Madison Overview | An informative introduction to Madison, Wisconsin
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2024
- Madison, Wisconsin is considered one of the most quintessential American cities. This midwest city has a fascinating origin story and several things that make it very different than other US cities. I love the city of Madison and I am excited to share some of my thought about it in this video. Thanks for watching: Madison Overview | An informative introduction to Madison, Wisconsin.
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I love the fact that Madison has heighth restrictions. It still seems to have a dense urban feel, but without the towering soulless corporate glass highrises.
Yeah even as a skyscraper fan, I appreciate the fact that Madison has those height restrictions. It helps give the city a little bit of a European feel
@@CityGeekIt could lift restrictions in certain sections while still having a historic downtown like Wilmington
@@Mothmann. Actually, not really. The east side of the capitol, the isthmus itself, has height restrictions for a different reason: the airport. The only area in the town that's going up higher is further west, near Hilldale.
I am so thrilled that my kid will be attending UW Madison, There was no doubt after visiting the city and the campus, whose identities appear to be inseparable. As an urban design junkie, Madison is about as close as it gets to a great European city. A high speed rail connection to the Twin Cities and Milwaukee (which of course would continue to Chicago) would make it perfect. The pedestrian only State Street, with its food trucks and non big box businesses transitions perfectly from University orientation to state employee orientation as it approaches the capitol. The people look so much healthier than in the rest of the country, and the non car dependence of Madison is a big reason for that. This city has everything, to include a world class university, recreation everywhere, excellent hospitals, mixed use zoning and diversity.
Those lakes look like oceans 😍 what a neat city!!!
Yeah it’s in a beautiful location!
I went to college at UW love the lakes
Except the algae blooms within a month of summer starting means rashes and possibly worse when going in the water.
@@panthro5703 Yup! Was looking for someone to mention how gross they are by the last half of summer 😅
@@jaredgenova2228 Not really the last half, just a portion of the hottest part. The algae bloomed early this year then was gone in July.
I grew up in Madison. My best memories with the friends I had are from there. Its also the nicest looking city with all the lakes around it. I miss Madison a lot.
Nice
I came as an immigrant to Madison and i am loving it
Lived here most my life and great vid! When I was younger, the building height regulation always bothered me because I thought tall buildings were cool. However as I've gotten older, I actually kind of like how it gives European city vibes. The road layout is very European too and can be confusing even to people that live here.
Thank you! I agree that it has a European vibe!
This is my city!!!! It’s amazing!!! Great video but would love for your videos to be longer. I think that would help push you in the algorithm.
Yeah I love Madison as well! Thank you! I’ll have to explore that. When I started the channel I wanted to fill the niche of short, compact city videos, but I’m sure you’re right in that the algorithm would help me out more if they were longer. Thanks for the feedback!
Such a strange history to have it planned before people lived there. Interesting!
They're gonna sink that isthmus with all that jump around though lol
Yeah I thought aspect of its history was fascinating!
Lol
Interesting videos + channel! I passed through Madison a few years ago, and I was pleasantly surprised. Beautiful downtown + University campus!
Thank you!! Yeah Madison is a beautiful city!
I visited Madison almost ten years ago, and what a lovely little city! (Have never gone to Milwaukee, in case you're wondering, but I like that too, from what I've read, heard, and watched.) Madison is to Milwaukee for Wisconsin what Edinburgh is to Glasgow for Scotland.
Reminds me ALOT of Seattle. Here in Seattle now, but would consider Madison because it's so beautiful.
Yeah they are both beautiful cities!
Madison is a beautiful city with many local reasons to enjoy during a visit.
I love Madison! I have fond memories of partying there in college. Great college town and lots to do
I love Madison and this is a great video! More Madison, please!
Thank you! It’s a great city!
Love Madison!
This channel is great. I love learning about American cities, hopefully I can live in one one day
Thank you! Hopefully you’re able to!
Love your style of speaking - too often, videos with so much information can be dull to the ear, but you kept me engaged throughout. You also covered a lot of what I was looking for and made my UWM essay a lot easier. Cheers!
Thank you!! Glad I could help!
Wisconsinite here. The city of Madison is surrounded by gorgeous geological features.........That's all I got for you.
I miss Madison, WI! Lived there for a year and half for grad school, one of the best experiences! 😢
Time to move back then! You can do it.
You have friendly voice that makes the video more watchable I might even move to Madison
Awesome!
Thank you!
Great Job!
Thank you!!
Happy new year 🥳 city geek
Thank you! Happy new year to you!
Love the Laura sighting in the market! Haha another great video!
Good eye hahahah
Lol. Thanks!
simple but informative enough
I'm from Madison still here is beautiful place to live.
I’ve lived in Wisconsin for 12-13 years now n I have never been to Madison. Loved in Waukesha for 10 year n then moved to Milwaukee in 2019 now still living in Milwaukee n always wanted to go visit that city
My father used to study here, I am thinking about studying there same as my father, greetings from 🇸🇦
Good write up. Short and concise
Thank you!
Very Great Video!!!!!! Of My Hometown F+L, Corey
Thank you!!
Very well done. Thanks from "Sconnie" Mike
Thank you!!
Home of the late great Chris Farley
just graduated from tcu (fort worth, tx), im an oc ca native… looking for a place to start a new chapter of my life. madison is looking to be it. 💓
Tons of people who come for business, I’m 30 minutes from there and work there. Used to work as a valet and tons of the people said they go to Madison often
Nice Video!
I'm not from Madison, but I do work there currently, and I'm from a tiny town about 25 minutes SE of it. I'm not a city girl, so I would never want to live there, but I generally don't mind spending time there.
Thank you!!
Its a small town not a city
Madison is a small town? It has a population of around 300,000.... That's a city ... Not a "small town" lol
Aka "De Jope" the name given by the original inhabitants, the Ho-Chunk tribe, who were driven out.
City Geek nice video when gone do one Houston
Thanks! Sometime later this year
Madison's building height regulations has certainly defined it's unique character, which is very rear in the US. I wonder what's the condition of the public transportation?
Hi there, Madison has really good public transport and you can pretty much go anywhere with the bus!! It’s awesome and pretty consistent, clean, and safe. It can definitely get crowded but it’s awesome having a consistent bus schedule.
Yup, it’s bus system is vast. And it’s the only motor transportation that can go on state street making them have relatively fast cycles in certain areas
They're currently reworking the transit system to make traffic lights prioritize buses.
Its a shame there arent more songs about Wisconsin.
One stipulations while it is a building regulation prohibit any building being taller than the capitol there was one that was build taller on purpose however I do believe it was shortened.
Yeah back in the 90's or so I think AT&T was going to build much higher but it wasn't approved.
You could make me wanna move anywhere hahah
Lol
1:38 thank God they put that statue back up.
I live on state street :D
Just moved here Monday. Lived in WI my whole life, travled and I just like this city the most. Since I am Scottish Irish, winter is ok for me. Sun makes me melt..lol
Can you please do Chicago
Chicago is one of my favorite cities in the country so I’ll definitely do a video on it at some point. I’m waiting on doing major cities like Chicago, NYC, LA and DC until my channel is a little bigger so it may be awhile
Totally regretted moving there. Place is rank with heroin and homeless. Can't go downtown without seeing someone using the restroom on the street or overdosing.
Just like any other left cesspool in the US.
Can you do a video on college station Texas
I haven’t had that request yet but I’ll add it to the list 😊 Thanks for the suggestion!
Moved there from Chicago when I was 10 in 1980. Moved back to Chicago in 1984. Have not been to Madison since. Been curious to see what it is like now. But after reading the comments it seems it is best not to go!
Beautiful city. REAL lakes. Unlike Texas cities.
You never mention where the first state capital was...
Do a video on Whitewater WI
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I found it incredibly dull….was checking out college towns and definitely preferred Bloomington. But, that’s me. Peace.
No more law prohibiting tall buildings.
I was wondering about that, if they want to grow they have to build up.
Downtown Madison is 100 percent gorgeous. But step two feet out of downtown and it's suburban hell. Love to visit. But I'd never live there.
LoL! There is not a single place thats dangerous here in Madison…..been here my whole life
Suburban hell, lol. You have no idea what you're talking about.
@@nesmith2621 Last time I was in Madison, I stayed at a hotel that couldn't have been more than a mile from downtown and there was a six lane freeway between my room and the stores across the street in what should have been a walkable neighborhood. Something like that would never happen in Chicago or Milwaukee.
@@KnightBoat I’m curious, were you staying in a hotel near the mall on East Washington or more towards the coliseum on the other side of the city? Because even though East Wash is 3 lanes on each side there are many bridges/tunnels for pedestrians to cross unimpeded, they are most often found along the bike paths but I know that some others also exist a bit farther off. The same goes for all of the larger roads especially when you get closer to downtown. If you were staying closer to the campus or the west side I must admit that I don’t go there as often on bike but when driving in the area I can say that there are pedestrian bridges along some of the larger roads there too. If you’re talking about the beltline, yeah I can see that but the same can be said there as was said for the other streets just slightly less so and it’s not exactly in the middle of the city either.
I picked up a black women in Milwaukee from Madison in an Uber. Asked her how she liked Madison. She said they had a not in my backyard mentality with regards to black people.
my name is maddison
Is it Democrat or republican there
Generally speaking, Madison is blue and Wisconsin is purple.
Dem candidates usually get +75% of the vote in Madison. One of the most solidly blue cities in the country.
It is very left…..yuck.
Madison is left but that doesn't mean they are cool. People here are uptight and wound up during and after the pandemic.
If your far left, you’ll love it!
No thanks then
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I love it!❤
Oh, that’s awesome! Can’t wait to visit this summer!!
A city overrun by the university of Wisconsin. It owns and controls way too much of the land on and around the isthmus.
universities can control cities?
FLW did NOT design the convention center. It is a " homage" to his work, and it pales to his original design.
He created the original design, which was updated- when the project was finally approved. The exterior is still mostly his, but the design for the interior was done by one of his apprentices.
I was born and raised there I lived there the first 29 years of my life and I've spent the last one year of my life living in Phoenix arizona. Yes, I moved out of there partially because of the weather but I need to change my life. The thing I don't like about Madison Wisconsin is because it is basically communist Cuba as an enclave in the United States but it's a beautiful city, there's lots of job opportunities there and if you are a hardcore liberal and interested in making a decent wage it's a good place for you. Also I recommend getting yourself a bike.
"Communist Cuba" Come on. It's a successful city and the citizens are engaged with each other and their government.
Makes me so sad that learning about anything in America starts with genocide . We have a very embarrassing history .wish they were more honest about it in school
Was there something in the video you were referring to?
@@pre-q8s just the beginning when they were talking about the “origins” of madison
@@willaedwards9055 oh gotcha. Well there are certainly some dark moments in American history, but I wouldn’t say that everything started with genocide. There are far more things to be proud of America for than to be ashamed imo
@@pre-q8s for sure but I can’t help but see it more negative sometimes.lots to be proud of but also so much to regret .I guess that’s everywhere in the world tho .I guess the only difference is how we learn about it all .everywhere is different
@@willaedwards9055 It helps when one considers the ongoing genocides in other parts of the world today. I know it helps me feel a bit more grateful.
It’s at best, mediocre
Corrupt local politicians, dishonest police and lots of crime. Madison is a mess.
Like all democratic places
blaaaahhhh
Segregation rate high but beautiful nice dangerous for trafficking Kings
Madtown got ghetto as hell. Didn’t see homeless camps 4 years ago… that place sucks now.
Most the time the lake's are not safe to go in ! And it's getting a lot like Milwaukee !
@@alanfoix9911
If you think Madison is anything close to dangerous, you need to get out more
@@BillyT886 you sound like the best president ever. Ever thing is great 👍
Yep I am hearing that a lot more and more. It was a matter of time before it went to hell
Madison had a cool vibe 10 years ago. Now it's very uptight.
I’ve moved 25+ times in my life, Madison is probably one of the worst places I have ever lived, I would rather move back to Livonia just outside of Detroit. Gunshots every.single.night, raising out rent by $500, and the constant smell of raw sewage throughout the city finally pushed us out. Sun prairie is almost worse though due to the rampant gang violence.
What part of the city did you live in?
@@James-ev4bb I have lived in Middleton, DeForest, Stoughton, and the south side of Madison. It’s all the same, but it’s been getting way worse the past couple of years.
I can totally see where you're coming from. I grew up in the area and stayed for college, and I left after my last final exam and didn't even walk in my graduation ceremony so I could gtfo asap. Never looked back. Too many folks there have a utopia-like attitude towards the city that I think is misplaced. Sure, certain areas of downtown and certain parks are pretty, but it's just not a very big city, so the "cool" stuff gets stale within a few years. And once you've exhausted yourself on those places and things, you're left with being entirely reliant on driving and living in ares of town that are basically overpriced run of the mill strip-mall suburbs. It's not a very exciting place, coupled with kind of dirty tap water (especially downtown), overly inflated rent prices, poorly run public transportation, and a highly educated populace that can make the job market difficult for job seekers. I'm happy I left, and I rarely visit. I think it could be an easy place to live if you're more of a homebody and want to get home from work relatively quickly, with easy access to a grocery store or two along the way.
Oh, and the lakes are effing gross. No one talks about that. You go in Mendota or Monona July-Sept and most years there is, like, flesh eating algae in the water. We used to go in when we were kids, and even as a seven year old I thought they stunk and were super gross.
Yeah it has gone downhill I keep reading
Lived here all my life and never smelled sewage "throughout the city". Maybe you were smelling algae from the lakes?
For those who have lived here for a long time, Madison is going downhill fast. A certain culture is like a pestilence we now suffer. Homicides, shootings, unsafe neighborhoods, car theft thru the roof...
Everyone keeps saying that. It wa sonly a matter of time
Yeah everyone says this but it not dangerous. Yes this is crime but this no bad neighborhoods. I am pretty sure it just made a list recently for safest places to live
I live here and experience none of that.. the police force has always been exceptional
No it isn't. You're just watching too much news.
@@robertpreston2220 No, they literally are not. These opinions are coming from a few paranoid shut-ins and close-minded small-towners terrified of other people.
One of the worst cities I have ever lived in!
Born and raised here I have a love-hate relationship with Madison