Is time to forget about Twin Cities and move away? (Minneapolis: neighborhoods, live in)

[BBMW]

I'll take a wet 37 degrees over a bone dry -20 anytime.

Originally Posted by tijlover

As a New Yorker, you don't the difference between dry cold and wet cold? Dry cold is much more comfortable than the wet cold that terrorizes the East Coast at times. That wet cold goes right through to your bones.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by BBMW

Forget the politics. Forget the riots. The winter would be enough to keep me away. I don't mind some winter. But you guys get waaaaaaaay too much.

Winter won't keep me out of Minnesota. I also have some relatives in the Twin Cities. Up to now, Minnepolis and St. Paul are cities I would have considered moving to. Until this tension dies down, I don't know.

[iNviNciBL3]

Originally Posted by tijlover

The downtown area of Minneapolis has been heavily gentrified, and it fans down to Franklin and next down to Lake Street, and some of that has already happened.

Who would have thought that one day that Harlem would be attractive to whites/yuppies! And now they're even redeeming the Bronx. One day having a Bronx address will be fashionable once again. And a light rail line extending down Lake Street would be a big boom to Lake Street, always happens in any city with light rail, the rail stops become mini-cities.

Lake Street always had that big city vibe, it seems like we could easily have a subway line down that road.

[BBMW]

Not that this isn't the NYC forum, but since you bring it up...

I have to drive up to Westchester from Manhatten fairly often. This has be driving out an in through the South Bronx. On my route back in, in an area that looks pretty much like a post industrial wasteland, I've watching an expensive looking high rise going up. It's kind of strange.

Of course, even before Covid, the real estate market in NYC had turned. I'm wondering who's going to be buying, or even renting these units.

Originally Posted by tijlover

The downtown area of Minneapolis has been heavily gentrified, and it fans down to Franklin and next down to Lake Street, and some of that has already happened.

Who would have thought that one day that Harlem would be attractive to whites/yuppies! And now they're even redeeming the Bronx. One day having a Bronx address will be fashionable once again. And a light rail line extending down Lake Street would be a big boom to Lake Street, always happens in any city with light rail, the rail stops become mini-cities.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by BBMW

Not that this isn't the NYC forum, but since you bring it up...

I have to drive up to Westchester from Manhatten fairly often. This has be driving out an in through the South Bronx. On my route back in, in an area that looks pretty much like a post industrial wasteland, I've watching an expensive looking high rise going up. It's kind of strange.

Of course, even before Covid, the real estate market in NYC had turned. I'm wondering who's going to be buying, or even renting these units.

I wouldn't want to live in NYC, at least the part of NYC you're speaking of.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by Kavalier

Have any of you been to Woodbury lately? Sweet jesus the forced subsidized housing out there has turned that decent little town into a unidentifiable third world nation.



And I regretfully informed some of my family that just got a place in Stillwater that the same thing is happening in that once-fine town.

https://censusreporter.org/profiles/...8-woodbury-mn/

you mean 76% white Median HH Income 103k Woodbury, Miinnesota?

Minnesotans are funny.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

https://censusreporter.org/profiles/...8-woodbury-mn/

you mean 76% white Median HH Income 103k Woodbury, Miinnesota?

Minnesotans are funny.

I don't think this is indicative of all Minnesotans. I know about this particular individual. Said individual made a post alluding to him hating Blacks. I view said individual as a bigot.

[iNviNciBL3]

Originally Posted by Kavalier

Have any of you been to Woodbury lately? Sweet jesus the forced subsidized housing out there has turned that decent little town into a unidentifiable third world nation.



And I regretfully informed some of my family that just got a place in Stillwater that the same thing is happening in that once-fine town.

This is my hometown! a city of 70,000 people with only one rush hour bus that stops at the edge of town and you need to spend $1,500 on a 1 bedroom apartment.

[iNviNciBL3]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

I don't think this is indicative of all Minnesotans. I know about this particular individual. Said individual made a post alluding to him hating Blacks. I view said individual as a bigot.

The upper middle class whites in Minnesota who live in the suburbs and the gentrified neighborhoods in the cities probably make up a good chunk of Minnesotas population. These people are dangerous and are passive aggressively conservative but tell people they are liberal.


Its just like the whole O.T.P thing in Atlanta.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by iNviNciBL3

The upper middle class whites in Minnesota who live in the suburbs and the gentrified neighborhoods in the cities probably make up a good chunk of Minnesotas population. These people are dangerous and are passive aggressively conservative but tell people they are liberal.


Its just like the whole O.P.T thing in Atlanta.

No worse than some individuals I've met in Georgia. I've also lived around people who would classified as "rednecks". As a Black person, the most racial hostility I've dealt with were those who dealt in the "redneck culture". Just my experiences.