How Do You Like Living In Minnesota? (Duluth, Rochester: school, college)

[courtney Lee]

i love i falls it dosent have many jobs are are lots of schools that are really good tho!

[Targen]

After living in Minnesota for 14 years, I can honestly say that if you love grey skies during the winter months, negative 24 degree weather, icy roads and shoveling three feet of snow every time it snows and raking 15 tons of leaves in the fall, mowing your yard twice a week and constant insect bites then Minnesota is the place for you. My new place in Vegas has no yard for the grass is dead, there are no biting insects to speak of and no snow!!!!!! and for once, I don't have to sleep with the electric blanket in July. I'll never set foot in Minnesota again, but good luck if this is the place for you.

[knke0204]

Originally Posted by Targen

After living in Minnesota for 14 years, I can honestly say that if you love grey skies during the winter months, negative 24 degree weather, icy roads and shoveling three feet of snow every time it snows and raking 15 tons of leaves in the fall, mowing your yard twice a week and constant insect bites then Minnesota is the place for you. My new place in Vegas has no yard for the grass is dead, there are no biting insects to speak of and no snow!!!!!! and for once, I don't have to sleep with the electric blanket in July. I'll never set foot in Minnesota again, but good luck if this is the place for you.

Way to be lopsided. Whoever reads this person's post, read in caution. All of what you said is either objective or subjective or opinionated. Yes, it's a little gray in the winter, but only a little more than summer and it's almost cloudier than usual everywhere in the winter months. Icy roads? MnDOT does a great job at getting to the roads as soon as possible. It doesn't get icy THAT much to where it becomes a major inconvenience. Living in MN you should have been prepared with a winter vehicle or else you wouldnt have to worry-if not, than its just your fault. I haven't shoveled 3 feet of snow in years. Again, I am a prepared MN citizen I own a snowblower. If you don't need it, then that's fine, but if you can't handle shoveling some snow in Minnesota, what do you expect? Plus, it only snows THAT much very once and awhile. I live in MN and I mow my lawn once a week, twice if i am fussy. That's the same story almost anywhere in the US. What does MN have to do with that? MN usually has drought like summers, so lawns are usually dead if not watered or fertilized, which again would be your problem. You seriously didn't rake 15 tons of leaves? That's like 30,000 pounds, easily a world record. Either YOU live in a forrest, or have a leaf magnent under your lawn. Either way, nothing to do with MN as it's YOU who chose to live in a forrest. Constant insect bites? MAYBE mosquitos...If you're an active person and hang out in mosquito's homes and breeding grounds (grass), and choose not to wear bug spray, than again that's your problem. Multi-million dollar Bug Spray companies dont just get their clientele from Minnesota. In summer times, its bugs times.

Then you go ahead and throw in Las Vegas. A place where life is surrounded by garbage. It's a show-town, sin city and the wild west. Vegas is the worst place in the USA in terms of housing and real estate. It's impossible to find a job there. Vegas and Nevada consistently are ranked at the bottoms in terms of literacy, education, cleanliness, liveablilty, and health. It's one large city that's only economic base is Gambling, Alcohol, and Lodging... Very little class in Vegas. Also you think your dirt tiny yard is great? Who are you kidding? Living in an isolated desert with nobodies? Also, Lake Meade is dying. That city is in a giant crisis for water supply in the future. That's if Vegas ever recovers.

[Jade817]

MN is actually great ( I used to live there) The air is clean and for the most part, the people are nice. I only left because I just dont like cold weather, but that's me. I am a crybaby when I get too cold, but other than the weather, MN isnt a bad place to go if cold weather is something you can deal with.

[HeadOfTheLakes]

Hey, Minnesota has a theater of seasons. Sometimes one season is longer than another . That's one of the reasons we moved from the Twin Cities to Duluth (The other was this is where the grand kids live).

[pamark1]

In the words of my eleven year old girl.......... "Minnesota Sucks!"


Okay....it's not that bad (she's quite the drama queen sometimes)... but it is challenging. We have lived in Moorhead for around7 months so far and it is lonely and cold. Everyone keeps to themselves, and for a southerner, this is very difficult. No one is mean....just indifferent. It is a sad place.

[knke0204]

Originally Posted by pamark1

In the words of my eleven year old girl.......... "Minnesota Sucks!"


Okay....it's not that bad (she's quite the drama queen sometimes)... but it is challenging. We have lived in Moorhead for around7 months so far and it is lonely and cold. Everyone keeps to themselves, and for a southerner, this is very difficult. No one is mean....just indifferent. It is a sad place.

Well yeah, you live in Fargo-Moorhead, the armpit of America. Twin Cities are where the real Minnesota is

[pamark1]

Originally Posted by knke0204

Well yeah, you live in Fargo-Moorhead, the armpit of America. Twin Cities are where the real Minnesota is

It's the cheerful helpfulness that I so enjoy in the citizens of this state......

[bcgr]

Originally Posted by knke0204

Well yeah, you live in Fargo-Moorhead, the armpit of America.

Besides occasional flooding, what's so bad about Fargo?

Twin Cities are where the real Minnesota is

You're not really in Minnesota until you're out of the cities. We're called "Greater Minnesota" for a reason.

We have lived in Moorhead for around7 months so far and it is lonely and cold. Everyone keeps to themselves, and for a southerner, this is very difficult. No one is mean....just indifferent.

If you're new and want to make some friends you'll have to approach someone; not many people will go to you when they have plenty of people they've known their entire life, but few will be rude and just shrug you off. As for the cold-sorry, you'll just have to get used to it.

[pamark1]

Originally Posted by bcgr

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If you're new and want to make some friends you'll have to approach someone; not many people will go to you when they have plenty of people they've known their entire life, but few will be rude and just shrug you off. As for the cold-sorry, you'll just have to get used to it.

Thanks, bcgr. I like it here..... I really do.... it is just going to take some getting used to it. I was born near Philly, PA and lived in Erie, PA and Chicago, IL before moving south to Atlanta when I was 15..... I remember the cold/snow/etc....... it has just been awhile and we haven't outfitted ourselves entirely for the winters here. We'll get it together soon.

When my family moved to Atlanta (a suburb, really) we were in culture shock....... it was just so different. Of course, that was 1976 and we were going from a very metropolitan area to what was, at the time, Podunkville, USA. Atlanta has seen a huge surge since '76 and is just in the past year gone bust...... the economy has tanked down there.... and that's why we are here. From what I've been hearing from others around the country........ the upper midwest may just become the new "south".... your economy up here is tons better then the south and I have talked to about a dozen people in the last 3 days who are moving up here.

As I said, I like it here and no one has been rude or mean.......just indifferent. It is very different from the South I know and love. We'll adapt......always have (well, I don't know about my eleven year old daughter... ).