Perhaps you’re interested in starting a new business venture and looking for programs and support systems to help ensure your chances of success. A community that embraces your entrepreneurial spirit and works to develop that spirit in its younger community members can make a world of difference. Green Bay’s top CEO’s frequently make themselves available to entrepreneurs. The community offers several training and counseling programs that cover the gamut of challenges entrepreneurs face. Mentoring programs, financial assistance, and business incubators are other means that demonstrate the community’s support systems for entrepreneurs.

Did you decide to raise a family along your career path and find your current location doesn't provide the family environment you envisioned? Green Bay offers the American Dream of owning a comfortable home in a safe neighborhood with excellent schools. But what makes Green Bay stand out even more from the rest are the many kid-friendly offerings here. Kids Day offers free admissions and special events for kids at the 6-month mark from Christmas. From .25 cent rides at Bay Beach Amusement Park, the upcoming “Renewed” hands-on children’s museum, the Einstein Project for young scientists, numerous library programs, loads of parks for dogs, or skateboards, or waterslides, or frisbee golf… this community bundles a safe environment with high education standards and loads of stuff to do with the kids.

As an employer, you want to sink your roots into a community where your employees are hard-working, long-term employees. We all know how disruptive, and expensive, high turnover is, particularly if you have 50, or 100, or 500 employees who might fit into this scenario. According to Expansion Management quality of life quotients, for the employee, what is most important is not so much the salary, but what that salary will buy in terms of lifestyle. On the other hand, what is most important from the employer’s perspective is the salary. Why, then, when you’re comparing various prospective locations around the country for a future facility, would you not pick a place where your employees can afford to “live the good life,” while your company actually saves money on salary and wages? In some metros, an annual salary of $100,000 might actually buy a lower living standard than that of a person making $70,000 in a less expensive location. In this case, you get the worst of both worlds: higher wage costs and less employee satisfaction. Green Bay ranks high on the quality of life quotient because it offers so much more for the dollar in quality of life than the majority of other locales.