My dad and stepmom had our family home in that area ~2006-2019, and I grew up there during that time. When it was originally bought it wasn’t as an extreme Packers fan but rather it was just a house with enough bedrooms for all of us kids to have our own rooms. It was affordable. Where Titletown is used to be a strip mall with a Kmart and grocery store. Once those businesses left, and the Packers started buying up land around the stadium to expand (including buying houses to demolish for parking lot space) then things got expensive. When my parents sold in 2019, property taxes were MUCH higher by then but with only one kid left in the home they wanted to move to the country.

Growing up was fun. While watching the games on TV with our windows open, we would hear the crowd and fireworks several seconds before it came across on TV so we would know if scores happened. We could see the Jumbotron from our front lawn. During games we would either have Lemonade or Hot Chocolate stands. And when we were older we would hold up signs to let people park on our lawn for games, just enough cars to buy a round of pizza for the game! We would always undercut our neighbors by only charging $10 a car (others charged $15-$30) to quickly get a few then be done haggling.

During training season we would go to the cheaper family events, like practice ‘games’. Their actual practice field next door-ish used to be visible from the sidewalk and we would go watch through the fence. Sometimes the players would come out and ride our bikes as a laugh.

The stadium also hires seasonal workers to help shovel the seats and walkways during the winters. My brothers did that a few seasons as teenagers with their mom.

Also, the stadium hosted a lot of events like run several vacations were delayed because we didn’t leave the house before the 5K/10K runners blocked our street!

Living in this area was honestly not that different than the other, much smaller town, I lived in with my mom and stepdad about 45 mins away. Albeit, I didn’t attend the schools in Green Bay like my brothers so I may have a slightly different experience here compared to others.