Jake Via, who has lived everywhere from Fortaleza, Brazil, and Seattle to Sun Valley, Idaho, and Austin, calls Milwaukee “the greatest city on earth.” And he’s serious.
When Via and his wife Anabel planned to relocate from Salt Lake City in 2021, they made an extensive list of cities, and they are grateful that they ended up in Milwaukee instead of other places they considered like Charlotte, N.C.; Pittsburgh; or Phoenix, where his parents live.
One reason is that Via says his “climate anxiety” has been growing while he’s lived in the American West, in cities running out of water and whose air is frequently polluted by wildfire smoke or smog. When an earthquake struck Salt Lake City in March 2020, Via and his wife, who grew up in Mexico
