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Drunk Cheesehead of the Day - Resurrected!

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Wah-saw, if you were wondering, is basically St. Cloud but about half the size.
 
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Kepler said:
Seems legit.

Locals: please elucidate "Wausau."
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Located in the center of the state from E to W, in the northern third of the state, it's the WI version of St. Cloud, MN. Only it's in WI, and you take the bad things about St. Cloud and magnify them. Seriously.
 
St. Clown said:
Located in the center of the state from E to W, in the northern third of the state, it's the WI version of St. Cloud, MN. Only it's in WI, and you take the bad things about St. Cloud and magnify them. Seriously.
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That really puts an emphasis on things, coming from you! :D
 
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Wausau is a little like St. Cloud in that it benefits from lake country culture but is not located in lake country, which is just under an hour north. It is on the north edge of a very productive ag zone where a large amount of land is owned and farmed by large corporate interests. It is on the Wisconsin River and was once a big timber town (white pine). No meaningful college presence to mitigate the close-minded suckage of small town midwestern life. A lot of people from southern and eastern Wisconsin and Illinois go to the lake country north of there in the summer and for skiing and snowmobiling in winter. Decent hockey in the small towns of the area.

Not all small towns in northern WI are like that. Hayward, which is north and west of Wausau and has a population of under 3,000, hosts the World Lumberjack Championships, the largest mountain bike race in North America, and the Birkebeiner. Not sure which Minnie town is most like Hayward: Bemidji, Baudette, Warroad?
 
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Hayward reminds me of Brainerd, MN, with its tourism.
 
St. Clown said:
I lived for four years in St. Cloud. I've seen its ugly side, and that ugly side is city equivalent of a Tech 3.
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Hey I did the St. Cloud roadtrip twice, and I've seen it. I know.

I have said this before, but I did the first trip solo, and I stayed at the Thrifty Motel on the other side of the river. I have never seen a sadder bunch of people outside of either the Tenderloin in Frisco after dark, or the real Skid Row (in LA).
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I have never seen a sadder bunch of people outside of either the Tenderloin in Frisco after dark
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That's a tough league. I'd also submit:

Windsor, ON
Montreal: Greek wharves
Hoboken

That's my hat trick of skid rows (skids row?). Woof.
 
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joecct said:
They're gentrifying Hoboken, you know. Camden, OTOH.
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I haven't been to Hoboken in a dozen years.

The true **** hole town in NJ is Elizabeth, but I was only counting skid rows.
 
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