Former Wisconsinites...where did you move to and how do you like it in comparison to WI? (Milwaukee: cost, vs)

[barajaj]

I can't wait to move out of Milwaukee... Have lived in the ghetto most of my life, Northside and South. Just moved to the north side this winter.
These people have no respect for their communities or themselves. I have yet to experience a summer in the vast Northside ghetto but am already disgusted. As soon as it warmed, they came out. Why do they always sit on their front lawns or hangout on the sidewalk and why do they let their kids run around the street. Everything is run down and falling apart, every store has security to the max, hell even MCdonalds has a box like at a bank where you put your money and they then put the food in the box. Seriously not even the mexican ghetto was that bad. Some kid was shot and died a block away from my house a couple of months ago, this is going to be a long summer.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by barajaj

I can't wait to move out of Milwaukee... Have lived in the ghetto most of my life, Northside and South. Just moved to the north side this winter.
These people have no respect for their communities or themselves. I have yet to experience a summer in the vast Northside ghetto but am already disgusted. As soon as it warmed, they came out. Why do they always sit on their front lawns or hangout on the sidewalk and why do they let their kids run around the street. Everything is run down and falling apart, every store has security to the max, hell even MCdonalds has a box like at a bank where you put your money and they then put the food in the box. Seriously not even the mexican ghetto was that bad. Some kid was shot and died a block away from my house a couple of months ago, this is going to be a long summer.

My father is from the northside, born and raised. He said Milwaukee could be rough. According to him, he said that in his time, if you were Black and you crossed the viaduct into some south side neighborhoods, you would get jumped, possibly killed. He also has told me that his old neighborhood is basically violent and he wouldn't dream of raising his kids there. All of I know of his current neighborhood is what he is telling me, which is basically that it's a violent neighborhood.

[ccjarider]

Originally Posted by barajaj

I can't wait to move out of Milwaukee... Have lived in the ghetto most of my life, Northside and South. Just moved to the north side this winter.
These people have no respect for their communities or themselves. I have yet to experience a summer in the vast Northside ghetto but am already disgusted. As soon as it warmed, they came out. Why do they always sit on their front lawns or hangout on the sidewalk and why do they let their kids run around the street. Everything is run down and falling apart, every store has security to the max, hell even MCdonalds has a box like at a bank where you put your money and they then put the food in the box. Seriously not even the mexican ghetto was that bad. Some kid was shot and died a block away from my house a couple of months ago, this is going to be a long summer.

wtf does this have to do with topic?

[barajaj]

Originally Posted by ccjarider

wtf does this have to do with topic?

lol just venting

[Rob702]

Originally Posted by barajaj

I can't wait to move out of Milwaukee... Have lived in the ghetto most of my life, Northside and South. Just moved to the north side this winter.

Ever considered moving to one of the nicer neighborhoods in Milwaukee? There are tons of them.

[DASULAR17]

Originally from Oshkosh schooled in Green Bay lived in Appleton and finally Wauwatosa. We move to the West Coast of Florida (Clearwater area) and love it here.

[green_mariner]

^One thing I've noticed is that there are quite a few people from the Midwest who move to the Tampa-St.Petersburg area. I have a friend from Chicago who moved to St. Petersburg as a child. It seems like while Miami attracts alot of people from the Northeast, the Tampa area attracts people from Midwestern states like Wisconsin. Former MLB pitcher Brad Radke was born in Eau Claire,WI and went to high school in Tampa.

[mrs.cool]

^^ Very true. And all the way down the west coast of Florida, Sarasota all the way to Ft. Meyers. I swear every time we're down there and strike up a conversation with someone, they're from Michigan! We were at a hotel once in Port Charlotte, and saw a Wisconsin license plate in the parking lot, and chatted up the guy. Sure enough, they were from Jefferson, and spend every winter at that little resort on Charlotte Harbor!

[amerifree]

Born and raised in Beloit. Lived in Colorado , Montana, Wyoming , Idaho, Arizona, Omaha, and Florida.
Now live in Wisconsin for work and family.

Biggest difference...it seems like Wisconsin residents have less money and far crappier cars than any state I've lived in. I can only assume it's because taxes and the high cost of living here make it almost impossible to break away from the middle class.

Also, it seems to me there are a lot of hicks and skanks in disproportionate numbers. Camouflage clothing is considered formal wear. Crocs are dress shoes. People don't take pride in their appearance.

Road construction is out of control in the summer.

[Drover]