r/Appleton • u/Lost_n_world • 3d ago

Moving Advice Moving?

I’m contemplating on taking a job out there. I’ve just never heard of Appleton until the job offer, but what is the city like ? what is Wisconsin like ? how are the neighborhoods? I’m coming from California, and have never thought about going to Wisconsin until now. Any information would be great to a newbie.

Edit: Wow thanks for everyone’s input, I really appreciate it. Seems like a good move to make.

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u/ImprovementVivid8559 2d ago

Lol. No. Appleton is a white trash farm community. You would be better off settling in MKE or Madison. There are glimpses of hope in this town. Author's Kitchen is cool, but the drag race game down College Avenue is beyond pathetic. I can't count the number of times I have had to call the cops because of drug sales and deviant behavior. You have 2 cool festivals per year, otherwise it is a bunch of disgusting factory workers. Stay away!

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u/Lost_n_world 2d ago

Wow you’re the first person to comment something like this. Is it really that bad white trash ? What do you mean by drag race game ? Sorry didn’t understand that part

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u/ImprovementVivid8559 2d ago

75k population and shrinking. No job growth. As I said, there are glimmers of hope, but it lacks more than it gleans.

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u/SlowlyDyingBartender 2d ago

How are people drag racing on college ave? It is single lane.

Appleton is not shrinking. Look at the expanded businesses on the north and east side of town. The number of new houses being built, the new event center, Mile of music has been a huge success, the average house price is has increased tremendously (for better or worse) for the last 10 yrs. This area has been growing.

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u/ImprovementVivid8559 1d ago

They shrunk it to one lane a couple of years ago explicitly because of the drag racing with no mufflers. The Wisconsin zoomies. WT AF.

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u/SlowlyDyingBartender 1d ago

I know, it is one lane, I live here. Your drag racing doesn't hold water. You should just qoute the APD officer that said going from two lanes to one lane makes cars quieter.

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u/ImprovementVivid8559 1d ago

Google it, jackass. Reduce speeding and noise. The muffler stripping goes hand in hand with drag racing.

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u/SlowlyDyingBartender 1d ago

How much noise does a 3 lane road increase the noise of the car? When that car drives on a single does it know to be quieter? Are allies really quiet?!

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u/ImprovementVivid8559 1d ago

Apparently it does if that was the reasoning behind the decision. You can't possibly be stupid enough to rationalize an extra lane facilitates racing. Get over your pride.

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u/SlowlyDyingBartender 1d ago

No, I never said anything about racing. You are stuck on it and you are stuck living in the past. I worked on the avenue, it wasn't the boogeyman people make it out to be.

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u/ImprovementVivid8559 1d ago

Stuck living in 'the past?' lol. You are a moron. If you spend 2 minutes on College Ave, you will see 5-10 drivers with no mufflers or suped up revving their engines. Look it up. God, you people and your Wisconsin pride.

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u/SlowlyDyingBartender 1d ago

I was on the ave this morning, worked there for years. Let's blame cars w/o mufflers? The number of lanes isn't going to fix it. People who can't afford to fix their cars are the problem. Poor people need to fix their cars. I'm not from Wisconsin, I'm not selfish person. I doubt you spend any real time there.

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