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By OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writers

Published Aug. 23, 2009 at 9:06 a.m.

Tags: travel, airtran, free recession buster giveaways

There's a lot of travel talk at OnMilwaukee.com these days, thanks to the "Free Recession Buster Getaways" contest that will send winning blog writers to six cool cities. Most will agree that travel is important for new experiences to broaden perspectives. Not to mention, traveling is a lot of fun.

However, after the big trip, when you return home, what are your feelings about Milwaukee? Are you left pining for certain aspects of other cities or do you feel more appreciative of what's here? Sound-off, Milwaukee!

Travel makes me love Brew City. It's great to journey beyond this fine city, but every time I return, I am thrilled to be back. We have so many opportunities here, and it's such an easy city to enjoy a comfortable life. Wherever I go, I am always happy to be home.

Travel makes me want to move. Often, when I travel, I come back to Milwaukee and do not understand why I live here. This city is lacking so many things, from retail outlets to public transportation, and it frustrates me.

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Posted by Caetano on Aug. 26, 2009 at 9:55 a.m. (report)

I think Milwaukee has a lot to offer in the summer, but the rest of the year I think I'd be happy living somewhere else - & it's just not b/c of the weather. Like others mentioned, it seems Milwaukee is literally stuck in the past - we do need better public transport (let's get a high speed train going throughout the county & to Chicago and Madison!), and the lack of variety of restaurants here is horrible. If I want great food I always head to Chicago and am never disappointed. As for theater - there's rarely a good performance here. Drive around downtown Milwaukee on a non-festival weekend - it's completely dead - everyone stays at home in the 'burbs. There's no 'life' downtown.

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Posted by ozricale on Aug. 25, 2009 at 1:56 p.m. (report)

I always appreciate coming back home to Milwaukee. It may not have the pizzazz of some larger cities, but as a "boutique" city it has the amenities of a large town with fewer hassles. I agree that we need to be more forward-thinking though.

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Posted by pdid on Aug. 24, 2009 at 11:08 a.m. (report)

I'm not sure if the thing that works against Milwaukee is Milwaukee or the fact that it's part of high-tax liberal-whacko Wisconsin. When I travel and say I'm from Milwaukee I get a lot of "not many people admit that!" Milwaukee's reputation is somewhere between 1950's Laverne and Shirley and a socialist republic. Wisconsin is unfriendly to business, high-tax on it's citizens, oppressive in regulation, user fees up the kazoo....what's there to like. I have a game-plan for getting out and I can't wait to leave.

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Posted by MKEpantherfan on Aug. 24, 2009 at 10:05 a.m. (report)

I travel for my job. I have been to every major city in the US, but more importantly, I have been to cities of comparable size to Milwaukee. Each place I go, I realize how many great things Milwaukee has, and of course, the areas we need to improve upon. However, I strongly feel that since 2000, MKE has made leaps and bounds in improving its image, expecially in and around Downtown. I think more and more of the cities residence realize we need to change and add things like the Public market, pedestrian friendly streets, improved riverwalk etc. Overall, when I am in cities like San Diego, New Orleans, or even our southern neighbors in Chicago, I see many things that remind me of specific things back home, telling me that Milwaukee is a great American city, if you know how and where to enjoy it.

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Posted by jeffjay60 on Aug. 24, 2009 at 7:15 a.m. (report)

I travel regularly to Seattle, Chicago, NY and LA. What I miss in Milwaukee that all of those cities, with the exception of LA, have is decent public transportation. I not dreaming of a subway system in Milwaukee, but please, can we have integrated street car, bus and train service that actually goes somewhere you want to go.

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