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I live in the Seattle area and I have read a lot about Minneapolis-St Paul (MSP) area, but I have never been to MSP. However, I have heard that MSP is even better than Seattle.
What is everyone's opinion on this, and why do you think one area is or isn't better than the other?
Depends on how one defines "better". Seattle is much more expensive, but has milder weather than MSP. MSP is less transient, but Seattle probably has a slightly stronger economy. Seattle has a downtown waterfront and nearby mountains, but MSP is surrounded by lakes and has tons of lakes within it's metro. Seattle has a slightly more dense urban core, but much worse traffic than MSP. Both cities have lively, vibrant, walkable downtowns with nice skylines.
Both are great cities/metros in their own right. Roughly the same size, and a few similarities vibe-wise. Obviously Seattle is West coast and MSP is Midwest, but they both have a somewhat similar feel. I love both cities/metros. Two of my favorites in the U.S. Hard to say which is better than the other.
No, people here look up to Seattle as a more bigger, more important and iconic city. you hear a lot of people who dreams of visiting Seattle and people who want to move their after they graduate college.
i doubt you hear as many people from Seattle wanting to visit or live in Minneapolis.
No, people here look up to Seattle as a more bigger, more important and iconic city. you hear a lot of people who dreams of visiting Seattle and people who want to move their after they graduate college.
i doubt you hear as many people from Seattle wanting to visit or live in Minneapolis.
No, people here look up to Seattle as a more bigger, more important and iconic city. you hear a lot of people who dreams of visiting Seattle and people who want to move their after they graduate college.
i doubt you hear as many people from Seattle wanting to visit or live in Minneapolis.
Wrong. People in the Twin Cities generally think of Seattle as a peer city.
I have never been to either one. But, my perception is that they are, currently, more or less in the same tier, but with Seattle comfortably ahead. They both have reputations as clean, well kept, progressive cites, that never suffered the declines of the rust belt cities.
However, Seattle is rising faster and gradually pulling away from Minneapolis. Urban development in Minneapolis is steady as she goes, while Seattle is growing like gangbusters. Additionally, Seattle seems to have the repuation for having the most vibrant urban core outside the 6 or 7 most urban cities (NYC,CHI,SF,PHILLY,BOS,DC, and maybe LA), with a top 6 downtown. Seattle appears to be headed for a SF/BOS-lite costal elitist city status, while Minneapolis appears to be holding steady on the national scale.
I've been to both, and just really, really, love Seattle. We took the Victoria Clipper up to Victoria, and then a ferry over to Vancouver. There's just more to do in Seattle, and downtown was teeming with pedestrians...not something you see in Minneapolis.
Wrong. People in the Twin Cities generally think of Seattle as a peer city.
Minneapolis elitist do, not the majority of the people in the metro however.
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