Minnesota: Unfriendly, with lots of bad drivers. (Minneapolis, Excelsior: environment, jobs)

[poofie]

Originally Posted by kuan

There are for sure more Pamida stores than Walmarts in outstate MN.

Do not call us OUTSTATE MN!!! We live in GREATER MN!!! The Twin Cities are just a small part of our great state!!

[mgbsecteacher]

I was born and raised here and Minneapolis has the most unfriendliest people in the United States. This stems from the Nordic-Scandinavian-Germanic ancestry of the people who live here. I have known people all my life and they have never invited me to their homes while I hav invited them many times.
Not only are they unfriendly but also rude and uncaring, mean and vicious.
My family has gone to the same church for decades and not one person came to see her in her last days of cancer except the priest.
There are alot of men-haters here also. The woman just can't stand the men and make your life miserable for you. If you are also single, this adds to their contempt.
St. Paul is a little more friendlier.
And all of you are right. We do have awful drivers here. When the snow first falls, they all act as if they have never driven on it before.
There people are mean, uncaring and unfriendly.

[pirate_lafitte]

Originally Posted by mgbsecteacher

I was born and raised here and Minneapolis has the most unfriendliest people in the United States. This stems from the Nordic-Scandinavian-Germanic ancestry of the people who live here. I have known people all my life and they have never invited me to their homes while I hav invited them many times.
Not only are they unfriendly but also rude and uncaring, mean and vicious.
My family has gone to the same church for decades and not one person came to see her in her last days of cancer except the priest.
There are alot of men-haters here also. The woman just can't stand the men and make your life miserable for you. If you are also single, this adds to their contempt.
St. Paul is a little more friendlier.
And all of you are right. We do have awful drivers here. When the snow first falls, they all act as if they have never driven on it before.
There people are mean, uncaring and unfriendly.

Sounds like alot of other places.

[moving123456]

Originally Posted by mgbsecteacher

I was born and raised here and Minneapolis has the most unfriendliest people in the United States. This stems from the Nordic-Scandinavian-Germanic ancestry of the people who live here. I have known people all my life and they have never invited me to their homes while I hav invited them many times.
Not only are they unfriendly but also rude and uncaring, mean and vicious.
My family has gone to the same church for decades and not one person came to see her in her last days of cancer except the priest.
There are alot of men-haters here also. The woman just can't stand the men and make your life miserable for you. If you are also single, this adds to their contempt.
St. Paul is a little more friendlier.
And all of you are right. We do have awful drivers here. When the snow first falls, they all act as if they have never driven on it before.
There people are mean, uncaring and unfriendly.

I can see why nobody invites you to their home with an attitude like that.

[Kingsnkali]

Actually, the poster is spot on about the Minneapolis man-haters. The town is loaded with them. Bitter, unfriendly and hostile. Big ax's to grind. You would never even think of holding a door for them even in a blizzard. They might think you were trying to hit on them or even worse - you were a Republican.

"A WOMAN NEEDS A MAN LIKE A FISH NEEDS A BICYCLE"

[babz12]

Yeah, Minnesota sucks. I've lived here all my life and it's getting pretty old, especially the long, cold winters. I'm planning on sticking it out a few more years until I get comfortable living on my own before I move across the country, away from my family.

I used to like the winter as a kid because playing in the snow was fun, but I've outgrown that. The only enjoyable thing to do in the winter here is play hockey, but I can find so many other things to do when it's warm.

I do love summer here (when it's not raining); I love all the lakes we have because I'm obsessed with wakeboarding. Mosquitoes aren't that bad...at least for some people, like me. I spend a lot of time outdoors but I don't seem to get bitten too much anymore, not like when I was a kid. The mosquitoes in the Everglades are much worse.

Now the whole "nice" thing? I don't find the people here to be any worse or better than other states, and I've been most everywhere except the southern states. I could just be oblivious to every one around me though.

And I've lived in the suburbs of both Minneapolis and St. Paul, went to school in Winona, and now live in downtown St. Paul, and I've rarely seen any Walmarts except in Winona. I recently had to research where one was anywhere near me because I wanted to buy a movie at 3 am...

[ozzie679]

Originally Posted by babz12

And I've lived in the suburbs of both Minneapolis and St. Paul, went to school in Winona, and now live in downtown St. Paul, and I've rarely seen any Walmarts except in Winona. I recently had to research where one was anywhere near me because I wanted to buy a movie at 3 am...

The cities have done a good job in keeping Walmart at bay.

It's a good thing....

[roneb]

Originally Posted by babz12

Yeah, Minnesota sucks. I've lived here all my life and it's getting pretty old, especially the long, cold winters. I'm planning on sticking it out a few more years until I get comfortable living on my own before I move across the country, away from my family.

I used to like the winter as a kid because playing in the snow was fun, but I've outgrown that. The only enjoyable thing to do in the winter here is play hockey, but I can find so many other things to do when it's warm.

1) To say someplace sucks is a pretty strong statement and doesn't jibe with the positives you list after that.

2) You may find proximity to family to be more valuable than you think once you're away from them.

3) It's a shame that you've outgrown playing in the snow. As a middle-aged individual living someplace where it rarely snows, I miss it tremendously. There is A LOT more to do in the winter than play hockey! Get out more and enjoy it!

[northbound74]

I've lived in six states, in three different regions of the country, and the funny thing is, after reading through all of these posts, I realize that you have all described attributes of each place, both good and bad. Quirky cultural differences aside, I've found that human nature is very similar wherever I've been to.
Every place has nice people.
Every place has rude people.
Good drivers, bad drivers... they all have it all.
I know that some traits are more pronounced in some areas over others. For example, in upstate New York, they have a strange habit of flashing their lights to let you know you're in their way of the fastlane. Only place I've seen that. Usually, someone flashing their lights means that you had better scrunch down in your seat, so you don't get shot. These people didn't seem to mean any ill will about it.

Memphis drivers are just downright bad. No other way to explain it. Little Rock drivers never seem to be in a hurry (this from someone who rarely goes over the speed limit), and have an annoying habit of slowing down considerably about a half mile before their exit off the freeway. I've never been somewhere that didn't have bad drivers, nor have I been somewhere that didn't have good ones.

People in the south are said to be more outspoken about religion, but they aren't necessarily the most religious. In all my years of living there, I never encountered a traffic jam on Sunday morning. In fact, in Arkansas, I'd say a fair majority of people don't attend church regularly, yet they're lumped in with the so-called "red state", Bible-thumping crowd.

I hope to visit Minnesota for the first time soon, so I don't know what Minnesota Nice is. I hope it's not like Southern Hospitality, which in my opinion, is nothing more than a cheap marketing ploy. People there aren't any more hospitable than anywhere else. Honest.

Originally Posted by Bongopercylou

*sigh* More mass generalizations.
Maybe move to a red state where you can experience the joy of really low taxes and even lower quality of living.... Somewhere when "howdy" means something and the quality of school districts don't. Somewhere there isn't much attention paid to litter in the streets and is perpetually brown and dusty...nothing "green" outside to water. Somewhere the average life span is 65 years. Somewhere you can really enrich your life with goods from WalMart and work there at the same time.

I realize this was posted a while back but I couldn't let it slide.
What they said about some "red states" may or may not be true, well... actually those things could also apply to many "blue" states, as well.
Again with Arkansas, it is supposedly a red state, but I bet that most people outside of that state's region probably don't know that Democrats control 90% of the legislature, and you can count on one hand the number of Republican governors they've had since the Civil War. It spawned Bill Clinton. It consistently has one of the highest tax burdens of any state, and, to the chagrin of border-line socialists, it historically has had a horrible education system and questionable social services. Maybe those type of things have more to do with culture than with government.
Oh yeah, liberal Kansas City and St. Louis are pathetically filthy when compared to the surrounding conservative countryside... and also conservative Springfield. Still yet, I'd say that it's a cultural issue, not a political one.

[Hunter Wold]

Try driving around Seattle for while...it is the pit's..very rude, etc.

After living in many areas the folks around Alex, MN are Very very nice.
Might move back up there.....snow here, snow there, cold here, cold there,.....nice folks there, not nice here.

Trade off's.

HW