I grew up WI, liked it there, but grew tired of the winters.
One thing that your children will miss is the culture. There is no where near the culture in WI as in CA, so they won’t have access to things out there like they do here.
No sushi or thai, unless you get noodles & co. pad thai. As far as little local places to go eat, not many, WI has a lot of food chains, not much more.
I think they banned smoking in restaurants, they did it before, but it didn’t stick, hopefully it does this time.
Madison is an awesome city, my wife sometimes discuss if we were ever to move back where would we live, and Madison or Milwaukee would be the choice. It has a nice lake, is clean, and it seems like education is in the air.
That said, the winters are long, weeks of grey, 12 noon and it’s almost dark as night, days of being inside. Last but not least, winter weight.
I don’t have kids, so of course my opinion differs. I grew up there, and when I came out here I felt robbed, I didn’t realize how white the area I grew up in was. All the asian comments on this site blow me away sometimes, I never had access to an asian population to know their quirks.
Hearing the talks you guy have, I dread the time my wife and I do decide to have kids though.
BTW: 6000 sq. ft. house? WTF? Who needs that? Shaq?
