what are your opinions of Menomoniee Falls? (Milwaukee, Appleton: homes, neighborhoods)

[Angorlee]

From what I saw the downtown was dead. There are no indoor shopping malls but many strip malls.

[Ron Burgundy]

It's dead because it's been extremely cold the last few months. I don't know much about Menomonee Falls, except for it's fairly large land-mass wise. It stretches from Hampton to the county line south-to-north, and I'm not exactly sure how wide it is west-to-east, but it's pretty siginificant. Very spread out.

All of Appleton Ave and Cty Q is retail. If you want to live in a mall, take hideout in a Boston Store somewhere. I'd be more concerned with the residential areas myself. They're tucked back in there off the main drags and are certainly fine neighborhoods. I'd prefer Menomonee Falls' location on US45 over a somewhere similarly out in lake country on I-94W with regards to travel into downtown Milwaukee.

[43north87west]

Originally Posted by Angorlee

From what I saw the downtown was dead. There are no indoor shopping malls but many strip malls.

It's hard-core suburbia, that's all. It's not going to be really busy at any time. I've never seen downtown MF busy, now that you mention it. There are people around, but most of the traffic will be via car.

Also, indoor shopping malls are on the downhill slide. It's probably good that MF doesn't have one. They're being abandoned in favor of the village shopping model, with mixed residential and retail, like Bay Shore. So many shopping malls that were once nice, have become vacant and surrounded by declining neighborhoods. Only the really expensive malls have held on. The rest seem to attract people with little to do and even less money to spend, which makes everything worse. Remember Northridge Mall? Examples of Northridge in various stages of decline, abound in many cities throughout the United States.

[mmmila]

menomonee falls-a lot of blue-collar, country people and not racially diverse. The term redneck comes to mind-no offense at all, I have family members that live there. It's also getting more of teh northwest milwaukee people shopping/eating, and it's not always pretty! (had family member in retail and the clientel worsened and theft increased) many nice neighborhoods and nice homes, but not really what I'd call suburban living..

[Ron Burgundy]

Really? Living in a suburb some how does not qualify as "what you'd call suburban living"?

[Milwaukee City]

easy ron, just a troll.