Are Minneapolis suburbs RURAL? (Bloomington, Plymouth: apartments, big house, restaurants)

[yourpalincal]

My family and I are planning on moving to Minneapolis. Are the suburbs rural or more suburban, particularly these? We were interested in the following areas.
-Plymouth
-Eden Prairie
-Chanhassen
-Wayzata
-Minnetonka
-Bloomington

Are they "rural"? Please describe.

Thanks

[knke0204]

Originally Posted by yourpalincal

My family and I are planning on moving to Minneapolis. Are the suburbs rural or more suburban, particularly these? We were interested in the following areas.
-Plymouth
-Eden Prairie
-Chanhassen
-Wayzata
-Minnetonka
-Bloomington

Are they "rural"? Please describe.

Thanks

Uh... Suburban...That's why they're called 'suburbs'...

But...to answer your question..the most Urban of those is Bloomington...Bloomington is probably the most urban suburb of em all.. Chanhassen is probably the most rural, as it is the youngest, and probably has larger lots and open space...They are all very nice suburbs though.

[Clifford63]

Originally Posted by yourpalincal

My family and I are planning on moving to Minneapolis. Are the suburbs rural or more suburban, particularly these? We were interested in the following areas.
-Plymouth
-Eden Prairie
-Chanhassen
-Wayzata
-Minnetonka
-Bloomington

Are they "rural"? Please describe.

Thanks

Chanhassen is somewhat rural, but not the rest. If you can see corn growing from your kitchen window, that would be rural. If you drive past cows to get to work, that would be rural. These are all pretty much standard type suburbs with Starbucks, Barnes and Noble, Home Depot, Target, Best Buy. Bloomington and Minnetonka are have a lot large trees. Oak, Elm, Maple etc. EP is has a little less due to being a bit newer. Wayzata has shoreline on lake Minnetonka - very huge lake with very nice homes.

West of Plymouth you start getting into semi rural areas like Medina, corcaran, Maple Plain. There are some horse farms or "equestrian communities", some hobbie farms, and some people that like to have 10 acres and a big house, but they are not farmers.

Anything inside the 494/694 ring is all suburban not even close to rural. Most rural stuff is well outside the ring. Do you ever use google earth? It is very cool and might help you look at some of this stuff so you can judge it for yourself.

[DaPerpKazoo]

The far edge of Plymouth near Medina, while not considered rural, does have a few large fields. Not sure if they are actively used for farming, though.

Chanhassen still has a lot of empty space.

[kurls]

Think that would be the consensus. Not Rural.

[fashionguy]

Most of them have lots of natural grown grass lands. No farming fields.

Originally Posted by yourpalincal

My family and I are planning on moving to Minneapolis. Are the suburbs rural or more suburban, particularly these? We were interested in the following areas.
-Plymouth
-Eden Prairie
-Chanhassen
-Wayzata
-Minnetonka
-Bloomington

Are they "rural"? Please describe.

Thanks

[msdelila]

Definitely all the suburbs you listed are not rural. Lots of big houses, apartments, restaurants and shopping centers. They are beautiful, but are tiny little cities in themselves. I'm from Plymouth. I think if you go a bit further west of Wayzata you may find something a bit more rural. I think you'd have to go at least 30-40 minutes outside of the city to find something more rural.

[10,000Lakes]

Depends on where you are coming from? If your coming from a BUSY place like CA (san diego/LA) than these will seem rural...but again all depends what you think is rural? Although like the posters above pointed out, they technically are not rural, but again compared to real busy places they may seem to be.

[Alodom7]

They are all suburban, I would not consider any of those suburbs rural. You may want to check out Excelsior and Maple grove a bit more as well.

[akbound08]

none of the places listed on this page are rural. you would have to be an hour away from the twin citys before you find a town remotley rural.