Have lived in WI for about 12 years now.
Winters are very fucking brutal. They just last so goddamn long, and you can literally go without seeing the sun for weeks it seems. It was a big adjustment when I moved here, the winters can really take a toll psychologically.
There’s great food out here. Madison for example is only a city of only 250,000 people but has an insane number of fantastic restaurants. I like the trust and old fashioned ways out here though—like in the summer, the sweet corn is amazing, and we buy ours from a vegetable stand run by people who grow the corn in their garden. They leave a coin box out there and you can buy the corn on the honor system lol.
Summers are beautiful.