Comments on: Looking for Madison http://www.chicagocarless.com/2012/08/02/looking-for-madison/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=looking-for-madison A Jew-By-Choice Blog About Judaism Fri, 17 May 2013 23:07:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mike Doyle http://www.chicagocarless.com/2012/08/02/looking-for-madison/comment-page-1/#comment-12064 Mike Doyle Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:55:45 +0000 http://www.chicagocarless.com/?p=5441#comment-12064 Go to New York, instead. Miles of inner-city oceanfront beaches in my hometown, in Queens and Brooklyn.

]]> By: Rosel http://www.chicagocarless.com/2012/08/02/looking-for-madison/comment-page-1/#comment-12046 Rosel Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:46:33 +0000 http://www.chicagocarless.com/?p=5441#comment-12046 As a Chicagoan, visits to Boston always startle me. I mean, you shouldn’t have to go to Cape Cod to dip in the ocean.

]]> By: nichole http://www.chicagocarless.com/2012/08/02/looking-for-madison/comment-page-1/#comment-11805 nichole Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:00:47 +0000 http://www.chicagocarless.com/?p=5441#comment-11805 Seconded about friendliness. (Generalization: Madisonians seem quick to be friendly, but are often slow to make friends.)

Mike, did you find any poutine here? I’ve often thought Culvers should just break down and put the ingredients together – they have them all.

]]> By: Mike Doyle http://www.chicagocarless.com/2012/08/02/looking-for-madison/comment-page-1/#comment-11667 Mike Doyle Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:10:12 +0000 http://www.chicagocarless.com/?p=5441#comment-11667 Yes. And I agree, views of the lakes from the city in various places are great (and much better than the views of the lake and back towards the isthmus from the suburbs.) But that’s not the same as physical access. I will say that Tenney Park was the best access we found near downtown, and it was really wide, sweeping lakefront access. But you can also see on the Madison Parks Department’s interactive (Google) parks map that lake access is not abundant. Most of what you see in town are inland parks, or waterfront access that you have to pay for (i.e. Olbrich Gardens.)

]]> By: cybil http://www.chicagocarless.com/2012/08/02/looking-for-madison/comment-page-1/#comment-11666 cybil Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:56:49 +0000 http://www.chicagocarless.com/?p=5441#comment-11666 I lived and went to school in Madison for five years and never found the lake to be inaccessible. Did you go to James Madison Park, Tenney Park, or the Memorial Student Union on campus? Both have excellent views of the lake and surroundings and are relatively easy to get to. The street layout of downtown is tricky, but that is life on an isthmus for you.

]]> By: Mike Doyle http://www.chicagocarless.com/2012/08/02/looking-for-madison/comment-page-1/#comment-11653 Mike Doyle Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:59:08 +0000 http://www.chicagocarless.com/?p=5441#comment-11653 I can see Madison as a great place to be from, have family, live, and visit. (Preferably when it’s not 98 degrees as it was when we visited for the weekend!) I thought the students were friendly enough. I figured it works like D.C.–in Washington so many residents come and go every few years, you don’t want to get to close to them only to watch them go, and you’re also always on guard to not share things with people “on the other side” politically.

]]> By: Henry Saint Clair http://www.chicagocarless.com/2012/08/02/looking-for-madison/comment-page-1/#comment-11652 Henry Saint Clair Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:51:03 +0000 http://www.chicagocarless.com/?p=5441#comment-11652 Yep, Madison isn’t as friendly as it thinks it is. This is coming from a life-long resident. I like the vibe in Milwaukee better, but between work and family, my life is in Madison.

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