RE: Tell me why you hate Wisconsin?

To be honest, I can't stand Wisconsinites for the same reason I can't stand most Yankees. That being their singsong voice and the tendency to move down south and brag about how cool Wisconsin is. My experience has been that most Wisconsinites are braggarts, drunkards and carpetbaggers. I have been to Kenosha, and it was just a big nasty industrial town with bars on every corner. But by Golly, you Yankees sure can brag about that!

This guy nailed it too though:1. Morally and ethically corrupt governor.2. Republican led house average IQ 72.3. Packers obsession gets very old. Milwaukee news stations lead off with Packer stories six months of the year.4. Cheesehead thing is a tired joke.5. Winter lasts from Oct. 15 to May 15.I'm from Wisconsin and live in California and always get culture shock when i return home to see my parents. madison is great as mentioned, but isn't "wisconsin" either. it's an isolated academic province

Visited many times as a kid and lived in Madison for a summer while in college. So I've been all over the state many times but on a limited basis.

What's said about the brutal winters and blazing hot/humid summers is true.

Beer, brats, and Badgers. No doubt, but you can get by with that. Packers would be tough to stomach (the fans, not the team so much) unless you are a pre-made fan.

They do think they are kind of cool there. Almost as much as Minnesotans. People in both states talk a little funny and it gets funnier the further north you get.

I applied and interviewed for a job there, at a college in the northern half of the state. They said that I'd have to pay for the interview if I turned the job down. Fortunately, they did not offer the job.

to all of the people who said they hated wisconsin for idiotic reasons, please fight me.

People outside of Wisconsin will dislike the place because of its people. The small populations result in a lack of social skills. Though when someone new with appealing characteristics (I.e. good looks, athleticism, etc.) they always make poor attempts to get the attention of the outsider through antagonistic remarks, usually lying "or speculation". On top of their poor behavior, Wisconsites' always blame other people for there mistakes/behavior, often putting their problems on other people rather than solve them.

Madison, Wisconsin itself void of the people is alright. The people have low self esteem and often want to stay in their "small town reality", away from the skilled, or gifted people (considered competition).

Often when trying to get attention females will take the most passive lazy approach of walking slowly in front of you. Sometimes blocking your path, touching their hair, or some other scared effortless attempt. Where I come from the interested person starts a conversation. Its understood the interested person is physically attracted and know they need to show additional worth when unequal.

Both the young and old men will lie anytime you wear a hat. It could be 20 degrees and they will accuse you, under there breath, of being bald... but only if you are better looking or more confident than them.

Most Wisconsinites have no chance thriving in the real world due to their poor manners and low self-esteem. I doubt most other Americans will have to tolerate Wisconsites. They like their imaginary world. Its unlikely they will move across state lines.

Also yesterday it was cold and while wearing a hat to Walmart, I was criticized by an old man for purchasing shampoo, while an additional three made the same ignorant self-gratifying (usually intentional) assumption.

I really dislike it here in Wisconsin. Here are some complaints.

- People are very fat. I'm OK with fat people if they are trying to lose weight or at least admit they are fat & unhealthy. Fat people here have fat friends & fat family members, & they seem to take pride in their fatness with zero desire to change.

- Fashion. I'm not the best dressed or most up to date myself, but people here don't even try. The common theme is an extra large red Badger hoodie with baggie blue jeans, often carpenter style jeans from the 90s, Nike shoes & untidy facial hair that hasn't been trimmed for 10 days. Put on a pair of semi-slim pants, somewhat fitted sweater, & Converse shoes & you'll stick out severely. Other than Milwaukee, there's no culture or scene in this state.

- Politics. Most states I've lived in the residents keep to themselves about politics, but not here. As a moderate I find both sides equally annoying, dumb, & in your face. The right's views are mostly based on fear of the unknown & what could happen to their safe comfy city/town. E.g. "If we approve the school referendum then we'll each pay $500 a year in taxes! I heard it from Charles while eating in the diner." The left isn't any better. You simply can't debate or reason with the left here. They're extremely smug & mostly spend their time throwing insults if you don't agree with their narrow & simplistic views.

- Madison is so overrated. (But Milwaukee is underrated.) Locals love to go on & on about how great Madison is & like to think it's a Portland, Seattle or San Francisco. Please! It's a bitter cold or humid college town with 2 polluted smelly lakes filled with blue algae. Got to love swimming in the lakes filled with

phosphate pollution coming from farm manure! State street's filled with homeless people & useless, boring, over priced independent shops & restaurants that all try way too hard to be hip. I love to ask the locals how Madison is better than any other college town like Ann Arbor, Minneapolis, Boulder, Knoxville. Their usual pathetic response is - 'oh don't cha know there's just so much ta do wit the arb, da union, da pretty lakes & of course the Badgers are like the best team ever.' Uh huh bucko. Try again. Madison isn't anything special other than the over priced housing thanks in large part to Epic as of late. Thanks to the change in politics, the good professors & researchers are now leaving the universities.

- Badgers. Badger fans are rude, loud, dumb, drunk, & they brag non-stop. How dumb do you have to be to throw snowballs at your own cheerleaders (forcing them to leave) or chant "you can't read" to a black freshman? They better cherish the 2nd place they got last year because that's the closest they'll ever come to a championship in football or basketball in the next 100 years. When the Badgers lose, all the fans do is either blame the refs or say some lame comment like "we don't do rent-a-players like Duke & UK." I admit, it's cute watching your white players advance in the tourney while playing old school defense schemes. Football's a joke with the watered down schedule each year & the extra watered down conference play of Minnesota, Northwestern, etc. Thankfully Urb & Harbaugh will put them in their place in the coming years.

- Drunks. Please stop drinking so much. You embarrass yourselves & make a scene whenever you leave your miserable state. You do realize it's not normal to drink 12 Brandy Old-Fashions during 1 Packer game right?

- Overrated scenery. Wisconsinites have a lot of pride regarding how beautiful the state is. It's not beautiful though. Parts of the driftless area is scenic & if you can handle bitter cold & swarms of mosquitos, then parts of the rivers in the northwoods & parts of the north shore are scenic. The rest is flat, mostly treeless (minus the north woods), boring & pretty much a wasteland. Have these residents never been out west to see actual scenery? Or even to the southern U.S. or Appalachians? Wisconsin is scenic?!?

My name is Yon Yonson,

I live in Wisconsin.

I work in a lumber yard there.

The people I meet as

I walk down the street,

They say "Hello!"

I say "Hello!"

They say "What's you're name."

I say: My name is Yon Yonson

"unique Wisconsin tradition of driving your car on what you are sure is a frozen lake, then fall through."

Now they do drink more Brandy in Wisconsin...however being sure that the lake is frozen and having your vehicle fall through is not unique to the skonnies. It also happens in Minnesota!

I got to admit that most of this is spot on. The only thing I object to is calling fields wastelands. Farmland has it's own beauty that one may have to grow up on a farm to understand.

The only thing that you forgot is the horrible condition of the roads due to the constant freeze/ thaw.

From Wisconisn wrote:

I got to admit that most of this is spot on. The only thing I object to is calling fields wastelands. Farmland has it's own beauty that one may have to grow up on a farm to understand.

That's true. Farmers here can maximize every inch of land & produce something of value.

Something I forgot to mention is that people here are very outgoing & talkative. If you're an introvert like myself, you'll be in for a surprise. I've never lived somewhere that people just come up to you & start talking about anything. And that's when they're sober. Imagine when they're drinking.

Wisconsin is terrible, the worst place ever. Please don't move here. Please stay away, Those stories you hear about great schools, good roads, beautiful lakes and forests and unpretentious, friendly people are myths. Don't move here. Seriously! Please don't!

I am from Northern Nevada, I am a 49ers season ticket holder, and I spend football's off-season in Southeast Asia.

I love Wisconsin. Great state, Great beer, Great cheese, Crap Governor.

I love my extended family's dairy farm, waking up at 4:00am to milk the cows, then eating a hearty breakfast (including milk straight from said cows), running on rolling farm roads and SNOWMOBILING!!!

The good folks of Wisconsin are friendly and unpretentious, and they have a great football tradition. The Packers are not my team obviously but they have my utmost respect.

Lambeau Field is absolutely the best stadium in the NFL (since Candlestick is now gone). I went to the 49ers vs Packers Wild Card game in January 2014 and had a GREAT TIME but man was it cold!

If you are mentally weak in your running, you will not like Wisconsin due to the cold weather. I like the cold weather. I like Wisconsin. Don't change anything (except the Governor).

Are you a libtard?

^This is pretty right on in my experience. Especially the Madison & Milwaukee bits. Madison is wwwwwaaaaayyyyy overrated. Obviously, UW is a good school and--at least in the recent past--their distance program and XC were top notch. But Madison as city isn't that great. Milwaukee, on the hand, is way underrated. The East side, river west, the third ward and bay view are cool. It is a bit gritty and the city can be pretty dangerous but, overall, it's better than Madison. Scott Walker is, of course, a complete moron but I think we all know and can completely agree with that fact.

I lived in Wisconsin and other parts of the Midwest in my youth and, frankly wouldn't move back unless I absolutely had to do so. The West and Mountain West are far superior in just about everyway. But, if I had to move back Milwuakee would be high on my list of places to go. Oh and, Midwest >>>>> South in just about everyway. The South is disgusting.

Woah this was oddly specific post, lol. Sounds like you have a complex about being accused of being bald. You really need to get over it dude. Your whole post was just projecting your insecurities on other people and was kind of painful to read. You say that

'the people have low self esteem and often want to stay in their "small town reality"' and ' Its unlikely they will move across state lines' lol. I guess if you spend most of your time around people who are uneducated or who spend most of their free time watching sports and getting drunk instead of studying towards their goals in their profession or career, then yea you're going to see a lot of people that will never leave where they are living right now. Just because Madison is a college town, doesn't mean that there aren't ignorant people that live there too. I'm pretty sure that if you moved to a town near Chicago or Minneapolis, you'd run into the exact same types of people. There are some people who are so poor that they will never move out of the larger cities or even see the city limits. If anything, I'd think that you'd find more people in Madison that are equipped with good communication skills since there are people that come from all over just to attend the college in Madison.

Yea, you're going to run into people that jump to conclusions about how you look in small cities and that's just the nature of the beast. At least in larger population centers, you have a way to escape and I went off to college 10 years ago and when I came back for the summer I had grew my hair long. I'll never forget the stares that that I got when returning to small city in Wisconsin. I had some people ask if it was real or if I was jewish because it was curly ( lol ). Ignorance is like the common cold, it exists everywhere and you can't escape it. Just carry on with your life and you'll do fine. And there's nothing wrong with getting the eff out of where you're at if its driving you nuts.

kikKomen Soi sauce wrote:

My name is Yon Yonson,

I live in Wisconsin.

I work in a lumber yard there.

The people I meet as

I walk down the street,

They say "Hello!"

I say "Hello!"

They say "What's you're name."

I say: My name is Yon Yonson

No love here for the Queen of Wisconsin: Suzy Favor Hamilton ?

Wisconsin's a cool place. There's definitely a distinct culture there that's extroverted and distinct. As an east coast resident, we see it as a faraway place where people are robust, the weather is cold but everything seems to work. The upper midwest states (MN, WI) seem to be more desirable in general than the rest of flyover country.

My number one reason why I LOVE Wisconsin is because we helped Hillary lose the election.

beer brats badgers packers wrote:

Like all places it has its pluses and minuses. They tend to be a bit provincial but then again so are Bostonians and New Yorkers. Winters are long and tough. Northern part is kind of redneck. Not a bad place but it depends on your perspective and where you'd be living.

I don't *hate* it.

But all of the fat white people certainly make it unattractive.