Twin cities has the largest black- white unemployment gap (crime, living)

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by WannaBeinBoston

Mariner, both rcsteiner and I moved to Atlanta from the Twin Cities. Rcsteiner seems to have lived there a lot longer and is native to the area so he has good perspective. I moved there as a transplants many many years ago so I have a transplants perspective. If you're looking at MSP, you'll find a job. In your 20s, live in the Uptown area. It's a lot like VA/Hi and Midtown Atlanta, maybe even Little Five Points. Anywhere else, you'll be bored.

I live in the suburbs of Atlanta(Kennesaw), so for me, trips out to Atlanta city are like a whole different world for me. I've been to Midtown, so if I do end up in MSP, I might give Uptown a go. I must let you know that I'm not a big party animal type. I'm into coffee places, my Catholic faith, bookstores, water, baseball games, soccer games, cycling, NPR,PBS. I'm also of the pedestrian-cycling type.

[Ghengis]

Originally Posted by pete6032

No, he doesn't. He's just talking out of his ass.

I also asked for proof of this in one of the first posts in this thread and no one responded.

well, they say it on KQ all the time!

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by WannaBeinBoston

Mariner, both rcsteiner and I moved to Atlanta from the Twin Cities. Rcsteiner seems to have lived there a lot longer and is native to the area so he has good perspective. I moved there as a transplants many many years ago so I have a transplants perspective. If you're looking at MSP, you'll find a job. In your 20s, live in the Uptown area. It's a lot like VA/Hi and Midtown Atlanta, maybe even Little Five Points. Anywhere else, you'll be bored.

I'm a Twin Cities native (1962-2004), and I've been in the Atlanta metro for almost eight years now, but my knowledge tends to center on the NW quadrant of the metro and Cobb County (Smyrna/Marietta/Kennesaw and southern Cobb), and I don't know a lot about areas south of I-20 or east of 400.

My knowledge of the Twin Cities is similarly limited to the SW quadrant from I-394 south and east to I-35E or so, and mostly north of the river. We rarely went east of Pilot Knob.

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

I live in the suburbs of Atlanta(Kennesaw), so for me, trips out to Atlanta city are like a whole different world for me. I've been to Midtown, so if I do end up in MSP, I might give Uptown a go. I must let you know that I'm not a big party animal type. I'm into coffee places, my Catholic faith, bookstores, water, baseball games, soccer games, cycling, NPR,PBS. I'm also of the pedestrian-cycling type.

Minnetonka has a few similarities to parts of Cobb ... the area along Williston Road where my parents live is hilly (glacial moraine, I think) and tree covered, and it reminds me a little of the wooded ridges you find in southern Smyrna and Mableton where I live now (Ridge Road, Cooper Lake Road, etc.). Mostly residential, some newer subdivisions, lots of areas with older late 50's and 60's rambler-style housing, etc. Not brick ramblers usually, though.

Black soil, tho. Not clay. I'm still not used to the red soil down here in Georgia. Dirt should not be that color...

Ironically, the weather stations I look at for Minnetonka and Mableton at the Weather Underground site are both at precisely 1000 feet ASL. Coincidence?

[trip_shakespeare]

Originally Posted by pete6032

No, he doesn't. He's just talking out of his ass.

I also asked for proof of this in one of the first posts in this thread and no one responded.

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who challenged his racist comments.

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by Ghengis

well, they say it on KQ all the time!

KQ lost its appeal for me after Pennies for Pitchers was done and gone.

[Beenhere4ever]

It was just a popular complaint among people who probably listen to talk radio.

[Min-Chi-Cbus]

Originally Posted by Beenhere4ever

It was just a popular complaint among people who probably listen to talk radio.

Dude, I LOVE talk radio and listen to KQ92, but can't stand their racist comments and right-wing view on the world much of the time! Sometimes you can love something AND hate part of it at the same time -- it doesn't make you a hypocrite!

[Beenhere4ever]

Originally Posted by Min-Chi-Cbus

Dude, I LOVE talk radio and listen to KQ92, but can't stand their racist comments and right-wing view on the world much of the time! Sometimes you can love something AND hate part of it at the same time -- it doesn't make you a hypocrite!

Arrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhh. KQ has gone to that format? I remember a joke I made in the 70's about the "90 minute commercial free music jam". How COULD they?

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by Beenhere4ever

Arrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhh. KQ has gone to that format? I remember a joke I made in the 70's about the "90 minute commercial free music jam". How COULD they?

KQ has had a somewhat right wing slant (in my opinion) since Tom Barnard started the Tom and Dan show in the mid 80's.

I think he's a very funny and talented buy, but sometimes the show goes a little too far. Or went ... it's admittedly been years since I listened.