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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, sounds like you are talking about Milwaukee.  I live in the upper Midwest and also grew up in NYC.  The problem I have is how insular place lsike Milwaukee, Detroit, St. Louis, and Cleveland are.  [b]Very few people move in and out.  Most of the people grew up, went to school, and married someone locally and have never lived anywhere else.  Your spouse is going to go up against people who have friends and family in the area forever. [/b] If its a 2-5 year stint, fine, anything else, not great.  Cheap housing isn't the only thing in life.  [/quote]

I'm the PP who lasted 3 years in one of the cities you mention above and that was EXACTLY my experience.  It was hard to make friends because everyone grew up in neighboring suburbs and had known each other since elementary school.  We were in a very desirable close-in suburb and there was also this sense of provincialism and self-satisfaction that they had "made it" to the desirable suburb.  It played into the racism mentioned in my PP.  They had grown up in a neighboring suburb with, like 25% minorities but had managed to "trade up" to the all white suburb and were super proud of themselves.  My husband's company was the one who suggested the neighborhood, and I don't know what they were thinking. [/quote]

Maybe it was just that no one liked you, not hard to believe since you looked down on all of them as "provincial" and "racist."      [/quote]

+1 People are good at recognizing a warm, genuine, friendly, intelligent, hard-working person who isn't bragging and/or looking down on them.[/quote]

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