Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

Its anarchy, baby. Cancel your plans to go to the Zoo/State Parks/Truck stops :(

the state parks thing must be messing with ppl's holiday plans, for real

anyhow, fuck these guys. they even stonewalled a plan to raise taxes on ONLY the top 1%, iirc. it's infuriating.

also: when the fed shuts down AND we're still lacking a state gov't, it's gonna be str8 thunderdomin

Man, I had some hot truck stop plans for the weekend. :(

so i am thinking about moving in the fall. i like my apartment, and being close to the lakes, but no one i know really lives in uptown and it's weird living on the same street i grew up on. being in my childhood nabe has made it easy to ignore other parts of the city (what happens in NE???), and i need to change things up.

what do you suggest

i dig the saint paul, esp midway/cathedral hill.

NE just isnt really my thing but stuff happens there i guess?

I'm not unhappy at all with the Nokomis area. That said, I'd probably have chosen to buy in NE if I could do it all over again.

(I'm sort of underselling Nokomis, actually. I think it's in a lot of ways a fantastic section of town.)

yeah i've been thinking about midway, but no one would ever visit me :(

proximity to pals is a huge motivation here---most ppl i hang with on the reg live in Seward/NE

i guess i don't know the nokomis area, like, at all? i mean i've been to the lake, obv, but i sort of have no 'feel' for basically everywhere in the city that isn't uptown or the seward

cooper/longfellow don't seem bad, either. i want walkability, proximity to groceries, relatively cheap, and close enough to my friends that casual "what're you up to?" hangouts easier.

people who wouldnt visit you in the mighty midway arent people imo

yeah i've been thinking about midway, but no one would ever visit me :(

i live near the midway and you are correct

btw i would like to assert once more that the might midway is gonna blow up once the light rail goes in. my mom is trying to sort her living situation and since she's limited transportation-wise i think she should invest in a duplex and make bank when the hipsters eventually flock there

u guys could visit each other PROBLEM SOLVED

if i stay in mpls/stpl for residency then i'm definitely going to give the nabe a good look---it'll be insanely convenient v. it's current nowheresville vibe

ok let me just run down where i've lived in order

uptown: you have been there
loring: never live here. do. not.
longfellow: pretty nice, much nicer now that there are more bars and stuff, the bit by the river is a little more gentrified now, and the greenway's there. it's like seward only a little dumpier. i don't think you can really rent in seward? idk. far away from everything except the U, if that matters.
merriam park (stp): stay the fuck out, all this izzy's is mine

tbh st paul in general is going to boom when the light rail rolls out - been eyeing some locations on w 7th for a while now to relocate ye olde geetar store

Yeah, light rail was the sole reason I moved to Nokomis/Hiawatha. But other amenities have revealed themselves since I moved there.

Went to the amazing Szechuan place to pick up a take-out for my St. Paul-dwelling cousin and marveled at the amazing restaurants on University. I could see it going hipsterish around there - especially by where the St Paul Northern Lights used to be.

hmm i thought the 'boom' along the LR has been oversold a little? successful as it is otherwise.

Sorry folx, I'm a ride or die Minneapolitan.

well, the hiawatha line is for commuters/vikings fans. the central line is going to connect the downtown zones and imo is gonna see as much recreational use as it does commuting

yeah the idea of being able to hop $5 cabs from my house to the terminal and back = awes

also for real has anyone seen the mockups of the west/east bank university stations? it's sorta nuts and awesome imo. plus i guarantee that univ students are going to push into midway/frogtown

also another reason i'm asking about nabes is so you guys will give me scoops on hot deals yr friends are moving out of

btw my friend lived in North this past year because he was exclusively at NMemorial and had a pretty decent 2BR to himself for under $700

Tons of for sale signs up in every neighborhood tbh.

hrmmm places i have lived in order

grand/lexington area - really calm in that boring way that people in mpls see stpl in general, grand is boring as shit, pier one still thriving if you get me
st paul warehouse district - pretty great in the mid 90s, def fell off but seems to be getting kinda awes again
east saint paul - lol u gonna get shot
u of m - never again
frogtown - no srsly u gonna get shot, but the food is awesome
n hamline midway area - dreadful
stevens square - overrated bullshit, u pretend u not gonna get shot but u might
uptown - the dream is gone
south minneapolis - a nice place to have nothing to do in
midway - people think u gonna get shot but you prob wont, never a dull moment, mostly in a good way
mac/groveland - see grand/lexington, terrible terrible bars full of idiots
west side/w st paul - totally awesome, great food, no one wants to live in apartments around here because they are all terrible, homeowners treat renters like they are transients, weird sprouting world of young people as the old school peeps all die off or move to homes, great place to buy but not the place to not.

i know i am missing some here

i have one friend (g3n3vi3v3 who u might have met? idk) who has a pretty amazing place on the hilltop end of grand that will be available soon, i can get deets for u

hmmm that seems to remote for me i think

south minneapolis - a nice place to have nothing to do in
w st paul - totally awesome

Not listening to anything you have to say ever again, for the record.

Oops, thought you literally meant West St. Paul, which, along with South St. Paul, ought to be wiped from the map.

*sound of a bar stool getting kicked over*

oh this will be fun

south minneapolis - a nice place to have nothing to do in

fwiw this is p much how i feel about s mpls, though i gather things are changing

Oops, thought you literally meant West St. Paul, which, along with South St. Paul, ought to be wiped from the map.

― ephendophile (Eric H.), Wednesday, July 6, 2011 8:57 PM (1 hour ago)

sigh

rollin deep in the 55118 dusting off haters

Well, there it is. Nice pretending to know you.

It's all pretty uniformly minnehopeless.

*sidles towards the back of the bar, tests pool cue for heft*

btw gbx, 2 words - COTTAGE GROVE

I mean if you want to live in a neighborhood that time didn't so much forget as it did actively reject, Sauk Rapids and Moorhead are a lot cheaper.

I'd rather live in the Mall of America than live in West St. Paul again.

wow wait you actually lived in WSP?!

i should prob full disclose and inform everyone that i live in the northernmost point in wsp, if you go 2 blocks east or west you are in saint paul. im north of annapolis.

Oops, sorry, don't know why I typed that. I meant South St. Paul. West St. Paul isn't quite so dire.

Must've been thinking of that video parody of West St. Paul.

(Anyway, no offense intended, fwiw coming from the guy who likes living in the only place in Mpls where there's nothing to do.)

I still don't understand the arrangement in space of w and s stpl

no one does!

SSP is pretty cheerless tbh. the post stockyard days have been pretty bad, mainly due to the newest generation of permanent stockyard dudes who dont have anything else they ever thought of doing, other than being racists and meth.