>So not sure how much of this hyperbolic reply to even take issue with, but it sounds like you've had a really rough go of it in WI. Sorry.
Maybe he just wants to phrase things in a manner that doesn't get him new neighbors who are "fleeing" MN or CA or whatever.
Nobody is fleeing Minnesota for Wisconsin, trust me. Electricians earn $15 an hour less in western WI than they do in Minnesota, and most jobs have similar pay cuts for crossing a river into WI from MN.
As someone who grew up in MN this sounds like something we would write to put down WI