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Article: West Bend entices urban workers Small-town feeling provides a family atmosphere

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February 9, 1997
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Despite the bustling traffic and gantlet of fast-food joints and strip malls that greet those entering the city, West Bend offers a serene and friendly, suburban lifestyle, one that's proving more attractive to workers from Milwaukee.

"I'm a hometown person and I wouldn't leave West Bend. A great deal of families are moving to West Bend to have the comforts of a city, but also to have the peacefulness of the country life found in the subdivisions," said Darlene Kremer of Hometown Realty, who grew up in the Town of Barton.

Kremer began her real estate career 25 years ago and opened Hometown Realty in December 1995. Most of the buyers coming to West Bend are from Milwaukee, she said. ...

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