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View Poll Results: What is MSP like?
Provincial, settled and not so great for newcomers 14 26.92%
A blend of provincial and transplants 35 67.31%
Very transplant oriented and great for newcomers 3 5.77%
Voters: 52. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-06-2014, 08:49 AM
 
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The worst of the winter can't be that bad, right? I'm guessing it only hits below 0 maybe a few times and that's all.
The winter is terrible.
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Old 10-06-2014, 09:01 AM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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The winter is terrible.
when I use to commute, while waiting for the oft-delayed buses, we would stack up the frozen bodies around us to block the fierce polar vortexes that hit those that were unprotected like a thousand glass needles.
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Old 10-06-2014, 09:12 AM
 
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That actually sounds great! I don't like places that are busy, stressful, fast paced or crowded like Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Dallas, etc.

I want suburbia that's comfortable enough for a single gay dude to live in. Not that I'm an obvious gay.

I also don't like places that have a dominating hipster culture, such as Portland, Austin or San Francisco. Please tell me MSP isn't like that.

Although I'm a liberal when it comes to politics, I live a conventional lifestyle (business job, house, car). And I'm more of the quiet, introverted type of person (kind of insular, I guess lol).

Sorry for all the questions. As I mentioned, I have never been to MSP. Obviously, if I get an interview, I would spend a few days there to come to my own judgments.
MN is certainly not very fast paced.
It does have some big city issues, mainly a road system designed for 1970s level traffic and a higher crime rate than you might imagine. It's easy to avoid the crime but harder to avoid the roads.
It's got enough pockets of hipsters to have decent coffee but hipsters certainly do not dominate.
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Old 10-06-2014, 09:28 AM
 
Location: The North Star State
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when I use to commute, while waiting for the oft-delayed buses, we would stack up the frozen bodies around us to block the fierce polar vortexes that hit those that were unprotected like a thousand glass needles.
The great thing about this is that Minnesota frozen bodies are usually taller and bigger than your average human, so you really can stack a lot more bodies here.
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Old 10-06-2014, 10:42 AM
 
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Thank you. I pity people who put stock in opinions like that...
I do too. Young people today seem to be confused about how to evaluate the abundance of information they have at their finger tips.
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Old 10-06-2014, 12:53 PM
 
Location: M I N N E S O T A
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That actually sounds great! I don't like places that are busy, stressful, fast paced or crowded like Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Dallas, etc.

I want suburbia that's comfortable enough for a single gay dude to live in. Not that I'm an obvious gay.

I also don't like places that have a dominating hipster culture, such as Portland, Austin or San Francisco. Please tell me MSP isn't like that.

Although I'm a liberal when it comes to politics, I live a conventional lifestyle (business job, house, car). And I'm more of the quiet, introverted type of person (kind of insular, I guess lol).

Sorry for all the questions. As I mentioned, I have never been to MSP. Obviously, if I get an interview, I would spend a few days there to come to my own judgments.
You could look in the cities as well, most Twin Cities neighborhoods aren't really that busy and stressful... Minneapolis sure is no Chicago or Boston.
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Old 10-06-2014, 02:58 PM
 
Location: Florida
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You could look in the cities as well, most Twin Cities neighborhoods aren't really that busy and stressful... Minneapolis sure is no Chicago or Boston.
That is so awesome. Although the metro is larger than I'd ideally prefer and somewhat flat, it sounds like the perfect place for me. I am 30, gay, single, professional, highly educated, liberal, four seasons and like to exercise regularly. I hope it works out.
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Old 10-06-2014, 05:33 PM
 
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That is so awesome. Although the metro is larger than I'd ideally prefer and somewhat flat, it sounds like the perfect place for me. I am 30, gay, single, professional, highly educated, liberal, four seasons and like to exercise regularly. I hope it works out.
Based on this you would definitely enjoy the Twin Cities. Quiet, check. Outdoor recreation and exercise culture, check. Slightly left of center, check. Fairly gay-friendly. Very well educated, lots of colleges and grad programs around. Very white collar workforce.

The big negatives (brutal winter and a relative lack of stunning scenery like mountains or oceans) don't sound like deal breakers.
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Old 10-06-2014, 06:04 PM
 
Location: International Falls, Minnesota
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Just be aware that Minneapolis-Saint Paul might be gay-friendly, but the gays are definitely not friendly to each other. It's a very competitive, overeducated, materialistic group of people who can't stand each other and are almost never interested in one another. Because just about all the gay guys down there look the same, dress the same, walk the same, talk the same, buy the same things, etc - there's no diversity among gay men whatsoever there. If you don't have a masters degree and work a blue collar job they treat you like you have the plague or something because everything with gay men is about money, looking like you have money and acquiring the most expensive of everything. So what happens is, guys like that end up staying there, while guys who reject those kinds of constraints leave.
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Old 10-06-2014, 07:34 PM
 
Location: M I N N E S O T A
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That is so awesome. Although the metro is larger than I'd ideally prefer and somewhat flat, it sounds like the perfect place for me. I am 30, gay, single, professional, highly educated, liberal, four seasons and like to exercise regularly. I hope it works out.
I wish you luck in finding your new home.
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