Bayview down through the southern suburbs.