Pros and Cons of Living in Wisconsin
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- Why should you live in or visit Wisconsin? This week Blake gives pros for living in Wisconsin and Cons for living in Wisconsin. FTAMT # 065
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What are your thoughts on Wisconsin?
No place I'd rather be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No place like home
And Wisconsin is my home
Colby cheese was invented in Colby Wisconsin. The cheese was named after the town, not the other way around.
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I am expecting to move to Wisconsin this year, from the UK, once travel restrictions are lifted. I like cheese and beer. 👍
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Don't move to Madison , it's a shit hole and I don't recommend it at all , move to the more rural areas but stay as far away from Madison as humanly possible , please take my advice , I used to live there and I know how shitty it is
Your coming to the right place
@@jodiegrasse9486 I surely hope so. 👍
As a lifelong resident of Wisconsin, I have to correct a couple things, because people from other states automatically don't want to come here because of these biases. It typically only snows from November 15 to April 1 on average. But, our "awesome summmer" (it is, best summer in the U.S.) is from Memorial day to September 15. Also the newer waterpark resorts are mostly indoors, so you can play year round. Kalahari, The Wilderness, The Great Wolf Lodge and at least one more who I can picture, but forgot the name are predominantly indoors. Mt. Olympus is 50/50, so it's still open in the winter. Noah's Ark and Family Land are exclusively outdoors so I think they're only open like May 15 to September 30.
As a life long resident of Wisconsin, we would have hoped you would have caught on to the satirical nature of the video ;)
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Really pumps me up to move and take some months in Wisconsin and see if I can get used to the winter!
The only question I have about Wisconsin, is, if I'm in Milwaukee downtown, what the chances for an electric car be stolen, while in charging, or parking?
@@rafas3893 I guess it depends on what part of "downtown" MKE you're in...? I wouldn't be too nervous, but I also wouldn't park that bad boi on the street - MKE is a city, cars are stolen in every city...
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@@rafas3893 stay in kalifornia
@@rafas3893 I have not observed that many public places to charge an electric car, so you would probably have to do that at home. As far as someone stealing parked cars, now a key with a computer chip is needed to start most cars, so cars would have to be stolen by car jacking, not stolen unattended from a parking spot.
You glossed over the natural beauty of Wisconsin. Wis has lots of rivers and lakes to have fun on in the summer. There are tons of ethnic and music festivals in the sumner. In Oshkosh, EEA. Miles and miles of beautiful woods and forests in northern Wisconsin. Excellent state parks that you can camp at. Last but not least, our wonderful and cute Wisconsin accent!
You're definitely right - but we had to for time. Wisconsin's beauty alone makes it a state worth being in. Thanks for the insight - check out more videos and consider subscribing if you haven't already!
I liken Wisconsin to a kind of: "Europe in America". The state had TONS of immigrants from Norway, Sweden, Ireland and Germany. Their European culture is STILL part of the state. Drive through any small town. The streets are clean. The houses are all painted. The lawns are ALWAYS well kept. People take pride in what they have...and show it! Drive down the most remote road in Wisconsin, a road NO ONE ever takes, and you'll come across homes that look like they're prepared for a photo shoot for Better Homes and Gardens. Amazing!
On point! !!!!! You betcha!!!!
But...In saying "Wisconsin doesn't have any big attractions".....what state DOES? Go to Arizona...and look at the Grand Canyon? Hey..after 5 minutes you say: "Let's go HOME!". Alright, Florida...Disney World! OK. But you can spend several days at the Dells, too, and have just as much fun, at MUCH less cost! And I've been to Cape Cod. They say: "Door County is the Cape Cod of the Middle West". I say: "Cape Code is the Door County of the East Coast". (And I'm FROM Chicago! But I've been living in Wisconsin (Undercover, of course) for MOST of the last 50 years.)
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I've lived in NYC my whole life and plan to move to Wisconsin after I graduate law school. I want to get away from the cosmopolitan hustle and bustle of NYC and live a nice cozy quiet life in small town Wisconsin. I take farm fields for Times square any day!
Oh, you’ll love it here.
this was fun, I company agree with everything and love that you included a little bit of FIB ripping.
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In the fifth grade it has gotten so cold that kids had so missed too many days of school and had had to add extra five minutes onto the school day to make up for all the days we’ve missed
*gruff grandpa voice* Back in my day school wasn't canceled 'cause it was cold.
Excellent video!
The con about no big attraction is actually a pro to me because less crowds and tourists
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I love my Cabin on a small lake in Northwest Wisconsin. It’s an Awesome and Rewarding Treasure in my Life. I will never give it up.
You're living the dream
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Thanks! I'm moving to Oshkosh. I love beer and hiking so it might be my thing.
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That was great! Thanks for the breakdown. We're thinking of moving to WI but im Terrified of the cold!!! We're currently in Sunny CA.
Man you made me laugh so hard! Awesome and interesting recap. ;)
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I’m from Necedah, a transplant from Detroit. Been here over 30 years. Love the Dells! And castle rock lake.
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Pro: cheese is a blood type so you get extra universal donor/receiver combos!
I was unaware of any cons! But yes to close to illinoise!
98% of landscape seems well manicured. 2.49/gal. For gas as opposed to 4.95 like im used to paying, was refreshing
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Wait now what? My fuel cost is like $1500 a month. I'll mive right now thise are the fuel prices.
There are indoor water parks to play in winter. You can ice fish
Facts about the last one 😂💯
Basically a life long resident of northern Wisconsin. Chequamegon Bay area up on lake superior. Absolutely love it
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If your a snowmobiler you love the winter !
Fair point. We are not.
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Or an ice fisherman!
Hows the air quality? I'm in east Tennessee and pollen, pollution, and humidity are absolutely miserable.
Pollen is bad in early spring and dry summers. And it’s normally humid in the summer. But not nearly as bad as TN
Ok, I’ll watch the packers this winter, I was a Seahawks fan and had so much fun, I will watch the packers and learn the team and the players.
I live in Chicago and you're right, people here suck. They just do. So, we decided that we are going to move to Wisconsin in September to get away from the stink. My family has a cabin up in Wisconsin, I love it up there. That said, I'll be sure to brush up on my driving etiquette and leave whatever stink I have accumulated over the years in Chicago, where it belongs. Loved the video!
While this video is satire, we’re very glad your abandoning the dark side.
The packers are playing a playoff game tomorrow and I got invited to meet the family of my new gf and she has family from WI, is it true I can make a good impression with Brauts and beer?
That is so awesome. If you get the right beer and brats, then yes.
Remember, wisconsin loves beer so much, it name a city after a beer brand. Slinger used to be schlesingerville, but was renamed slinger after the stork beer slinger
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@@FTAMT it is true. Go to the slinger museum. There's a whole exhibit on it
The Storcks fought off competition by promoting Slinger Beer, the name the village would change its name to in 1921.
Is whitewater a cool place? I plan to go there for university
Whitewater is pretty nice! Very Wisconsin! Great college town
My son went to Univ WI Whitewater and stayed for two years after he graduated. Lot’s of great people, close to Madison, and a great education.
My son also attended UW-Whitewater. Had a job lined up when he graduated. A very good job !
It doesn’t sound much different from Montana, snow from Oct till April and the threat sometimes there is snow in June. The temperature doesn’t drop that low, but it’s cold, sometimes, cold is cold. I w I’ll stay home.
I’m considering moving there, I’m more worried about mosquitoes
Great mountain biking trail network in Lacrosse
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There are mountains in LaCrosse?
Fun fact: Wisconsin Is the only state to be born out of spite. The Wisconsin territory was including about half of northern Minnesota, a bit of northern Illinois, and lastly, the peninsula that Michigan has now.
Illinois firstly takes some land, Wisconsin territory is not that affected. Then there was a “war” between Michigan and Ohio. There was a city on the borderline that they battle over. The battle ended with Ohio winning, leading to “compensation” in the addition of what would be 20% of Wisconsin’s modern territory. This pissed a lot of people off but not to enough extent. Then Minnesota took the land to the north. Wisconsin is pissed at this point and upon hearing that Michigan wanted to expand all along the coastline to Lake Michigan, cutting off all Wisconsin access to the lake, they decided to sign into being an official state to protect our land. We’re fine with everyone now but our relationship with Michigan is odd. It’s like flipping someone off and fist bumping immediately after.
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I plan a 3 months visit to Wisconsin with my family, when should we come? We're from Norway.
It depends what you want to see! If you want to experience Wisconsin winter, January-March is a good time. If summer, May-July. If a little bit of it all, Aug.-October!
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@@FTAMT Thanks! Then I go for August-October, and we start with the water worlds of Wisconsin Dells before it gets colder. I hope to travel authentic anno 1871 in the wake of my great-great-great-grandfather Ovren Mikkelosn, who went to Cambridge at the age of 73 together with four of his kids and grandchildren. They went first to Hull in England, train to Liverpool and the America Boat from Liverpool. Hope there's still going a passenger boat between Liverpool and the USA? Or maybe we can go with a cruise boat as a second option? We'll go in authentic clothes, and I hope to visit the shipyard where the steamer S/S Hero was built in 1866 in Hull. This steamer is so nice, and it went in regular traffic from Oslo to Hull every Friday since 1867.
Have you been to Cambridge? What to see there?
Ps! I hope to make a deal for home schooling with my local school when we're there. Then we can support them on emigration history and new knowledge about Wisconsin, for their social Studies and history lessons:-)
Other members of the FTAMT team have been across the pond, but not to England or Norway. Blake has never been out of the USA!!
It was law here in wisconsin until the 90's that restaurants had to offer cheese products with their meals.
*jokingly* Can we get a fact checker on this?!
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I haven't heard if that law, but the Butter Law is still in effect. If restaurants offer butter at the table, it can't be margarine or any other crap. It has to be butter. 😊
I want to move here! Whats the best affordable safe city for kiddos
I wanna move there too
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The cheese is named after Colby WI, not the other way around.
@Lone Wolves LOL. Nope. Grew up in Cassville, but my dad drove a milk truck for a dairy in Fennimore. I ended up learning a lot about cheese.🧀
You can travel to Chicago or the twin cities to mall of America and you're close to the great lakes, and there's lots of stuff to do year round there is variety and it's one of the few places that is a climate safe haven, besides cold and heavy snowfall it doesn't have bad natural disasters, isn't in tornado alley (I live in NE and we rarely get tornadoes, that's more common in KS or MO and OK) it doesn't have poisonous snakes or bugs, earthquakes, mudslides, tsunamis, hurricanes, droughts, sandstorm, sink holes, isn't prone to flooding and doesn't have to worry about volcanic eruptions. It gets enough rain and snow for all the "boring farmland" has trees and beautiful scenery, is safe crime wise especially in small towns and its relatively affordable. Very much considering moving to Wisconsin, I'm originally from upstate NY, so I'm used to harsh winters and now live in NE with my husband.
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Careful big shoots, we don’t have mountains just large hills
If mountain is in the name, we will call it a mountain. Also, this is a (mostly) satirical video.
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Should I move to Mayville Wisconsin in dodge county
Uh… maybe?
Not even honorable mention for Madison? 😭. Living in this city is the only reason I still live in the State.
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The pro's here out weigh the cons which is why I choose to still stay and live here, to many to list. So I'll go with my cons of living here lol- Cold Brutal long winters, 3rd world like pot-hole ridden roads, Terrible drivers, drunks lol, people can be Very fake, clicky and if your new here it's tough to make new friends and lastly hahah (mind you, Im a Huge die-hard Wisc sports fan) besides the Packers the rest of our teams havn't won anything in the last idk how many years and havn't seen championship success. Other than that, were blessed in many ways.
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I live in Wis all my life. Easy to make friends........unless you're from
chicago!
Bucks-in-6
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I agree with half of this video.
The wrong half though
I believe that Colby Cheese is named after the town where it was invented, Colby, not the other way around!
Could be
And Wisconsin now home of 2021 nba champs!!!
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The Dells, The Northwoods - Camping, The Packers -
I live in Wisconsin and I was born in February I have snow much fun on my birthday
We’re happy for you!
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we have the Bucks and Brewers.
Colby was not named after cheese. The cheese was named after the town. (Or rather the township it grew out of.)
If you say so.
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The title of this episode should have been “Wispros and Wiscons”
miller lite forever
As long as it ain’t AB
You mean New Glarus
I live in a small town in wisconsin there is 1 grocery store and 5 bars lol
CLASSIC
I live in a city that has 2.5k+ grocery stores and 1k bars
Here after giannis made your city famous
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Also, Milwaukee was plenty famous. But glad you're here!
@@FTAMT I did bro but seriously i didn’t mean to be sarcastic. It’s not like Milwaukee wasn’t famous I was just saying because I live on the other edge of the world so …
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Lol. The Dakotas at least have the badlands.
Dakotas badlands? THAT's an "attraction"? Even Mount Rushmore. After 10 minutes..."Let's go find the washroom and go back to the motel."
@@badguy1481 The badlands are actually pretty great for hiking. And South Dakota has some other neat low-mountain hiking!
@@ahhitskatie9094 Hiking? How many Americans like to Hike? And you can Hike in every state in the Union and see beautiful scenery.
I've been thinking about moving to Chicago. But now I'm thinking about Wisconsin for the cheese. 🧀
Make the wise choice
I'm done with snow. I don't like cheese or beer. I'm considering Wisconsin anyway.....
God's country.
Just moved to Wausau from Ny , not going back , they can have that mess
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We have true four seasons.
Lots of farms and lots of cattle. Haha I’m part of that
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Beers 🍻 Cheese 🧀 Lambue Field Farms etc etc
No big attraction, not a problem, no tourists
Lol coors isn’t from Wisconsin... not even close.
There is a Coors brewery in WI. It’s also Miller-Coors now. It’s also satire. Lol.
Miller bought out Coors 10+ years ago, FYI.
One time I was in Illinois and somebody who lived in Illinois asked me if everybody in Wisconsin had cows!!!!
Wait, we don't all have cows?!
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Being from the western part of Wisconsin, it's fun to watch the Vikings fans get upset when Green Bay has successful seasons and four superbowl trophies while they can't win one. In my part of the state, the rivalry is between the Packers and the Vikings, not the Packers and the Bears.
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Wrong. There is no bigger rivalry in all of professional sports than Packers/Bears. I don't live in the northwestern part of the state (thank God) so there may be some sort of rivalry up there between Packer and Viking fans that I have no first hand knowledge of. However, down here in the civilized part of the state, not so much. That's just another team they're forced to play twice a year... like the Lions.
@@rejjy19 my brother in law is from south east Wisconsin and it's the Bears and Packers while in Western Wisconsin it's with the Vikings.
We were glad Minnesota didn't get to play in their stadium when they host the Superbowl that year. We would never hear the end of it.
You look like you went to Concordia
Mr. Concordia 2016. Is that alright with you?
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Pro all the cheese you can eat. Khan can't poop for a month lol.
…why is that last part a pro…?
@@FTAMT I did not notice the microphone spelled con wrong before I sent it.
@@Surroundedbyevil368 🤣
It's not "mostly winter" in Wisconsin. It lasts around 4-5 months- middle November thru late March. I've lived here my whole life. I hate cold and snow, that's a huge negative. Wisconsin is not "God's country", it's just another state with a lot of odd and often obese people with weird/grating accents. The average high temperatures in Wisconsin in the summer are not between "70 and 80" degrees. It's in the low 80's. I don't mind Illinois, Chicago is an awesome city. I'm glad I'm within 90 miles of Chi-town... that's a plus to living in Wisconsin.
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@@FTAMT Sorry to be a debbie downer. This is the first time I've ever seen one of your videos. I just hate stereotypes of Wisconsin. For example, I don't eat bratwursts and drink beer for breakfast. I haven't had a brat in over a decade and I'm not much of a drinker. Life is too short to waste it away with excessive drinking. I will subscribe and try to be more positive in any future comments.
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Oh boy!
I'll pretend I didn't read that! Could we just give the southeast portion of the state to illnoise!...... I mean would anybody really care!? Lol
Motorcycling, hmm?
It’s no good living where the tourist want to go, really gets crowded
illannoys drivers may be bad, but holly sh!t oinksconsin drivers are waaayyyy worse. From living about equal amount of many years in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison, Wisconsin drivers make me wanna move back, and Wisconsin 'cities' just as well since the walkability (chance of avoiding bad drivers) is minimal. And what's up with the multiple DUI/DWIs in the news all the time? If it was just 2-3 per person, but it's way more. Sconsin'd be ok, if it weren't for its people. (But that goes for most places)
You must be from Minnesota…?
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The pros of living in Wisconsin is I'm not living there 😅 The cons of living in Texas I'm living there . Sorry 😂
😂
😂the worst thing about Wisconsin is bcz close to IL
Amen
I'm from Kentucky, but I lived in Green Bay for awhile and loved it. Sadly, I hear it's turning into Milwaukee with it's higher crime rate.
We have a crew member in GB. He hasn't mentioned that, but maybe!
Illinois???? Duuuuude, greetings from Vegas… We have California on our southern border…. LA is only four hrs away! Tell me about trashy people, worse drivers and crime!!!
None of us have been to Vegas - but maybe they'd say the same about y'all? ;)
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The fall colors bring people from all over the country
Whoa ,whoa, wait a minute here, alcoholism..... you mean professionalism!!!!!!
No wonder the women are cold
If it wasn't for Illinois Wisconsin wouldn't survive
You’re wrong, but say more wrong things
So much BS I didn’t make it to the end. You don’t have to exaggerate in order to make it interesting. It isn’t all winter, snow, cheese, and drunks. It’s never been 50 below. People can look up the records for themselves. You do seem to have something of a schizophrenic attitude with all of the afore-mentioned negatives then too it is God’s Country. This might amuse some people who live here but anyone considering a move or an extended visit will be totally confused.
It’s called satire brother. This channel is all about making people laugh. If you want something serious, try the news.
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@@FTAMT OK then. It was totally hilarious now that you have explained its satirical nature. Best of luck.
@@FTAMT Please ignore karen she has her monthly visitor! Lol
@jamesnesser You missed the polar vortex a few years ago then?