Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

(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.

live in seward in my opinion

you would go west down the river to get there?

xps

Where I've lived or at least put some form of roots in and my take on them:

46th/Chicago -- Lived here up until grade school. I use it as an excuse to call myself a life-long Minneapolitan even though I don't have too many memories of the neighborhood. My version of The Tree of Life would include a lot of graveyard playtime footage.
Burnsville -- Grew up there. A bastion of mediocrity that's recently put a pretty nice bowtie on what used to be the most dead-end portion of town. Hopefully the next generation will develop personalities as a result.
Lyn-Lake -- Had a nice year there, but there's little excuse to live here if you're over, say, 25.
South St. Paul -- No really, worst fucking year of my life. When cruising up and down Robert Street north of 494 is a highlight, something's gone wrong.
Linden Hills -- I lived in the sort of duplex you know all the rest of the houses on the block seethed over, so my take's probably a little warped. Screw it, though. Uptight city.
Minnetonka -- A chilling glimpse into how the other half lives, and happily too.
Columbia Heights -- Standard dippy "great restaurants" defense.
Nokomis -- I guess too unassuming and remote to count. Could be my suburban upbringing that has me quite content here.
Nordeast -- My parents and a significant chunk of my friends live here. Would that I gave it more consideration when scouting condos, but they were already a little too expensive by the time I was shopping around. If I lived here, tho, I might actually use my bike instead of never using it.

ha no you wouldn't, i have that backwards

xp

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.

Soooo accurate. The grim despair and presumed racism of this area was overwhelming.

live in seward in my opinion

tbh this is the ideal

glad i could help