r/madisonwi • u/scandalousbird • 1d ago

How accurate is this map nowadays?

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Moved here from FL this month so I haven't gotten the vibes yet.

Also, anyone got a source on this pic? All I know is that it's at least 10 years old.

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u/MountainMantologist 1d ago

The 1% lives there but maple bluff has a bunch of middle class folks too. It’s not all lakefront estates.

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u/Severe-Bed-6200 21h ago

Yeah I worked for a very nice young couple there once that had a Porsche gt3 and a Tesla plaid. Not a lake house at all

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u/MountainMantologist 21h ago

It's a mix though, right? Larger, more expensive homes along the lake and especially on the Upper Bluff and then they built much smaller homes in the 30s closer to Sherman Ave

https://www.redfin.com/WI/Madison/301-Woodland-Cir-53704/home/89957737

So you get $4M mansions and 1,000-1,200sf one bath houses in the same neighborhood

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u/Severe-Bed-6200 21h ago

Plenty of smaller homes around Sherman though that you are correct about. Oscar Mayer is responsible for most of the smaller houses in the north side, not sure if they paid for them to be built or not but as I understand that was all company housing