Green Bay, Could You Live There?

No. Love to visit GB but that's it. The only spot I'd live in Sconi' is Madtown.

Once you get away from the muggy/buggy summers and long, dark winters, it's hard to go back.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrm-rPSCIBw

Sheesh! Nice link loser.

might as well keep driving north and live in oneida or vilas.

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Originally posted by Tavis Smiley:
Just curious for those who don't, do, and have. I don't but I'm 90 minutes away by horse and buggy. Just curious what others experiences have been and what your opinions are. At times it seems like a magical place (Packers reason why obviously for me) that I could pull off (pending wife approval). At other times I say no way, that it would be too small. Thoughts?

. Who really wants to live in he concrete jungle watching people move around like robots.

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Originally posted by beef:
might as well keep driving north and live in oneida or vilas.

. Exactly

It's likely there are nicer places overall to live rather than Green Bay proper, but consider the important things before you wade through all these opinions.
Property values/taxes, quality of life, available jobs (if applicable) doctor/hospital considerations; all the obvious stuff.
It sure is a nice thought, though, eh?

I think quality of life out ways most of what you stated above. You can always make money. But my opinion on rural dwellings does not meen that quality of life is superior to populated cities and surrounding suburbs. Just my personal preference.

You're absolutely right, RM.
There are people that prefer typical urban and suburban life, and I have no problem with that. It's no different than those that may prefer to live on a coast to be at/near the water, or folks that might like a typical small-town way of life. Just gotta weigh your priorities.

As a disclaimer, I will say nobody should take my opinion. I've only visited once, and that was back in '97 (the week following our SB victory over the Pats). I drove up from Chitago and liked a lot of the farmland I saw; MKE looked like most 'big' cities I've been through, and as bad as I hate to say it, Green Bay looked like a depressed, old town. There may have been some recent layoffs at the paper company, if memory serves at all, but there was nothing around town that I saw that had a real "wow" factor.

If I had my druthers, I druther be in the mountains, but we are lucky enough (to us) to live in a older neighborhood where most lots are close to, or slightly over, an acre, and in a cul-de-sac. We do have neighbors, of course, but it's very private, quiet and peaceful, and (knocking wood heavily!) crime-free. I could never live in a high-density subdivision that's too common today.

At a moment in my life when I felt alone and vulnerable I was saved by...

My gratitude knows no boundaries.

Escarpment beauty Green Bay? Let the providers deliver cigarettes to Oshkosh.

I'd possibly still live there if I would have found employment there circa 1993.

I liked the "big small town" feel it had. That said, I've lived in the Milwaukee area for 20 years and I'd probably rather be here than Green Bay.

From people I still keep in touch with, I'd heard Green Bay is a particularly tough place to get a job post-2008 economic downturn.

Reggie to Jackson. Just pop in for a year and get a ring.

It is unless you have a skill.

I would live there but it's really tough to go back to deep winter. Really, tough.

I'll go to Green Bay for football reasons, but otherwise it's San Diego all the way.

Ask A-Rod. He knows.

I currently live in Appleton and yes, other than the Packers and Lambeau Field Green Bay pretty much sucks.

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Originally posted by Tschmack:
I currently live in Appleton and yes, other than the Packers and Lambeau Field Green Bay pretty much sucks.

Need to move back here:

I would live in GB if I could. The city would be probably the biggest I have lived in, but what I do for a living doesn't exist there - or anywhere near it. But if it did, the weather wouldn't bother me and I would find my way into a Packer game or two a year.

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Originally posted by Ghost of Lambeau: ...but what I do for a living doesn't exist there - or anywhere near it...

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Originally posted by Tschmack:
I currently live in Appleton and yes, other than the Packers and Lambeau Field Green Bay pretty much sucks.

Then Appleton must really suck!

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Originally posted by chickenboy:

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Originally posted by Tschmack:
I currently live in Appleton and yes, other than the Packers and Lambeau Field Green Bay pretty much sucks.

Need to move back here:

The Ghetto in the Sky! I remember it well. Actually had my best friend live there for a year while we were in college. Horrible trash chute smells in the hallway.

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Originally posted by kcpuck:

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Originally posted by Tschmack:
I currently live in Appleton and yes, other than the Packers and Lambeau Field Green Bay pretty much sucks.

Then Appleton must really suck!

His new aggressive posting style now makes sense...

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Originally posted by chickenboy:

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Originally posted by Ghost of Lambeau: ...but what I do for a living doesn't exist there - or anywhere near it...

I am not stating what it is on line either. Just thought I'd clarify that.

Ah, fine semi coherent memories of things that probably didn't exist in real life in the first place.

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Originally posted by Tavis Smiley:

The Ghetto in the Sky! I remember it well. Actually had my best friend live there for a year while we were in college. Horrible trash chute smells in the hallway.

That place used to creep me out as I walked past while on my way home late at night from 7 corners.

Refresher:

Born/bred/raised/first laid/matriculated (Riverside High/U.W.M./married/first kid, M'waukee.

First wife------family in Green Bay (old Green Bay $$$$)---Oneida Country Cub ilk---spent lots o' time in Green Bay.

Hate.......hate, cold weather.

Second wife-------trailer trash from North Fond du Lac...

She got a job in Flori-duh and I went with (1994)

Never has been a day I wanted to go back to winter.

First wife was a bitch.

Thank-you second wife.

I like palm trees......and being tan.

Being rich don't suck either.

but being a pussy does

Ouch.

Gate pass revoked.

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Originally posted by Iowacheese:
but being a pussy does

That was hilarious!!!

Anyway, I got a nice home for 26k in a town of ~600 in South Dakota. The big city of Aberdeen, population 26,000, is 55 miles away.

Suits me better.

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Originally posted by phaedrus:
Anyway, I got a nice home for 26k in a town of ~600 in South Dakota...

Saaaaaaluuute!

When you are broke as a joke you will live just about anywhere and at that time Riverside Plaza fit the bill. Garbage chute in the hallway and all

I remember living in a 3 room apartment just slightly bigger than a birthing canal during college. Smelled about the same but had less bugs.