Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

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

hey man u didnt even end up living here, obv gbx should listen to a true blue mn dude and move to cottage grove for my amusement

i love living in south minneapolis

you just walk around wondering if slug ever sat on that bus bench

Pretty sure I've been to Cottage Grove once.

I delivered pizzas in Woodbury, I've done my time.

yeah thx to the music store i am all too acquainted with the weird vibe of ssp. which sucks because there could be a really cool little area thing going on down there, lots of old houses and buildings, this weird secluded old rivertown thing, but youd have to kind of clean sweep the entrenched hardline ssp peeps out first.

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I thought slug rep'd north mpls???

theres a lot to love about south mpls! i have a ton of peeps that have ended up there actually - tbf it also depends on what you consider south mpls, because its kinda huge depending on how you define it

Yeah, SSP is a small town plopped in the middle of the urban-suburban dividing line. Only it has just the bad things about small towns, not the good things.

i consider richfield to be south minneapolis, and also, kenwood.

I def live in the most suburban-seeming place of south Minneapolis, but that also means I'm between two really great parks.

neighborhoods I have lived in: kenwood

what is the technical name for the area just north of the crosstown/minnehaha pkwy and cedar?

by cedar, not north of cedar obv

Matt's Bar

my phone says northrup but if somebody told me they lived in northrup i would be confused

Guess that might be considered Standish?

http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/about/maps/neighborhoods.pdf

Or Northrop or Ericsson.

Used to live behind the county detox center at I-94 and Chicago. A buddy of mine visiting got mugged by a guy with a screwdriver on the Chicago overpass.

Had French doors, built-in shelves and cheap rent. Mixed memories.

Places i lived:

St Paul (on Selby near Snelling): alright, removed enough from Mac-Groveland, but I don't remember doing an awful lot
Powderhorn: Great food nearby during the day, not very much close by at night, way more of a community feeling than anywhere else, but I did got robbed once.
Whittier (near Lyndale and Franklin): pretty awesome, within a block there was a co-op, thrift store, liquor store, open til 1am coffee shop, a couple sketchy bars, and a SuperAmerica that got held up a lot. Also last summer my street flooded in a thunderstorm and everyone was out living it up in thigh-deep water (except for the people whose cars were fucked). Miss that place.

when i lived on emerson near franklin (temple israel and the scottish rite were my alpha and omega) we got flooded and peeps were str8 canoeing

shanty town outstanding burge

OTM?

greetings little one ~_~

Guess which two people on this thread played 331 trivia last night.

hmmm

manok and matos, the hands of fate

We probably should've snapped a pic to mark the occasion.

I may go out and buy a case of beer tonight in memoriam of you guys

Thinking about buying up all the smokes in Mason City and driving up toward Mankato.

ooh good call

hit up that casino that's right next to the state line

wait did we die?

wha happen

Places I lived:

Burnsville (when it was actually little developments surrounded by large plots of farmland, 1970s)
Downtown St. Paul (I was the only teenager in the whole place)
Uptown (near Girard and 35th for a year; Humboldt off of Lake near that cul-de-sac for a year)

this happened: http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/125459928.html

don't worry though, I can still send you cases of malort

haha, might be old news, but I had to see for myself: http://minnesota.gov/

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.

Hey, if you went to Sky Oaks and are around 40, we might have been there together.

A few of my earliest memories (like 2-3 years old) are being with my mom as she lunched with her ERA friends on Robert Street in West St. Paul--at whatever diner had the giant polar bear out front.

I also took the bus on my own to see Sixteen Candles in West St. Paul, having been a Molly Ringwald fan from Facts of Life.

And I played some pinball at the Chuck E. Cheese there. And did karaoke years later at some bar on Robert St. right before it takes a dip.

I went to Vista View and then Gideon Pond, roughly 8 years after you I think. I did have a couple summer school classes (the fun, elementary school version, with classes in sign language and stuff) at Sky Oaks, tho. Weird circle building, right?

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