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Old 04-14-2021, 07:45 AM
 
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What would you say are the most walkable suburbs in the Twin Cities? Where would you live if you wanted to buy a single family home and be within a 10-15 minute walk of a grocery store, coffee shop, and a major public transit line. Does that exist in the suburbs anywhere? Maybe St. Louis Park, Hopkins, Golden Valley?
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Old 04-14-2021, 08:36 AM
 
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St Anthony Village and St Anthony Park
White Bear Lake somewhat close to downtown area
Wayzata
Stillwater.
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Old 04-14-2021, 10:58 AM
 
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These are some suburbs with traditional downtowns as they were villages before being swallowed up in urban sprawl:

Anoka
White Bear Lake
Stillwater
Hopkins
Shakopee
Chaska
Farmington
Rosemount
Hastings
Wayzata
Excelsior
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Old 04-15-2021, 08:06 AM
 
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These are some suburbs with traditional downtowns as they were villages before being swallowed up in urban sprawl:

Anoka
White Bear Lake
Stillwater
Hopkins
Shakopee
Chaska
Farmington
Rosemount
Hastings
Wayzata
Excelsior
Hastings and Farmington are suburbs?
Did not know that. Thanks.

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Old 04-15-2021, 08:20 AM
 
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What would you say are the most walkable suburbs in the Twin Cities? Where would you live if you wanted to buy a single family home and be within a 10-15 minute walk of a grocery store, coffee shop, and a major public transit line. Does that exist in the suburbs anywhere? Maybe St. Louis Park, Hopkins, Golden Valley?
The northwoods are the most walkable.
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Old 04-15-2021, 09:36 AM
 
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What would you say are the most walkable suburbs in the Twin Cities? Where would you live if you wanted to buy a single family home and be within a 10-15 minute walk of a grocery store, coffee shop, and a major public transit line. Does that exist in the suburbs anywhere? Maybe St. Louis Park, Hopkins, Golden Valley?
The kicker to your questions is having a major public transit line.

We have a light rail system, but that does not go out into the suburbs for the most part.

And bus lines. Within Minneapolis-St. Paul, the bus system is much better than in most of the suburbs. I know many people who live within MSP and do not own a car or at least use one for daily commute or errands - everything for them is bus or rail or both, if they cannot or do not want to walk or bike.

Moving outside the two core cities, it gets trickier.

Metro transit has maps to download at https://www.metrotransit.org/schedules-maps . Note that the map may not include all routes (I don't see the express buses from Woodbury on the bus map - not that Woodbury would fit your desires - just not walkable, though lots of walking paths).

Also, there are other bus lines, such as Southwest Transit, Minnesota Valley Transit Authority,
Maple Grove Transit, and Plymouth Metrolink which have express buses into Minneapolis and St. Paul (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...0%93Saint_Paul).
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Old 04-15-2021, 11:51 AM
 
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The suggestions thus far are good.

Even though it's not a suburb technically, I might add Highland park (st paul). It also has a BRT line that takes you to the light rail in addition to it's walkability
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Old 04-16-2021, 07:21 PM
 
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Living in old Shakopee would be pretty neat - downtown is cool and retro. HyVee rocks beyond comparison- SW bus lines around if that’s your thing. Shakopee is neat town with tons of recreational thing to with several miles of town.
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Old 04-19-2021, 07:20 AM
 
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Are those suburbs actually walkable for many people? I mean I'm sure there are a few houses that are close enough and realistic to walk, but I would say not many. St Louis Park, especially Browndale/Minikahda Vista are extremely walkable with many houses nearby. You have everything you need close by and the bike trail and now the light rail coming through. Definitely wouldn't need a car or could get by with one. Hopkins, right next door seems like you'd have a large amount of people that could walk to several things. Edina would fall in that category as well. I think Stillwater and Wayzata have a good walkable area too but again, I'm not sure how many people actually live close enough to take advantage of that.
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