Minneapolis - tell me what to do

wrt living location, if you have a car and live in either city proper or the close suburbs, yer looking at idk a max 30-45 minute commute to go from one end to the other.

public transportation blows in most cases tho, do not believe the hype

can you name some neighborhoods you are looking at? there are some maddeningly imprecise directional signifiers at play and "north west" would get you some glazed looks if said aloud

also, minneapolis is extremely de facto segregated. north minneapolis is ahem rougher but i know plenty of folks who live there.

Northwest = Maple Grove = don't go there girlfriend

^^^ truthbomb. Most of our suburbs, like suburbs everywhere, are soulless, but MG is some ninth circle of hell imo.

i will stan, mildly, for richfield

roseville is a sack of crap otoh

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.

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

*******FLASHBACKS*******

why are you posting pics of robert zemeckis' sets

HA! It is so Disney Main Street USA, it's just bizarre.

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.

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

yes I am in LA. An hour commute is considered perfectly acceptable here. I listen to a lot of podcasts.

there are some really nice pockets in north mpls

My current commute is 32 miles

xp

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.

so wait, if I put paint on my ass and then sit on some canvases, I could display that at Art-A-Whirl?

Fine art or eine fart?

my current commute is 3.2 miles

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.

^^^^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.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/local-man-knows-he-moved-to-minneapolis-for-someth,32034/

http://stuffaboutminneapolis.tumblr.com/post/47928051541/i-left-minneapolis-last-july-and-i-still-miss-it-every

I sincerely hope the Uptown remodel job wins this year's City Pages "best of" award for Boondoggle of the Year.
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lol tough year for that (xp re boondoggles)

http://www.citypages.com/bestof/2013/award/best-boondoggle-2779552/

brb going to St. Paul to do crimes

i don't get how that's a 'boondoggle'

Ditto, imo.

Why is the Uptown Theater remodel a boondoggle?

iirc some public money went into it

damn St Paul

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?

http://judgmentalmaps.com/image/48615076593

My inlaws-to-be are "hairdressers" apparently.

Proud resident of nothing interesting whatsoever

i want to cunt punt that map

did they call you a hipster?

where i be be dragons

my semi-mpls friends and I enjoyed "that fucking K-Mart"

that was also a source of lolz for my mpls-familiar gf

i do hate that k-mart

also that onion article is kinda otm

yes that fucking k-mart is otm detail

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'

Lake Street missing all sorts of people who aren't BIKERS BIKERS BIKERS BIKERS BIKERS.

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.

yup, says it right on the building.

the MIA is pretty good too but more of a school field trip type art museum

http://www.artsmia.org/

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.

whoa you are staying at that fucking kmart

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