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Lived in maple grove for 4-5 years and we liked it. Left in 2022 as Brooklyn park crime was starting to bleed over. Also they don’t have much to choose from for new housing. It was great for the proximity to up north but 94 was often backed up on fridays. If we can make a return back to the state we will live much further out ie Chanhassen and that general area.

Global warming is false and the public schools in Minnesota are terrible. How do I know because I live in Minnesota and have 2 kids in the school system.

I have lived in several places across the country, across the globe. Minnesota is not perfect, but it is the best state to live, grow, and work. (Except Minneapolis-it needs a serious mayor and a make over)

insular, frankly hicks by history, low culture by standards of even Chicago and food is pretty bad, nowhere near Chicago quality- all terrible. And what is the hating on Wisconsin and Iowa? A prairie home companion is part of the states roots- a bit higher quality? There's a snootiness that has no basis in reality but they think it's true. Winters are really bad- coldest major metro in the country No real public transit. on and on

I grew up in the Twin Cities, I left 20 years ago and just moved back. The cities have degenerated and quite frankly is clearly past its peak. I moved to Edina, supposedly a nice area. The second week of school, the schools were closed because of a gun in the high school. A week before I moved to Minnesota, southdale mall has a gun shooting. By the way, the malls looks like crap and are completely dead. The mall of America, once a lively energetic place now is full of Minnesota tourist stores and there’s a bag check / TSA at all the entrances. The twin cities has clearly been good for 1 group of people, and that’s Somalian.

Too many Somalis

as for the making friends part, ive lived here my whole life and once i lost my highschool friends its became almost impossible to meet new genuine people. everyone hides behind minndsota nice and it can be a struggle to actually get to know people. lots of people come off as fake.

They don’t call us the land of 10,000 taxes for nothing

Born and raised in Minnesota and currently reside still in Minnesota. I was engaged in a conversation just yesterday and one of the people was a woman that moved in here from Illinois and someone else from Washington state and your number one point that’s exactly what they said word for word that we are kind of stuck up hard to make friends here hard to penetrate a group, very superficial and I was somewhat surprised at what they said

Notice he didn't mention there is no tax on food and clothes.

I call the social and cultural challenges"Minnesota ICE" 😀😀 get it?! Originally from Kentucky, then lived in Los Angeles for 10 years. I've never had social challenges like I've experienced here in Minnesota. You definitely have to be a joiner and find the other transplants. Half my new friends are from NY or CA 😅

As a MN person near the hub I am not sure the Minnesota nice thing is that much of a thing more then anywhere else of better parts of USA. Allot of minnesota Compared to NYC, Chicago and worst parts of CA west coast, yes but twin cities themselves have all the worse aspects of those areas and now a trend setter instead of a follower including crime decriminalization and likelihood or literal race riots (one famous one spread around USA and world) .

I sure as well wouldn't buy a house from you

The inner city chicago transplants have been ruining the twin cities for decades now. If they could all be sent back it would be much better.

I don't regret moving here - the city I moved here from was worse! I met my wife here. I love the state parks and the general hiking and outdoors opportunities. But I've made zero friends in over a decade who aren't fellow transplants. If you're not from here and can't help someone get ahead professionally it doesn't matter how pleasant or charming you are - you'll never be more than a distant acquaintance to them. The people here are passive aggressive or just phoney MN Nice.

move here if you want monotonous suburban hell to suck the soul from your body.

It's been a somewhat okay experience living in Minneapolis/Brooklyn Park area. Unfortunately, I what I have experienced as a Hispanic American person is discrimination from black Americans individuals. Additionally, I have spoken with some of the the Latinos that I have encountered and they too have experienced discrimination from the black people. That breaks my heart that we Latinos have to experienced this Behavioral!!

Buh bye

I’ve lived here for 50 years. YES, violent crime is up significantly since the 2020 riots. Who is responsible? Walz, Keith Ellison, “Bloody” Mary Moriarty, the mayors, City Council… It’s misleading to tell people that it’s “fear mongering” and “sensationalism” to talk about this fact when actually, you are gaslighting people. Things were very different here just 10 years ago, and in the early 2000’s, it truly was a different place altogether. 1) crime in both of the Twin Cities have failed to be properly reported on by our local media, and therefore failed to do their jobs. Instead, they’d rather have stories about how cool the lakes & bike paths are. See? No crime here! Everything is fine! 2) the crime here just simply isn’t being reported by victims, and additionally, by the police themselves. Why? Because the police no longer respond to everything that gets called in. There isn’t enough staff to take all of the calls, and if you do happen to call in a report to the black hole known as “311”, it likely isn’t getting properly documented, and because of this the crime stats aren’t real, and crime most certainly isn’t “down”. 2) the “gentrifiers” as some of us call them, do their very best to pretend that “Nothing is wrong whatsoever! Everything is fine! Please, stop being negative and just stop talking about all of these uncomfortable truths! Oh and by the way, here’s a bag of Pollyanna, don’t smoke it all at once!” and they get particularly irritated when you call out the BS they love to post on X: “Oh! Look at me! I’m riding my bike, here, there, wherever! And guess what?! The city ISN’T burning, and I DIDN’T get shot!” And then they post either a pic of them riding down the new Bryant Ave bike path. Wow. Congrats. You rode your bike down a path that CARS rarely drive down, much less all the rampant carjackers. OR they’ll post cringy comments with a sunset pic over Lake Calhoun (😉). Follow @CrimeWatchMpls and @MN_CRIME and also @AlphaNewsMN on X, because those accounts do their best to report what is actually going on here.

In no specific order we left because 1. Public schools being infiltrated with LGBTQA policies. 2. Crime bleeding out into the suburbs 3. Not being able to adequately protect your family if your are burglarized. 4. Police hate 5. Draconian measures on healthcare etc.

It’s not just The Twin Cities that are Blue when it comes to voting. Areas in Greater Minnesota around Moorhead, Mankato, Rochester, and Duluth also lean or vote Blue as well.

Minneapolis is in ruins,, having been burned down due to the ineffective leadership of governor Walz. Public schools are a disaster. Woke has taken over. DEI is paralyzing everything. Cost of living is crazy high.. Insurance on anything has doubled or more. I live in St. Paul. Crime is very high. Minneapolis is called Murderapolis. I do not recommend anyone moving here. Sorry, sad but true.😞 😮

Bad video. That Minnesota nice thing is so overblown and inaccurate it is a joke.. The homeless topic is not true in that there is a very tiny homeless area which is in an area nobody really want to visit or drive through. 99.6 % of the metro does not have homeless. It is a worse problem in other major cities, same is true about crime. There can be traffic and is not nearly as bad other major cities. The Canadian wildfire topic is a joke, there was a few days in 2023 where is looked cloudy which were wildfires, and it was really in the very northern part of the state. It is not an annual or even a once a decade event. I doubt they ever canceled an event because of it. The sky looked cloudy and other than that it had not noticeable.

cost of living here is definitely in the top 5 worst.

I moved to Minnesota in 2017 and here are my takeaways: 1. Minnesota nice = don’t notice me. Ppl want to be left alone & do not tolerate unnecessary small talk. In other places, random convos w/ strangers at bars, grocery stores, restaurants, etc. is common. In Minnesota, you will be ignored if you try to initiate small talk. 2. Beer drinking = pilsners & blonde lagers. In Illinois, for example, getting a Coors Light at a bar would invite ridicule from friends. In Minnesota, it’s normal. 3. Sports fans are very apathetic. In Minnesota, no one really talks negatively about the players in an aggressive manner. If a QB throws a bad game, they’ll say “it is what it is.” In Chicago, calls for a public hanging because of 1 interception is common. 4. The absence of “white trash.” Anywhere you go, there is a clear presence of lower class white ppl. You can tell who’s “middle class” and “lower class” just by looking at them. You don’t really get that in Minnesota. 5. Everyone is either German, Swedish, Norwegian, or Finnish - barely anyone has Polish, Irish, Italian, or Greek ancestry. I don’t think ppl outside of Minnesota realize how weird it is that literally no one has Irish ancestry. 6. Horrible food diversity. There are towns where there is literally nothing but bar and grills or fast food. Italian, Mexican, etc. are only luxuries for the suburbs/cities.

If you don’t want to work and live off the government. This is the place for you.

Woke government! Tyrannical DNR. 0 representation from corrupt politicians

It's not "homelessness." It's drug addiction. They live in "homeless camps" because they don't have to go far to meet their drug dealer throughout the day. Replace "homeless camp" with "Open Air Drug Scene," and you'll have it right.

We don't have "taxes on everything" there is no tax on clothing or groceries

As a life long resident. Mn as crashed hard. 2008 was a great time been very down hill sence then.

You forgot reason #11. The part-time Minnesotans. The ones that come to clog golf courses and lakes in the summer, only to come back next summer to be in the way, again, and complain about how Minneapolis is a hell-on-earth. Keep your ass in Florida or Texas or wherever it is that you can't stand to be for the whole year. Own two houses? Pick one and free up a unit for people who want to be wherever you don't.

Love Minnesota came here from Wisconsin!

Can’t wait to leave mn

For me, it's the wind chill. I will CONSTANTLY ask Google what the temp feels like instead of what the temp actually is.

Try NYC! Can get more superficial than this

Minneapolis didnt get a single snow storm last year. It was a major bummer for the kids.

So I noticed Tim Walz wasn't listed as one of the reasons...

minnesota has turned into a 3rd world shihole under the dems rule

Born and raised in Minnesota, Minneapolis and suburbs. Spend winters in Phoenix, Mesa Arizona. I prefer Minnesota by far! My only big complaint in Minnesota is the long winters.

How many ways can you say higher cost of living and neglect to include the lack of diversity? If you talk to people who aren’t white, the lack of diversity is on top of their list. Also, by many metrics Minnesota is often in the top three of places to live, but if you account for race, then it’s among the worst. I moved here 8 years ago and I came because I thought it was affordable compared to the other places I was considering (the coasts, Chicago, and Austin). Yes, taxes are high, but working in the gov sector and nonprofits, my base salary was livable compared to the other places I considered. I imagine that people in the corporate sector can stretch their money further than in the other large cities I considered.

I grew up in Minneapolis. Now I live in Hilo, Hawaii. Aloha!

walz has turned minnesota into a 3rd world shithole

Extra 15 min? That would be awesome in Atlanta

1. Passive aggressive, keep outsiders at arms length, absolutely terrible roads from potholes to 3 lanes on their interstate loop. the roads are built for a city the size of around 1 million. 7 days a week of rush hour and it's foolish, let alone because the highways can't handle the traffic, all the roads have extra stop lights and you might catch a two light green wave like I once did in 2009. Move across the river to Wisconsin where they aren't passive aggressive, they're super welcoming, their food isn't Nordic bland, and you can afford your house payment. unfortunately, traffic is everywhere here, so it's no different if you live in MN or WI. Otherwise, time your vacations to get out of here in late April otherwise you'll go nuts when you realize the rest of the country has been golfing for a month while we still have 12 inches on the ground come May.

Dude is right I regret being born here.

The crime problem in Minneapolis (within the city limits, not the suburbs) is horrific. I think he glossed over that a bit too much. As a landlord with 13 doors in the nicest most affluent parts of Minneapolis I can say fully 1/3 of my renters ask to break the lease early because they don't feel safe. Most of the crime goes unreported because the police are so understaffed and frankly terrified to intervene unless they absolutely have to. In the last 12 months 1 renter was nearly beaten to death during a mugging, 1 renter had their car stolen from onsite the property, 3 cars were broken into, 2 home break ins, and I wont even mention vandalism, peepers, or other misc. petty theft. That's just what happened directly to my renters in the last 12 months and again, that's in the nicest neighborhoods (think average home value $800-$1M). The problem isn't overreporting, it's underreporting.

In areas it's really a beautiful place to live for sure. There is some crime that I never experienced 20 years ago, especially Minneapolis which I used to go to all the time but avoid now. The water can be a big expense in newer cities where they are building out to, heating can be very high especially Jan and Feb when it can be below zero quite a bit on typical years, the winter season lasts into April sometimes so it can be really a problem if you are sensitive to seasonal disorder, the cloudy days in winter is HIGH, mosquitos and ticks in the summer months can't be under stressed (especially up north), the political divides are quite wide and no one wants to hear things they don't agree with, and when we talk about how much snow you will need to plow or shovel it can be so high you can see to back up from your driveway. There are problems everywhere you live so as long as you are prepared for the negatives, you will probably like it here.

Run crawl go quick take your family friends don’t have a small business it’s not the weather it’s ?????😮

hopkins #1 right out the gate... the video is disqualified. 😄