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Saying the zoo is in Burnsville shows carelessness.

I love Hopkins.

This guy has NOT lived in Minneapolis area, lived here 35+ yrs and he has no clue on some of these suburbs! Get your facts straight before you put them on line dude

Oh BS. I love it here.

now I see Minnesota moving to the North Carolina and South Carolina now

Minnesota Fake

I have been visiting the Twin Cities since 2005 to see my brother. Crime and safety are bigger concerns today. Woke policies have had an effect.

I live in Edina and felt attacked lmao! Moved here in 2021 and never leaving unless I get married then get a house in wayzata. Or maybe I stay in Edina. HOWEVER, I don’t notice the snobby people you speak of! And I don’t think I’m snobby 🥲 we also do have some nice restaurants at the galleria and then also 50th and France!

No chaska??

On crime this guy isn't being honest.

Homelessnrss is a drug issue and has nothing to do with housing costs.

Crime has gotten really bad in the last 5 years probably the worst in the US.

Ice fishing is really just drinking in a small hut on a lake.

He's lying we get a ton of snow. It's the reason snowblowers were invented here.

Taxes are the worst in the US.

We Minnesotans have an icy shell, once you break through the shell, it may take a while, but there's a warm friendly center.

Minneapolis has an effective sales tax of 9% now, iirc

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Lived in maple grove for 4-5 years and we liked it. Left in 2022 as Brooklyn park crime was starting to bleed over. Also they don’t have much to choose from for new housing. It was great for the proximity to up north but 94 was often backed up on fridays. If we can make a return back to the state we will live much further out ie Chanhassen and that general area.

Global warming is false and the public schools in Minnesota are terrible. How do I know because I live in Minnesota and have 2 kids in the school system.

I have lived in several places across the country, across the globe. Minnesota is not perfect, but it is the best state to live, grow, and work. (Except Minneapolis-it needs a serious mayor and a make over)

insular, frankly hicks by history, low culture by standards of even Chicago and food is pretty bad, nowhere near Chicago quality- all terrible. And what is the hating on Wisconsin and Iowa? A prairie home companion is part of the states roots- a bit higher quality? There's a snootiness that has no basis in reality but they think it's true. Winters are really bad- coldest major metro in the country No real public transit. on and on

I grew up in the Twin Cities, I left 20 years ago and just moved back. The cities have degenerated and quite frankly is clearly past its peak. I moved to Edina, supposedly a nice area. The second week of school, the schools were closed because of a gun in the high school. A week before I moved to Minnesota, southdale mall has a gun shooting. By the way, the malls looks like crap and are completely dead. The mall of America, once a lively energetic place now is full of Minnesota tourist stores and there’s a bag check / TSA at all the entrances. The twin cities has clearly been good for 1 group of people, and that’s Somalian.

Too many Somalis

as for the making friends part, ive lived here my whole life and once i lost my highschool friends its became almost impossible to meet new genuine people. everyone hides behind minndsota nice and it can be a struggle to actually get to know people. lots of people come off as fake.

They don’t call us the land of 10,000 taxes for nothing

Born and raised in Minnesota and currently reside still in Minnesota. I was engaged in a conversation just yesterday and one of the people was a woman that moved in here from Illinois and someone else from Washington state and your number one point that’s exactly what they said word for word that we are kind of stuck up hard to make friends here hard to penetrate a group, very superficial and I was somewhat surprised at what they said

Notice he didn't mention there is no tax on food and clothes.

I call the social and cultural challenges"Minnesota ICE" 😀😀 get it?! Originally from Kentucky, then lived in Los Angeles for 10 years. I've never had social challenges like I've experienced here in Minnesota. You definitely have to be a joiner and find the other transplants. Half my new friends are from NY or CA 😅

As a MN person near the hub I am not sure the Minnesota nice thing is that much of a thing more then anywhere else of better parts of USA. Allot of minnesota Compared to NYC, Chicago and worst parts of CA west coast, yes but twin cities themselves have all the worse aspects of those areas and now a trend setter instead of a follower including crime decriminalization and likelihood or literal race riots (one famous one spread around USA and world) .

I sure as well wouldn't buy a house from you

The inner city chicago transplants have been ruining the twin cities for decades now. If they could all be sent back it would be much better.

I don't regret moving here - the city I moved here from was worse! I met my wife here. I love the state parks and the general hiking and outdoors opportunities. But I've made zero friends in over a decade who aren't fellow transplants. If you're not from here and can't help someone get ahead professionally it doesn't matter how pleasant or charming you are - you'll never be more than a distant acquaintance to them. The people here are passive aggressive or just phoney MN Nice.

move here if you want monotonous suburban hell to suck the soul from your body.

It's been a somewhat okay experience living in Minneapolis/Brooklyn Park area. Unfortunately, I what I have experienced as a Hispanic American person is discrimination from black Americans individuals. Additionally, I have spoken with some of the the Latinos that I have encountered and they too have experienced discrimination from the black people. That breaks my heart that we Latinos have to experienced this Behavioral!!

Buh bye

I’ve lived here for 50 years. YES, violent crime is up significantly since the 2020 riots. Who is responsible? Walz, Keith Ellison, “Bloody” Mary Moriarty, the mayors, City Council… It’s misleading to tell people that it’s “fear mongering” and “sensationalism” to talk about this fact when actually, you are gaslighting people. Things were very different here just 10 years ago, and in the early 2000’s, it truly was a different place altogether. 1) crime in both of the Twin Cities have failed to be properly reported on by our local media, and therefore failed to do their jobs. Instead, they’d rather have stories about how cool the lakes & bike paths are. See? No crime here! Everything is fine! 2) the crime here just simply isn’t being reported by victims, and additionally, by the police themselves. Why? Because the police no longer respond to everything that gets called in. There isn’t enough staff to take all of the calls, and if you do happen to call in a report to the black hole known as “311”, it likely isn’t getting properly documented, and because of this the crime stats aren’t real, and crime most certainly isn’t “down”. 2) the “gentrifiers” as some of us call them, do their very best to pretend that “Nothing is wrong whatsoever! Everything is fine! Please, stop being negative and just stop talking about all of these uncomfortable truths! Oh and by the way, here’s a bag of Pollyanna, don’t smoke it all at once!” and they get particularly irritated when you call out the BS they love to post on X: “Oh! Look at me! I’m riding my bike, here, there, wherever! And guess what?! The city ISN’T burning, and I DIDN’T get shot!” And then they post either a pic of them riding down the new Bryant Ave bike path. Wow. Congrats. You rode your bike down a path that CARS rarely drive down, much less all the rampant carjackers. OR they’ll post cringy comments with a sunset pic over Lake Calhoun (😉). Follow @CrimeWatchMpls and @MN_CRIME and also @AlphaNewsMN on X, because those accounts do their best to report what is actually going on here.

In no specific order we left because 1. Public schools being infiltrated with LGBTQA policies. 2. Crime bleeding out into the suburbs 3. Not being able to adequately protect your family if your are burglarized. 4. Police hate 5. Draconian measures on healthcare etc.

It’s not just The Twin Cities that are Blue when it comes to voting. Areas in Greater Minnesota around Moorhead, Mankato, Rochester, and Duluth also lean or vote Blue as well.

Minneapolis is in ruins,, having been burned down due to the ineffective leadership of governor Walz. Public schools are a disaster. Woke has taken over. DEI is paralyzing everything. Cost of living is crazy high.. Insurance on anything has doubled or more. I live in St. Paul. Crime is very high. Minneapolis is called Murderapolis. I do not recommend anyone moving here. Sorry, sad but true.😞 😮

Bad video. That Minnesota nice thing is so overblown and inaccurate it is a joke.. The homeless topic is not true in that there is a very tiny homeless area which is in an area nobody really want to visit or drive through. 99.6 % of the metro does not have homeless. It is a worse problem in other major cities, same is true about crime. There can be traffic and is not nearly as bad other major cities. The Canadian wildfire topic is a joke, there was a few days in 2023 where is looked cloudy which were wildfires, and it was really in the very northern part of the state. It is not an annual or even a once a decade event. I doubt they ever canceled an event because of it. The sky looked cloudy and other than that it had not noticeable.

cost of living here is definitely in the top 5 worst.

I moved to Minnesota in 2017 and here are my takeaways: 1. Minnesota nice = don’t notice me. Ppl want to be left alone & do not tolerate unnecessary small talk. In other places, random convos w/ strangers at bars, grocery stores, restaurants, etc. is common. In Minnesota, you will be ignored if you try to initiate small talk. 2. Beer drinking = pilsners & blonde lagers. In Illinois, for example, getting a Coors Light at a bar would invite ridicule from friends. In Minnesota, it’s normal. 3. Sports fans are very apathetic. In Minnesota, no one really talks negatively about the players in an aggressive manner. If a QB throws a bad game, they’ll say “it is what it is.” In Chicago, calls for a public hanging because of 1 interception is common. 4. The absence of “white trash.” Anywhere you go, there is a clear presence of lower class white ppl. You can tell who’s “middle class” and “lower class” just by looking at them. You don’t really get that in Minnesota. 5. Everyone is either German, Swedish, Norwegian, or Finnish - barely anyone has Polish, Irish, Italian, or Greek ancestry. I don’t think ppl outside of Minnesota realize how weird it is that literally no one has Irish ancestry. 6. Horrible food diversity. There are towns where there is literally nothing but bar and grills or fast food. Italian, Mexican, etc. are only luxuries for the suburbs/cities.

If you don’t want to work and live off the government. This is the place for you.

Woke government! Tyrannical DNR. 0 representation from corrupt politicians

It's not "homelessness." It's drug addiction. They live in "homeless camps" because they don't have to go far to meet their drug dealer throughout the day. Replace "homeless camp" with "Open Air Drug Scene," and you'll have it right.

We don't have "taxes on everything" there is no tax on clothing or groceries

As a life long resident. Mn as crashed hard. 2008 was a great time been very down hill sence then.

You forgot reason #11. The part-time Minnesotans. The ones that come to clog golf courses and lakes in the summer, only to come back next summer to be in the way, again, and complain about how Minneapolis is a hell-on-earth. Keep your ass in Florida or Texas or wherever it is that you can't stand to be for the whole year. Own two houses? Pick one and free up a unit for people who want to be wherever you don't.

Love Minnesota came here from Wisconsin!