[driftless2]

I should add that if you walk around La Crosse or the surrounding area, you will not see emaciated wretches standing on street corners begging for scraps of food. You will most likely see the opposite of emaciated.

(There are, of course, the "will work for food" types. The last one I saw was standing at an intersection next to a fast food place that was advertising for help.)

[Bigg Red]

I have actually been to your town. It was around 2008. My youngest son and his wife lived there for a few years, and we went out once to visit. It was a very nice town from what we could see.