Beware
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12/30/2011
First, I've lived there 20 years. College town, government workers and working poor dominate the population. Good schools - I raised my son here. Good restaurants, limited but interesting neighborhoods. Fun place to visit for a day, or two. But outside of a precious few weeks each spring and fall, the weather is godawful! Oppressive heat and humid, mosquitoes, stench from the lakes, just awful. Winter is deadly, and seems to last forever and ever without break. Housing is wa-ay expensive, and surviving requires at least 85G, or you will be scraping buy and priced out of most entertainment. And it is getting worse by the year. Madison residents are better than you, get over it. Keep your politics to yourself - either way, left or right, you will ruin yourself. Taxes outrageous, even considering the good schools. Streets are lousy, and it is extraordinarily difficult to travel more than a mile or two from Dec through March. Unless you are getting huge bucks, consider elsewhere. An awful lot of PhDs, engineers and professionals serving coffee at all the coffee shops.
jim | McFarland, WI