What kind of a region do you want to live in? What does your ideal community look like? What’s your vision for southeastern Wisconsin? What are you willing to do to make that vision happen?

These questions were the basis for in-depth interviews with 600 citizens of the seven counties in southeastern Wisconsin. What emerged is a collective vision that focuses on unity, commonality and consensus in a region usually portrayed as deeply divided. It describes what most citizens want for themselves and their families – whether they live in Milwaukee or Pewaukee, Oconomowoc Lake or Lake Geneva, Kewaskum or Kenosha. It also says what people don’t want. For the most part, they don’t want to be like Boston, Paris, Las Vegas, Toronto – or any other region.