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Thanks planning to use your advice for visiting

I live in Minnesota. Minnesota people will try to sugarcoat their speech and try to avoid conflict. They are quite private and indirect. South Dakota people are more upfront and will show their anger quicker.

As a school bus driver I've come to abhor people inappropriately yielding the right of way they're supposed to take. It causes unpredictability among all other drivers in the situation. If you have the right of way and everyone else seems to be doing the right thing, take it gosh darn it! Trying to be nice to a school bus just creates an uncomfortable situation for us.

MN drivers hesitate to no end. I moved here from Wisconsin. Rest is pretty much spot on. The goodbyes drive me nuts as well.

so if i take the last piece will i be talked about after my 45 min goodbye? haha kidding

Ive lived in minnesota my whole life and ive only ever met in person 1 person that has the steriotypical minnesotan accent.

i mean you missed having an evil communist government but yeah these are accurate

Wisconsin is similer if your house in revokeable trust

Just watch out for ones from Duluth there more weird, (especially those ppl in wi across the bay .... opps I one of those forget that )

I moved to Minnesota a while ago with my family, I'm not the most social person (autism and trauma with interacting with people, nor know anywhere people my age hang out) so this is pretty helpful

So many of these are similar in Michigan!

Except for the Grey duck thing, which I will still say is ente ente ganz (German), this is exactly Wisconsin. No difference. I grew up in Wisconsin and been to MN countless times. Moving there soon in fact.

People in California and Florida be like "I just don't like the cold." I be like "do you have jackets that protect you from earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes and alligators?"

grew up in mn left for twenty years. lived in NY and China and now im back in mn. Northern MN is very nice. As a generality my experience is that people here are pleasant but private, communication style is often indirect and conversation kept light.

The pop thing, think of it like this, it comes from the word "soda pop". In soda pop, soda is an adjective and pop the noun. Just like soda water. Soda just means carbonated. What would you call this liquid if frozen on a stick? A sodasicle? No, it's a popsicle.

The alarms at both my houses go off in town every single day!

You’re making us look bad…..😬

I have no shame in taking the last piece. I love that my fellow Minnesotans will leave me that 1/64 of a donut.

Hi 'der den--- I graduated at Anoka Sr.High and I listened to KQRS

Minnesota is the rudest place I’ve ever lived the place sucks

SRSLY? Hesitating at a 4-way stop? Monthly tornado alarm? We have that in Indiana as well. Doesn't like, most of the country have that or at least all of the midwest?? Also, loads of places refer to soft drinks as "pop". That is neither weird nor unusual. These things are all very common throughout the United States, and probably lots of other countries for that matter.

Wow you guys are super polite. I don’t think I’m a rude person, but idk if I could handle a 2 hour goodbye or indecisive stoppers 😭😭😭

I say “ope” daily

Why is her accent thicker than mine. I've been here my whole life. I do see the o's but typically people don't have that thick of an accent unless they're from more up North and typically it's just a white people thing but not always

Any kid that grew up in Minnesota hated the goodbyes. You have to stand awkwardly for eternity waiting for you parents to wrap up a 5 hour conversation. And it isn’t just at someone else’s home. Grocery store, after big events, restaurant parking lots, you name it

I wish all cities could be as affordable as Minneapolis!

I like how you deleted the comments that didn’t align with your political views. Maybe just don’t respond next time instead of asking questions and getting responses you don’t like.

Good information, especially for a person like myself who is coming from Arizona.

The accent rarely happens! Ope is a thing but not much past that… the rest of this list is spot on!

WAIT THEY DONT DO THE MONTHLY ALARM IN OTHER STATES??

Almost 6 years here. It's very hard to make friends and I don't want to make friends with people at work. (Corporate America is weird) I would never have imagined my life being anxious about that. I'm from South America, and I lived in Buenos Aires for 10 years, where most of the people are open, social and straightforward. Here I had to learn how to act and what to say but at the same time I don't want to change those things because I feel that's my real essence. Anyway, maybe someday I'll try meetup to get more used to to people again, otherwise I will end moving somewhere. Thanks for your tips!

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Nice to learn more about the state I moved to 20 years ago.

A lot of these behaviors are shared by Michiganders too - especially the "ope" and "scootch past ya".

Such great advice! I am moving to Minneapolis in January and I've heard not so great stories about making friends there lol

I love that you said most Minnesotans don't have an accent like in Fargo, yet you definitely at least halfway do. 🤣😂🤣

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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!!

Ask for a pop if you want the whole thing. Otherwise you’re just going to get a mini soda.

George Floyd got the other kind of goodbye...

I lived here for 4 years and I feel the only way to make friends here for me is to hangout with transplants or Minnesotans from a town a few hours away that I never heard of. It’s mostly people in the cities that are more cold in my experience.

Lived in the state for many years and I never heard anybody ever say "you betcha". Uff Da is use by some when they try and be funny like talking like the rest of the country think we talk. Not all that many tornados and there are not any monthly alarms or whatever. There are a lot of fortune 500 companies in the state and thus people are not timid small town hicks in the business world.

Grey duck is the correct way to play and goose is the wrong way and I'll never hear anyone out on that. They're wrong and should either wallow in shame or fix their words.

I'm from MN and left for the Army. I didn't realize just how stuffy the culture was until I traveled around a bit and went back. My entire family had pretty much disowned me but didn't say it. They just treated me like I simply didn't exist, but would still try in a passive aggressive way to pretend they wanted me around, but would make little quips, actions, and snide comments to show I was not welcome. 😂 Weird ass culture with really awkward tense vibes. Not for me at all. I left and never went back

The driving thing is the worst for me, luckily we don't have to have much of the rest of that down in the La Crescent/La Crosse area. I detest the goodbye though, I get out within 5 minutes because I figured out early on at family gatherings that "we're leaving" means I have 45 minutes

One thing i think most of us agree on from MN is that we hate the MN goodbye. Let's get rid of it once and for all!

Very accurate. One thing to add though, we play the correct version of duck duck grey duck. It's the direct translation to the original name of the game.

Not every Minnesotan will agree with me but, people are so nice on the highway here compared to other places I've lived.

😂 I’m from Minnesota, love this! But I say soda now, I know as kid I said pop and while visiting my aunt in Massachusetts she was quite confused when I asked for a pop. Didn’t know we’re only place that does the beer back.