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why would anyone think it does?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Coming from Minneapolis, I have no idea. Minneapolis is not full of Dead/phish/heads.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

it also has no one single region as concentratedly good as the campus-state street-capitol area. unfortunately.

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 19:40 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

need tips on apts in madison

― amateurist0, Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:49 (twenty years ago)

I got your back, yo. What are you looking to pay?

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:51 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) Why, are you moving there? I have some friends there, and I can try to see if they know anything. (Also, obv Jordan and Haikunym are there, too.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:52 (twenty years ago)

i dunno, no more than 650 for a 1br. starting august

― amateurist0, Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:55 (twenty years ago)

i don't drive, so...somewhere relatively close to campus or bus lines? but not where all the undergrads come out to party.

― amateurist0, Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:57 (twenty years ago)

So ... are you transferring? Lured by David Bordwell and Noel Carroll?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:00 (twenty years ago)

sssssssh

― amateurist0, Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:00 (twenty years ago)

*wink*

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:01 (twenty years ago)

http://madison.craigslist.org/apa/137919520.html

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:05 (twenty years ago)

Lucky. Your repertoire movie scene isn't on life-support.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:06 (twenty years ago)

GOD HELP ME, CRASH IS PLAYING OAK STREET!!!

http://www.mnfilmarts.org/oakstreet/calendar.php

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:08 (twenty years ago)

I think you'd like something in the near east side/Williamson street neighborhood. It's kinda hippie, but inexpensive and close to downtown.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:09 (twenty years ago)

hm...i think i'd rather live in a building with 6 or less apts, not a big apt building. if that makes sense.

― amateurist0, Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:10 (twenty years ago)

$650 will get you plenty. Near East Side/Willie Street neighborhood is the place to be. The texture of the neighborhood is about as comfortable as imaginable. Lots of big houses converted into apartments, lots of small apartment buildings. Lots of bars patroned by grad students and real adults; very few undergrads hang out around there. Downtown and campus are both walkable when it's not too cold out. No bowling alley, though. You need a car for that. And there's no smoking anywhere in Madison.

― Bucky Bonzai, Saturday, 4 March 2006 05:04 (twenty years ago)

hm... thanks guys.

where on

― amateurist1, Saturday, 4 March 2006 05:16 (twenty years ago)

hm... thanks guys.

where on this map do i want to look???

― amateurist1, Saturday, 4 March 2006 05:17 (twenty years ago)

Areas 3 and 6, circa the Lake Monona shoreline, is where we're urging you to concentrate. The close you get to Mendota the more undergraddy.

― Bucky Bonzai, Saturday, 4 March 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

need tips on apts in madison

avoid getting an apt in minneapolis by accident

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 4 March 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Bucky OTM.

By contrast, I live in area 20, which is filled with large, soulless apartment buildings.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 4 March 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Area 10 looks terrifyingly like Idaho! (In shape, I mean -- in real life I don't think it looks anything like Idaho, although there's something weird and time-forgotten about the Hilldale Mall that is perhaps similar to certain places in Idaho. But I've never been to Idaho.)

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 4 March 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

All these "Areas" make it sound like you guys live in East Berlin or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 4 March 2006 21:08 (twenty years ago)

i hear that at the security post between areas 2 and 3, the soldiers hand out candy.

― amateurist0, Saturday, 4 March 2006 22:13 (twenty years ago)

That's no candy, that's cheese curds.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

and they're not soldiers, they're Lutherans.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 5 March 2006 00:53 (twenty years ago)

What's that Specials song, "Dawning of a New Era"? "Oh shit, this is area seven!" It's probably better to start referring to this area we're prodding you toward as what we locals call it: "The Isthmus." So, here, you want to find a place on the East Side of the Isthmus, with your northern search limit being roughly the Yahara River.

― Bucky Bonzai, Sunday, 5 March 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)

hm... one potential problem seems to be that most leases begin 8/15, while i need to move in 8/1 (as my current lease ends 7/31). who ever heard of a lease beginning in the middle of the month?

― amateurist0, Sunday, 5 March 2006 01:14 (twenty years ago)

Just spend two weeks getting there.

8/15 seems like an ideal start date for college students.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 5 March 2006 01:51 (twenty years ago)

8/15 seems like an ideal start date for college students

...whose leases end on 8/14!

― amateurist0, Sunday, 5 March 2006 01:55 (twenty years ago)

Yup, everyone has to figure out what to do for a night of homelessness.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

(the answer is drink, obv.)

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

I always have a few days of overlap. I gave myself something like ten days, this last move.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 5 March 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

well to do that i'd have to extend my current lease to 9/1, which is impossible. i suppose i'll just have to find a place where i can move in 8/1.

― amateurist0, Sunday, 5 March 2006 03:25 (twenty years ago)

i hate that noel carroll guy

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 5 March 2006 03:58 (twenty years ago)

Am, are you sure you can't pro-rate a few days? I've never had a landlord who wouldn't do that, even in New York City.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 5 March 2006 05:43 (twenty years ago)

i could pro-rate, presuming that some of these apts are vacant by 8/1...

― amateurist1, Sunday, 5 March 2006 05:59 (twenty years ago)

I don't know why I hyphenated "prorate". I am feeling old-timey.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 5 March 2006 06:02 (twenty years ago)

Amateurist, my roommate might be moving out before August, well before his lease is up on the 15th. As summer approaches I'll try to remember to check this thread out again and update you about couch crashing availability.

― Bucky Bonzai, Sunday, 5 March 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

i don't know if i can do that, only b/c i have a house full of stuff that needs to go somewhere. i bet i'll find a lease that begins 8/1.

anyway...so..questions questions questions..

what is the area around vilas park (like s. and s.w. of the meriter hospital) like? is it walkable to campus? is it undergrad-y.

how about the atwood neighborhood? near the barrymore theater? what's that like? walkable to campus? etc.

― amateurist0, Friday, 17 March 2006 11:25 (twenty years ago)

Neither of those neighborhoods are bad. My girlfriend used to live near Vilas Park and it was pretty quiet, although Regent St. can get annoying and crowded on game days. Definitely walkable to campus.

Atwood is nice (and less undergrad-y), some of my friends live over there now. Definitely an extension of the hippie-ish Williamson St. area. Not quite walkable to campus, but easily bikeable or busable.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:25 (twenty years ago)

mpls is awesome, dude, you're gonna love it!

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

dude, i know! i hear prince drives around lake menona in his purple speedboat!

― amateurist0, Friday, 17 March 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

any renting tips? leads?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 7 May 2006 06:11 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

any recommendations for good used furniture in/around madison???

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

anyone else from madison on here?

― amateurist, Sunday, 19 April 2009 06:37 (seventeen years ago)

Jordan still lives there, and so does Dimension 5ive, I think. How's it going, Am?

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Sunday, 19 April 2009 06:38 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

I'm here.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 27 July 2009 02:02 (sixteen years ago)

I'm from Madison. I go there all the time, and have close family and good friends there. I imagine I'll be driving down to Madison from Minneapolis for the rest of my life.

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 27 July 2009 04:08 (sixteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Happened to see this while in town this weekend:

Top 25 Madison pop albums according to Isthmus
http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=29785

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 12 July 2010 17:22 (fifteen years ago)

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