Baxter Lomax praises Janesville, Wisconsin as a drinking area

Baxter Lomax
   Janesville Wisconsin has a very nice downtown with old buildings and the likes which makes walking an enjoyable experience. The town has plenty of bar hopping opportunities and unlike Chicagoland there is not a single high end Italian or other chain restaurant in the downtown region as the forces of neo-liberalism and corrupt restaurant industrialization has not making its way in to this city, This is pretty much what makes Wisconsin cool place as there are not hundreds of corporate cookie cutting strip mall offerings making it difficult to remember what town you visited. As I visited this town and plan on returning often to watch my beloved Green Bay Packers.

 I really think village leaders get it by trying to avoid their picturesque downtown being dominated with a SubWay on this corner and a Walgreens on this. There is none of this in Janesville and the only businesses I saw were bars and some hair cutting places. It appears many of the old buildings are office or residential not being converted to high end expensive restaurants or other nonsense to attract only a small segment downtown. All of your rare suburban downtowns in Chicago's and Indianapolis's suburbs are pretty much expensive eateries and in Chicago's case I have noticed many of them are Italian even though these areas are not so dominated by this ethnic demographic. I will write more on this later here at the Right Bull blog but for now I highly recommend this town as perhaps coolest drinking town in America especially if you are in your twenties. I didn't see an old fogie over thirty the night I went to some of these bars and they have a diverse selection of bar types most of them being small. The likelihood to why Wisconsin towns have so many family runned bars still in original construction many often being houses likely has to do with the lack of corruption and the quid quo pro that occurs so much in other suburbia of large American cities like Chicago whose constant remodeling and construction practices are meant to supply capital and power to certain families. Chicago's suburbs are run by Italians into homebuilding and who have made their wealth from continuing waste and rebuild when none of it was necessary and this crony capitalism arrangements  has more to do with debt problems of government than spending on poor or food stamps