Post by @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

Urban Milwaukee: City Program Will Pay You $9,000 To Move to Milwaukee

"...The City of Milwaukee and workforce development agency Employ Milwaukee are launching Milwaukee Fresh, a new talent recruitment program designed to attract up to 50 households from outside Wisconsin.

The program offers relocation reimbursements of up to $9,000, depending on household size, as well as assistance finding housing and establishing connections in the community.... To qualify, applicants must currently live outside Wisconsin, move into the city of Milwaukee and have an annual household income of at least $55,000...."

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/11/11/city-program-will-pay-you-9000-to-move-to-milwaukee/

Urban Milwaukee

City Program Will Pay You $9,000 To Move to Milwaukee

Relocation program aims to attract residents, skilled workers from out of state.

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Gdac

@Gdac@mastodon.world 11 min. ago

@ai6yr what will they pay me to stay here?

AI6YR Ben

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org 9 min. ago

@Gdac 😂

Faraiwe

@faraiwe@mstdn.social 43 min. ago

@ai6yr Huh

Problems
1- you end up in Winsconsin
2- you end up in Milwaukee
3- $9k? That's barely enough for a couple to move their things across country.
4- only applies if you have no friends, if you had friends they'd talk you out of moving there.

Shannon Clark

@Rycaut@mastodon.social 36 min. ago

@faraiwe @ai6yr on the other hand everyone I know who lives in Wisconsin are pretty excellent. There is a huge geek community in Wisconsin (in Milwaukee and Madison especially) and while I’m not going to move myself (in-laws live here in CA and we love my son’s school) I do, in fact, have a lot of friends in Wisconsin some of whom are in Milwaukee and it would be a fine place to live. And midwesterners are pretty friendly (I grew up outside of Chicago and lived in Chicago for decades).

nshrubs

@Nshrubs@mstdn.social 16 min. ago

@Rycaut @faraiwe @ai6yr Agree. I met a lot of wonderful teachers from Wisconsin who moved here to WA after Scott Walker & his hideous WI GOP passed Act 10 & made their lives a living hell. We just lost a teacher last year who went back to WI because most of her family is still there, plus housing is WAY cheaper there than here & Scott Walker is now a wanna be with no power who just pops up on Fox occasionally to blather incessantly about stupid crap.

Faraiwe

@faraiwe@mstdn.social 35 min. ago

@Rycaut @ai6yr well, yeah, there has been a steady immigration of humans into Milwaukee, for the past 2 decades or so. They even have breweries that serve other-than-IPA.

But, still, you open an online map of Milwaukee and there are more "VISIT MILWAUKEE!!!" public centers than attractions.And the nearest Jiffy Lube counts as a feature.

Faraiwe

@faraiwe@mstdn.social 31 min. ago

@Rycaut @ai6yr S.O. is a first responder mil. She travels the country. A lot. One of her coworkers was (left) a razor-edge-smart black lady, excellent friend of ours. They were in Milwaukee. Said friend was waiting for S.O., parking lot, leaning on their brand new rental truck. Someone actually came to check about what was going on, and not in a positive way. And that was only the second time they went there.

Hatfields n McCoys, man

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AI6YR Ben

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org 34 min. ago

@faraiwe @Rycaut 🤔

Carsten Franke

@carstenfranke@mastodon.social 40 min. ago

@faraiwe @ai6yr on the positive side, Milwaukee is only frozen for 6 out of 12 months.

AI6YR Ben

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org 43 min. ago

@faraiwe 🤷

Faraiwe

@faraiwe@mstdn.social 40 min. ago

@ai6yr I mean,good steak and cheese... otherwise, it's russian-cold and the usual Midwest thing of corn and racism.

J Miller

@JMMaok@mastodon.online 57 min. ago

@ai6yr

The strange thing is that $55,000 income is presumably coming from a job outside of Wisconsin. And if they are looking to attract retirees or digital nomads, that doesn’t make much sense from an Employ Milwaukee perspective.

Eugene Parnell

@eugeneparnell@mstdn.social 1 hr. ago

@ai6yr wait what? Up to 50? Who is the person that said "hey we got a million people here now but things are still in bad shape. Looks like another 50 households ought to do it, though."

AI6YR Ben

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org 1 hr. ago

@eugeneparnell 🤷

Bekah

@bolderbekah@mastodon.social 1 hr. ago

@ai6yr only $3K for a single person household, which probably doesn't cover much more than a long distance moving truck.

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