Northwest = Maple Grove = don't go there girlfriend
― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ truthbomb. Most of our suburbs, like suburbs everywhere, are soulless, but MG is some ninth circle of hell imo.
― Basil Ironweed (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
i will stan, mildly, for richfield
― goole, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
roseville is a sack of crap otoh
― goole, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
Northwest = box store hell. Maple Grove is full of meatheads and those awful 'townhouses' where they sleep are more expensive than city accommodation. My sister lived there for two years and she's fairly 'Applebees diner' but even she though it was a soulless pastiche of a small town full of bad chain shops. I could not imagine the kind of mindset it would take to settle there, procreate, and send your spawn to its horrible schools.
St Louis Park is the only decent inner suburb that's not completely up itself - but I would say that, I'm from there. So I will also say FUCK EDINA as per contractual obligation. Love south Minneapolis bordering Edina/St Louis Park but the whole of the south side has tons of beautiful housing stock and people opening up little restaurants. Lots of indie coffee owing to all the rich rehabbers who stayed on to open cafés from the '80s onward.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
It's the fake Maple Grove downtown that skeeves me most.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/img/1.0/sections/mag/moneymag/bplive/2008/snapshot/maplegrove_mn.jpg
― Basil Ironweed (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
*******FLASHBACKS*******
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
why are you posting pics of robert zemeckis' sets
― goole, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
HA! It is so Disney Main Street USA, it's just bizarre.
― Basil Ironweed (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I should clarify - I don't know any neighborhoods, but this job would actually be outside of Minneapolis proper in the general NW direction, I just assumed I would be looking to live in the city.
― crdbl (admrl), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
where are you now, LA? i was about to repeat the truism that a good commute is a major boon to happiness. but by california standards you could probably live in wisconsin and see an improvement
― goole, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
yes I am in LA. An hour commute is considered perfectly acceptable here. I listen to a lot of podcasts.
― crdbl (admrl), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
there are some really nice pockets in north mpls
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
My current commute is 32 miles
xp
― crdbl (admrl), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
admrl, the reason there is so much art for goole to complain about is because everyone can do it. Studio space is affordable, standard of living is good, and there are hella grants and $$$ flowing out of sucker's hands into artist pockets. There's a lot of great stuff. goole also keeps going out to art-a-whirl which is a city-wide open studio festival. This is a mistake. Everyone with a set of water colors or some junk to nail together will have a table out somewhere. If you go to art-a-whirl, go band-hopping and get drunk, but for god's sake don't go to see art unless you know exactly what you're going to check out and where it is.
― No, not sinister (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
so wait, if I put paint on my ass and then sit on some canvases, I could display that at Art-A-Whirl?
― the pheromones of hot clothing (DJP), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
Fine art or eine fart?
― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
my current commute is 3.2 miles
― My Chemical Romance did 9/11 (jjjusten), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
another thing that my not from here friends mention all the time is the public school system in MN - idk if you have/think you'll have kids, but private school is def not seen as a necessity here like it is in many places.
― My Chemical Romance did 9/11 (jjjusten), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^This. Apparently they offer International Baccalaureate at my old high school, which is best in state on the reg, but it replaced a more difficult set of AP courses they offered when I was a student. The best public high schools in the state are in South Minneapolis and the near western suburbs.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/local-man-knows-he-moved-to-minneapolis-for-someth,32034/
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Saturday, 13 April 2013 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://stuffaboutminneapolis.tumblr.com/post/47928051541/i-left-minneapolis-last-july-and-i-still-miss-it-every
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
I sincerely hope the Uptown remodel job wins this year's City Pages "best of" award for Boondoggle of the Year.-----lol tough year for that (xp re boondoggles)
http://www.citypages.com/bestof/2013/award/best-boondoggle-2779552/
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
brb going to St. Paul to do crimes
― Dr. Adorbius (mh), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
i don't get how that's a 'boondoggle'
― goole, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
Ditto, imo.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
Why is the Uptown Theater remodel a boondoggle?
― beach situations (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
iirc some public money went into it
― goole, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
damn St Paul
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that was a huge story. i laughed like a motherfucker when i heard it the first time (drive time MPR iirc)
i'd need to look at the original stories again but i think defense attorneys happened upon this basically by accident?
― goole, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://judgmentalmaps.com/image/48615076593
My inlaws-to-be are "hairdressers" apparently.
― a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
Proud resident of nothing interesting whatsoever
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
i want to cunt punt that map
― goole, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
did they call you a hipster?
― Dr. Adorbius (mh), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
where i be be dragons
― goole, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
my semi-mpls friends and I enjoyed "that fucking K-Mart"
― Dr. Adorbius (mh), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
that was also a source of lolz for my mpls-familiar gf
― a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
i do hate that k-mart
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
also that onion article is kinda otm
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
yes that fucking k-mart is otm detail
― goole, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
that and 'millionaire democrats'
not enough labels tho tbh, while i'm complaining.
like NE alone needs addition of 'hoodrat wites', 'terrible watercolorists', and 'slavs'
― goole, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
Lake Street missing all sorts of people who aren't BIKERS BIKERS BIKERS BIKERS BIKERS.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
saw this thread revived, thought "hey I'm going to Minneapolis in a couple of days", realize it was revived today with a mention of the house where I'll be crashing.
anyway, say you have a completely free Monday and a car and want to eat somewhere good for lunch and see art stuff - what would a person opt to do? I've never actually been to the Walker but it appears to be closed mondays.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 05:58 (eleven years ago) link
yup, says it right on the building.
the MIA is pretty good too but more of a school field trip type art museum
― goole, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.artsmia.org/
whoa you are staying at that fucking kmart
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
dear minneapolitans etc
do this dude's 'prey' novels have like, 'local color'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sandford_%28novelist%29
apparently one of them is set in wayzata, ha
― j., Friday, 26 July 2013 02:27 (ten years ago) link
Never read any of them
― nice moderating dude (jjjusten), Friday, 26 July 2013 02:39 (ten years ago) link
how the hell not, there's like fifty
― j., Friday, 26 July 2013 02:40 (ten years ago) link