#MKEPride

While having pride in who and what you are - and how to gain that pride - is the main focus of Greater Milwaukee Men, the other piece of the puzzle is pride in where you are, and since we are talking about Milwaukee, we focus on everything good about the Greater Milwaukee Area: the city, county, and surrounding area.

This shot shows some of the best parts of MKE -
our downtown, the arts, and the lake

You will see many posts here about the great things in Milwaukee, because Milwaukee needs it. Milwaukee is not only underestimated by everyone else, but even Milwaukeeans themselves. In recent years, however, the word has been getting out about the well-kept secret that is Milwaukee. We are getting awards and showing up on many lists of the top communities for various cultural assets. Most of these things make Milwaukee a great place for men, as we talked about in our Milwaukee: Mecca For The Modern Man story.

As we hear of these achievements by our home, we will compile them all here so that everyone can see how great Milwaukee is. Here are the lists that Milwaukee has made:

• Bay View neighborhood in top 16 Best Drinking Neighborhoods
• NY Posts's 5 Reasons Milwaukee is the Buzziest City in the Midwest
• Top 10 Cities For Urban Forests
• 10 Coolest Cities in the Midwest
• Top 12 ArtPlaces
• Top 10 American Downtowns
• The 10 Best Cities to Find a Job
• America's 50 Best Bike Cities
• Cooking Light: Best Cities
• Forbes 15 Emerging Downtowns
• Named The Capital of Water by Forbes 
• Milwaukee's Clock Shadow Building Wins National Top Ten Green Award
• 7th of 10 Most Exciting Cities by Movoto real estate blog 
• Brainiest Large Metro (over 1 million people)
• Where Millenials Can Make It Now
• Good Food Awards 7 total winners 
• Food & Wine's Best Bars In America 2 of 40 from MKE plus 1 Madison bar
• #3 city and #8 state for volunteerism and charity
• 2014 Top Family Destination
• 3 of 28 Midwest bars Draft Magazines 100 Best Beer Bars (2103)
• Jet Setter Where To Go In 2014
• Two of the top 20 in The Daily Meal's Top 50 Best Coffee Houses

It is all well and good for other people to think well of us, but we need Milwaukeeans to shout out our love for the city as well, here are the words of those who have done so:

• Bill Davidson's Love Letter to Milwaukee

If you know of one we missed please let us know in the comments and we will add it.