Hello Milwaukeeans.

I was raised in Milwaukee and four years after we married my Husband kept getting jobs from the west coast to the east coast, which is where we live now, in Massachusetts.  We have been gone from Milwaukee since 1987, and are planning on moving back home.  I lived in California, Illnois, and Massachusetts.  I tell all the friends that I have made over the years what a wonderful city Milwaukee is and how the people are the nicest and kindest, and honest.  I have enjoyed some of the other cities we lived in, but really none of them even come close to matching up to Milwaukee.  So many wonderful festivals, parks, beaches, Clean and very repaired streets, that all have storm sewers, and here in Massachusetts there are almost just a .0005% of what Milwaukee has.  And I have never understood why they didn't have storm sewers in all the roads because of all the rain they have in either from the end of herricans, and more inches of rain all winter then snow,  And the weather all year is always damp.  I am so much looking forward to coming home to the wonderful dry cold in the winter and the dry evening summer nights.  I do understand the all of you from Milwaukee have been to other cities all around the nation either for a vacation or relocation like we have had. 

Oh my God, the parks in Milwaukee are so beautiful compared to any other city or town that I have lived in.  And I miss Mayor Maier, and think of him often about how good he was to Milwaukee.  There never would have been a summer fest if he was not in office after the first year of summer fest.  I lived in Illinois first then California then back to Illinois then off to Massachusetts, which is a pretty state, and the area where we live now is Pembroke, and rural like with very large lots and many acres between our houses, which is so nice not to be so close to your neighbor where you could borrow a cup of sugar and just pass it to each other through your windows.  Though I love Milwaukee so much that I don't really care how close I will be to the people next door to me.  And it will be nice to hear people using the letter "R" in their words speaking, so many people here tell me that I sould like the women from .  I miss George Webbs, and all the German resturants in downtown.  And my husband and I always had seasonal tickest to the Bucks.  I am hopeing to be coming home to visit my family of two brother and two sisters, and all my neices , nephew and great neices and great nephews, and all the friends I grew up with and worked with and some were from Joe Schlitz brewing, and we owned a bar called Doc's Saloon on National Ave. in West Allis, and at that time we lived on Burrell street which was just a block from Chase Ave. 

So many times I play the song called 'I am a Milwaukeean' and it sings about all the resturants, bars, sport teams, and I will sing it very loud and afterwards my eyes fill with tears.  I am going to be coming home probably in about from a year and a half to two years all depending how long takes to sell our home and have my husband find a job and with the economy so bad a job will take a long time to get, but the equity in our home here will be enough to buy a house in Milwaukee and just pay it all off then have no mortgage payments.  My sister is a mortgage broker and tells me all the time how easy it will be for us to get a home to be able to pay for it all with our equity.  I am looking forward to seeing all of your faces and eating and drinking at all the resturants and bars that you all go to.  I actually have a friend here that is thinking about moving out of Massachusetts with her husband and two daughter and I have talked her into considering going to the VERY BEST CITY IN THIS WHOLE NATION. 

I just don't say that it is the best because I lived there, I tell everybody that because I trully belive that to be true when I compare Milwaukee to all other cities that I lived in for too long.  Ha Ha Ha  So all of you please be happy and comfortable being there in the best city ever.  And I was so excited to see this web site and stay in touch with all of you wonderful Milwaukee'ins.  

Have a good winter, Love Mary Ann