Welcome to La Farge
I’ve been spending a lot of time over the last two months learning about my new company, but not a lot of time learning about the town it’s in: La Farge, WI. On Friday, I walked from Organic Valley HQ down to my office on Main Street (they’re about a mile apart), which afforded me the opportunity to learn that 1) La Farge has its own post office (though it’s only open for 45 minutes on Saturdays); 2) the farthest you’d have to walk to get to a Pepsi vending machine from any given point in town is about a block and a half (and that’s just counting the ones outside); and 3) park trails are wide enough for a horse & buggy and pedestrian to pass each other comfortably (though whether they were designed that way is uncertain).
Unsatisfied with just these casual observations, I did a little Wiki research, and discovered the following facts about La Farge*:
- It’s about 1 square mile big (versus Minneapolis, which is 58.4 square miles big)
- 775 people live there, and it’s 97.3% white (whereas Chicago is 39.9% white)
- The median income for households in the village is $23,083, and the median income for a family is $33,750 (in comparison, the median HH income in the suburb I grew up in, Shoreview, MN, is $77,433, and the median income for a family is $93,413)
I still have a lot to learn, as this place is clearly very different from all the other places I have lived.
*according to the 2000 census
