Moving from Kansas City, Missouri to Minneapolis

[Min-Chi-Cbus]

All I said is that Linden Hills has THE premier coffee shop in the area -- I believe -- and it's a different option than the usual Uptown or Dinkytown, like you always suggest.

[uptown_urbanist]

Not sure if this is addressing me, so here goes: I wasn't bashing Linden Hills by any means, just suggesting that (other than decent coffee) it didn't seem to be what this couple was looking for in a neighborhood. (and if by "you" you mean me, I rarely recommend Dinkytown). I LOVE Linden Hills and recommend it quite a bit, but it's a hassle to get to the U from there (although certainly doable; I've done it many times myself, as I used to work near Linden Hills while attending the U -- it's just long, but at least you can read on the bus). It's not reallly an "artsy" neighborhood (although there are artists living there), entertainment, restaurant, and shopping options are rather limited (although not bad, but it's no entertainment "district"), and apartments there tend to be on the more expensive (for Minneapolis) side. It's a wonderful, quiet, beautiful, upper middle-class neighborhood on the banks of the lake. I grew up spending a lot of time there, and now spend a lot of time there with my son. I love Linden Hills, think it's one of the nicest neighborhoods in the city, just think it fits very few of the wish list items for this poster, that's all. By all means they can check it out for themselves and see if they agree with that assessment.

I still think they should give close consideration to Lyn-Lake, given that they want entertainment, coffee, biking, artsy, convenient to the U; it's one of the most "artsy" neighborhoods around, there are probably both more coffee AND bike shops concentrated there than anywhere else in the city, it's overflowing with restaurants and entertainment options, it's relatively convenient to the U, it has the Midtown Greenway (for biking), and there are apartments in their price range.

[FamousBlueRaincoat]

Linden Hills actually is a pretty neat neighborhood. It's not really somewhere I would want to live, it's more of a family neighborhood. I don't mind that, part of what I liked about Powderhorn and Seward was the fact that there were lots of families and lots of people like myself too. Better than all college kids. I'm surprised more college students aren't steered towards Linden Hills, between the fact it's one of the few neighborhoods in Minneapolis that you can really live in, with all the local businesses - plus the 6 bus runs well and gets you to Uptown in a few minutes, plus goes through downtown and to the U.

It's probably because it's pretty well to do, I guess, and not your typical setting for a college student. And perhaps people who live in Linden Hills don't want college kids living there. But if OP was attracted to Lyn-Lake, which uptownurbanist did a pretty good job at describing, Linden Hills probably isn't what they're looking for.

If OP goes for Lyn-Lake, i'd stick closer to Lyndale. Down by Nicollet and 35W is probably the dumpiest part of Lake Street, IMO, with those awful strip malls. Much bleaker than the east side of 35W, in my opinion, where you at least have active streets with small businesses. There are plenty of younger people who live there though, due to proximity to uptown but lower rents. There's a limited stop bus to the U that runs up Lyndale that will make getting to the U pretty easy - stops on west and east banks.