MN is a great state to be from. Good reputation as I have moved around the country.

@manualbatt1648

5 ай бұрын

It's great if you're WHITE !!!

@MarkBerg-tk8js

3 ай бұрын

For sure Ole Swan and Fritz,

@0SlowOperator0

2 ай бұрын

Its being overran by Somalians.

@herbb8547

2 ай бұрын

That is starting to change, though. MN used to have some of the highest high school test scores in the nation. This year, only 36% of 11th graders were proficient in math and only 52% were proficient in English. That is the worst in the US. On the other hand, MN spends $20,000 on each student's education each year. And that is the highest in the US. MN has the worst and most expensive education system in the entire country.

@MCGguitar698

2 ай бұрын

The statistics prove you wrong.

Minnesota Nice=Passive Aggressive

@ShawnShipstad

2 ай бұрын

They are scumbags. Lets just face the facts,

@mpls1982

2 ай бұрын

Not really. People can just be generally nice. There's no agenda.

@myblacklab7

2 ай бұрын

I call it "Minnesota Ice." But there is also genuine Minnesota Nice, and I've had experiences where people have been ridiculously nice, especially in the country.

@ralphjohnson3202

Ай бұрын

Can't be any worse than the Seattle Freeze.

@BrianJuntunen

Ай бұрын

I grew up in Circle Pines and Buffalo and my brother and I often complained about "plastic people". I am way more comfortable where I live in Rochester, NY. Smaller metro than the twin cities here, but I can deal with people without feeling like I'm not hearing the real person speak to me.

OK, lots of comments about "Minnesota Nice." As someone who grew up in MN and moved to Boston in my 20s, and am now back in MN, here's my comparison. In Minnesota, people are friendly from the start. That doesn't mean they want to be friends and hang out... It just means they're being pleasant. In Massachusetts, I literally had someone cross the street mid-block after I made eye contact and said hello. People are avoidant and cold there, skeptical of everyone around them. Now, once you get to know people in Massachusetts, they're just as friendly as anywhere else. They just don't "waste time" on pleasantries. Since we interact with strangers on a daily basis when out running errands, etc, I enjoy Minnesota's Friendliness. But I do agree that it can be hard to differentiate between stranger-friendly, and friend-friendly. Did that make sense? Oh, and if you think Minnesota drivers are aggressive... Go drive in Massachusetts for a bit and let me know how that goes.

I'm from Texas - lived there for 30 years, then NYC for one year, 2.5 years in Westport, CT and then 30 years in Minnesota - I won't mention the 7 months we lived in Brazil 😆. We have seasons here and I can take the long, cold, snowy winters any day over one sweltering summer in Texas. No tax on clothing can add up for some - gotta have those coats, long johns, hats, scarves, gloves and boots! Love it here!! 🥰

Observing someone's first MN winter is always amusing!

@TheEnd-eg6wq

2 ай бұрын

If last winter was someone's first, they have no idea what winter is like here.

@jamesvandemark2086

2 ай бұрын

@@TheEnd-eg6wq Yes- the warmest one on record! (Not a good thing.)

@TheEnd-eg6wq

2 ай бұрын

@@jamesvandemark2086 In the last 5 years we've had one of the top 5 coldest and snowiest winters ever. Please don't panic.

@jamesvandemark2086

2 ай бұрын

@@TheEnd-eg6wq Have enjoyed decades of MN winters!

@TcThomas-kv7rv

2 ай бұрын

Winters not that bad

The traffic is frustrating because “Minnesota nice” is superficial. Everyone in their car drives angry in congested traffic.

@jeffb321

2 ай бұрын

Everyone drives in the fast lane. I hate the twin cities with a passion.

@DS-jh1bp

Ай бұрын

The traffic here is a joke compared to other metro areas. Love the TC

@seancosgrove1

Ай бұрын

Go to Dallas or one of the California cities if you think TC drivers are aggressive.

@dsch3241

Ай бұрын

@@seancosgrove1grew up in MN. Lived in LA for a decade. Californian’s are smart aggressive drivers. Minnesotan’s are aggressive but not smart drivers 😂

@seancosgrove1

Ай бұрын

@@dsch3241 I just looked it up. California has 1.4 vehicular deaths per 100 million miles. Minnesota it's .77 which is basically tied for the lowest in the country. And that doesn't even factor in how it's more difficult to drive in icy conditions.

I would disagree on the housing prices. They are fairly high now. It used to be affordable but now, some parts of the Twin Cities are crazy high.

@brianpearson7345

2 ай бұрын

I pay 550 for a studio in the midway neighborhood in Saint Paul

@777jones

Ай бұрын

Compared to the rest of the country, MN is very cheap and getting cheaper.

It’s not “nice” if it’s fake 😉

@MCGguitar698

2 ай бұрын

Exactly!

@markhall6306

2 ай бұрын

@@MCGguitar698 facts Minnesota condescending

@tomlund4951

2 ай бұрын

Okay bud…whatever…

@tomlund4951

2 ай бұрын

@@markhall6306Oh yah so ya think ya got us all figured out do ya? Okay den…

@sunshineb-d5006

2 ай бұрын

I agree!

I left Minneapolis for Boston about 23 years ago. Boston was fantastic! But SO expensive. Then moved to Denver. The weather is excellent! But didn't love the area. Ended up back in MN 18 years ago. After traveling the country via semi truck and motorcycle, MN has a fantastic quality of life. I wouldn't mind escaping a couple of the hardest winter months, but otherwise, this is home.

@charlesbullghost5491

2 ай бұрын

I heard Boston is a democratic lefty city too!

@tomlund4951

2 ай бұрын

Amen.

@krendellbreaux7825

2 ай бұрын

It's a great place to live and work.

@jacobmartinez5461

Ай бұрын

Denver is overrated

@adambirman2379

8 күн бұрын

We were in Denver a few years ago. No bathrooms anywhere. Human feces on the sidewalk. He had to step over homeless on the sidewalk in middle of the day. e​@@jacobmartinez5461

Been trying to escape this state for the following reasons. Taxes, Crime, Cold, Government.

@DefaultModeNetwork

Ай бұрын

Here’s a hint. Get on I35 and head south. Get on 94 and head east or west. Leave today.

@marquezbrown70

28 күн бұрын

Maybe you'd be happier in Florida? Get on a freeway and leave. Bye.

@BrandonGarcia-go5uc

23 күн бұрын

Ditto. Looking at Texas.

@alanploetz7100

22 күн бұрын

​@@marquezbrown70I did and you are right, Marquez. Just helped my bro-in-law move to Texas. If my 80-something in-laws could be uprooted, I'd at least move across the St. Croix. Born in MN, lived there 60 of my 66 years and it continues circle the drain.

@veritasaequitas9252

12 күн бұрын

Agreed. Government is weak, woke and communist.

"we have taxes on everything!' Nope. Not on clothing, groceries or medicines.

@MovingToTheTwinCities

9 ай бұрын

Important correction. Thank you!

@What_Makes_Climate_Tick

6 ай бұрын

I grew up in MN, but have not lived there for a long time, and was meaning to ask whether clothing is still exempt from sales tax, unlike most other states. I'm from Crookston, near the ND border, and if you bought high-dollar clothes in Grand Forks, they'd always ask whether you're from MN and offer to mail it to you to avoid sales tax. I spent a year living in Boulder, CO, and there they have a city tax that even includes groceries.

@markhall6306

4 ай бұрын

Mn dot sucks they are more interested in bike lanes than adding lanes to highways

@markhall6306

4 ай бұрын

Don’t move to Minnesota it’s junky a state high taxes and too many feminists especially Minneapolis

@What_Makes_Climate_Tick

4 ай бұрын

@@markhall6306 Good for them. You might end up with more compact and sustainable cities. kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zp-HtqynhJPahag.html

I call it “Minnesota Ice.” I moved here 35 years ago. 95 percent of my friends are from other states.

@tomlund4951

2 ай бұрын

Well… they should all call their mom.

@myblacklab7

2 ай бұрын

I use that phrase too! I also think there is real Minnesota Nice, but sometimes it's "Minnesota Ice."

@ralphjohnson3202

Ай бұрын

Can't be any worse than the Seattle freeze .

I'm a North Dakotan who has been trapped in Minnesota for 30 years. I'm literally counting the days when I can get out of this state. It was a pretty cool place in the late 90's, early '00s, but has quickly gone downhill, especially since 2020, after the overdose death of Saint George.

@chevysaregr8

2 ай бұрын

He hasn't committed a crime since!!!

@williamfeldner9356

Ай бұрын

Watch “ Minneapolis is Falling “. Minneapolis is now a No Go Zone .

@seancosgrove1

Ай бұрын

"Trapped" You can leave any time. It's a giant country. You can live anywhere. You chose this. Grow up dork.

@DefaultModeNetwork

Ай бұрын

You should move, why stay someplace you don’t like?

@kleindropper

Ай бұрын

@@DefaultModeNetwork trapped in a job, only have a few years left to go

I’m getting out of Minnesota ASAP! It’s not the same I grew up here through the 70 80 90’s I don’t like it here anymore costs way too much to live here

@MarkBerg-tk8js

3 ай бұрын

50 thousand have left!

@truthexplorer5600

2 ай бұрын

Bye

@dsch3241

Ай бұрын

@@MarkBerg-tk8jsnot surprised. I grew up here. Lived in CA/ Los Angeles. I regret moving back.

Love Minnesota. Just moved here last year

@jonanderson4474

27 күн бұрын

How's it going as of now? Still good? Bumming? Move already? Plan on staying?

@Joeshmoe2579

9 күн бұрын

Any update?

My comment got deleted. Apparently someone who's lived here 62 years has no valid evaluation of the ridiculous state Minnesota has become.

@mpls1982

2 ай бұрын

I bet you're a republican

@crs11becausecrs10wastaken

2 ай бұрын

CommieTube doesn't allow speech that goes against the narrative.

@mcgowanjamie52

2 ай бұрын

I've been here 53year, and trust me they wouldn't like anything I had to say either 😊

@myblacklab7

2 ай бұрын

Oppose sense or ship - it is so out of control that I think they are even sense or ing me when I tell people to oppose sense or ship. Those who refuse to fight for their freedoms are sure to lose them.

@crs11becausecrs10wastaken

2 ай бұрын

My comment to your comment was also deleted by KZread. The election is near.

MN taxes social security benefits! One of only 4 in the country.

@mpls1982

2 ай бұрын

2/3rds of retirees don't pay the tax.

@NorthStarKnifeReviews

2 ай бұрын

How dare they tax your welfare!!

@TimothyNeid

2 ай бұрын

@@NorthStarKnifeReviews You sir are WRONG. SS is not welfare. We all pay for it. Get educated.

@NorthStarKnifeReviews

2 ай бұрын

@@TimothyNeid it is absolutely welfare. Do you think we all don’t pay for other programs?? Social Security was originally a socialist proposal.

@user-xq8dq4di2m

Ай бұрын

It's double taxing mn taxes me like crazy state and real-estate. And my s.s. is taxed now that's taxing twice

I regret moving here! loved it 30 plus years ago, All the above discrimination crime high cost of living cold winters, and cliques.

@tomlund4951

2 ай бұрын

Okay den! Bbye!

Life long Minnesotan. Wish I could leave. Leadership is nuts here now. Not the state I grew up in. They are shielding the public from the high crimes in metro too (hard to look at real stats when you just don’t even deal with the crimes - at all). It’s nuts down there. Nothing like when I grew up there. Total gang wars right now. Shootings or murders nearly daily now. 4 police killed in just a few months (we have defunded them). It’s very sad to watch. And schools have TANKED. Now some have gang fights in hallways and have to close for days. And the homelessness is totally out of control. Encampments everywhere now. They are mostly drug dens. ODs constantly. We have vans going out now to give clean needles and Narcan. Last several months has really devolved here. It is SO sad to see as a life long citizen in a state I loved. 😔

@timtorkelson7201

2 ай бұрын

The far left on display....period!!

@dsch3241

Ай бұрын

@@timtorkelson7201of course, far left. Typical….

The worst thing about Minnesota is the mosquitoes

@Theassburger

22 күн бұрын

*The south laughs maniacally*

@chairlesnicol672

8 күн бұрын

@Alex, some types are big enough to dent cars, n one time when I set half my sandwich down one mosquito took off with it! LoL!!!

Minnesota Nice is not a compliment. I’ve lived in 6 states, 7 countries, been in Minnesota for the past 6 years. MN is by far the rudest place I have ever lived.

@bradhagen5060

Ай бұрын

Sorry to hear that

@sjhsieh007

27 күн бұрын

Should be called “Minnesota Nice-to-Your-Face”

@manualgearshift4965

27 күн бұрын

@@sjhsieh007100

@dudeguy7347

8 күн бұрын

maybe you're just an asshole

Problem number 1 you mentioned: I think is a Scandinavian thing. People I knew from Denmark were the same way. "An outgoing Lutheran is someone who stares at SOMEONE ELSES shoes."

Originally from New England. Moved to the Twin Cities back in '95. Experienced the coldest winter they had in over "100 years" in Feb, '96. The local temp got to -44 F, the high was -20 F. Since then, the winters these past 10+ years have become much more mild (climate change?). The night time temps in the winter might get to the teens below zero and seldom have any days with below zero temps now. The cold in the Twin Cities is a DRY cold as compared to the constant DAMP cold of the New England winters which I hated. Not planning on moving anytime soon.

The worst part of Minnesota is the Lake Effect! And the muggy heat with the high humidity and mosquitoes 🦟! Trust me I’ve lived here all my life!

I have a lot of experience with the Minnesota Nice thing. I've lived here my whole life, and have enjoyed MN for the most part, except it can be extremely difficult to make NEW friends. I'm in my mid 30s now, and am more of an introverted person who has never had a consistent friend group. I recently looked into what people from my high school and college graduating classes are doing these days. To my surprise, a very large portion of them married people they met in high school, still have the same friend group from high school, and even settled down and bought a house in the SAME CITY as their school! As others have said, people generally have nice exteriors, will go to great lengths to avoid arguments and discomforts, and we're actually one of the most charitable states in the country. However, trying to grow a friendship or relationship with an MN native beyond the surface level is going to be next to impossible. They're content only having their same small friend group for the rest of their lives, and will (politely) push away or ignore anyone trying to enter their circle

Lived in Minnesota for 38 years.....Zero regrets!!!!!

@drewmcgill5290

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, what’s with this clicky ass bait title. MN is a fantastic place to live.

Lived in MN most of my life (3 years in Texas and 1 in Colorado). Other than high taxes and 3 months in winter, it's a nice place to live. Just stay out of Minneapolis and the inner-ring suburbs and you'll be fine.

Can’t read all the comments so… One thing about the high taxes that wasn’t mentioned is all the public facilities we have in MN. Since we’ve retired we’ve been traveling a lot. It’s really noticeable how little some states (most states) have so little for their kids. The redder the state the less they have (particularly FL, AL, MS, LA, and TX). Literally no playgrounds for miles. And…. we don’t have kids! City parks, state parks, bike paths, etc. So yeah, we have higher taxes than most but the quality of life here is much better (at least for our lifestyle).

@thighble69

2 ай бұрын

literally this. we actually get something back for our tax dollars.

@MCGguitar698

2 ай бұрын

Minnesota is a welfare state, that's why the taxes are high.

@egg_bun_

2 ай бұрын

Yes! Facts! I moved here from Indiana, and there's barely any parks compared to Minnesota.

@tladoux

2 ай бұрын

It's called redistribution of wealth.

@usa91787

2 ай бұрын

Not true. I've traveled to 46 of the 50 states and I've seen plenty of parks and playgrounds in all of them. Maybe take off your blinders a bit. And if you come from a state that you say has none then ask yourself what kind of neighborhood or town an I in? Inner cities everywhere have them but they're gang infested. Just like some Minneapolis neighborhoods. And lots of small towns only have a playground at the elementary school. This state massively over taxes it's citizens. No amount of parks can help you when you're trying to raise a family and can't afford food and rent at the same time because your state wants to take as much as they can from you.

Having lived in Minnesota I have to agree with your assessment. The only thing I would add is winter driving. Depending on your commute you're going to have to add at least 15 minutes to your drive time. Also, if you need an activity during the winter, there's always curling. There's at least four curling rinks in the Twin Cities area.

@MovingToTheTwinCities

9 ай бұрын

Love the suggestion!

@jackdonkey22

9 ай бұрын

There's a few beginner friendly hockey leagues. Disc golf is awesome in the winter, no bugs or weeds, put a Christmas ribbon on the disc to not lose it.

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

Ай бұрын

the first ice/snow weather stay home and go to the mn DOT site that monitors accidents. People didn't use to drive so fast in the Twin Cities and now the first storm of the year is a total fender bender scenario. It's kind of fun but tragic.

Lived my whole 66 years in Minnesota. I am looking for a new state to move to. Minnesota is been on a long downward slide. Taxes crime being the biggest issues.

@marquezbrown70

28 күн бұрын

Read some surveys to find lower crime states (think there are only four states that have less crime than Minnesota, that means 46 states are WORSE than Minnesota). As far as taxes go to Nevada or Florida if you want to get low taxes (but both those states have much worse crime).

I lived here for 4 years. The way to make friends is finding other transplants and the Minnesotans that are from a town I never heard of lol. People in the cities are the Minnesota “nice”

We moved here from Texas almost a year and a half ago. Leaving TX was one of the best decisions but no place is perfect! I think this is a pretty accurate and honest account of Twin Cities. I will say that despite the drawbacks, we are getting a lot of what we need here and enjoy a lot of what the metro and larger region has to offer. We certainly feel safer here, both physical safety wise and politically. (We did almost freeze to death in our own home during the “freeze” 🙄 in Texas Feb ‘21. And crime is NOT lower in red states overall, so… I knew about “Minnesota Nice” before moving here and didn’t think it would be a big deal but I’m running into situations where I wish some people here would just be direct. Like, “just say no to me, I can take it! Don’t say yes and then resent me because you agreed to take extra steps that you really didn’t want to take just to be friendly to my face in the moment. I’m having to navigate this more than I thought I would and have to second guess where people really are in their heads, all the time and I don’t like it. I must seem like a jerk to people for being more direct in general 🤷🏻‍♂️ Anyway… I mean what I say but I’m not mean when saying it. That’s just always worked for me ok. Anyway I do think traffic can be annoying here but having lived in Las Vegas and traveled to Los Angeles and San Diego very often… now THAT traffic is trash. forget adding 15 minutes to your commute during rush hour… you need to add two hours or more sometimes. It’s totally miserable! So having experience driving through that, I find it easier to cope when traffic volume here is bad. I think the bigger problem on Twin Cities roads is terrible drivers. Now, I’ve lived in five states and there are bad drivers everywhere. In Vegas/SoCal it’s aggressive/risky/wild wild west on the roads. In Texas, it’s inconsiderate and lazy “go around me, I’ll block the way for as long as I want.” In Twin Cities the bad drivers are palpably angry and it can be raw anarchy on these streets with flagrant disregard for stop signs, pedestrians, traffic signals and right of way. So unnecessarily dangerous! This problem is way more frustrating to me than taking 35W or 100 from Uptown to Bloomington and back for work everyday. Anyway, thanks for the vid, man!!! It was really great to get your perspective on this stuff.

@Zak_How

4 ай бұрын

My wife and I are possibly trying to relocate somewhere in Minnesota from Florida. I'm excited and nervous. I was thinking of Brainerd area. My wife thinks Brainerd would be too small. I appreciate your info about the twin cities

@Klos1neMN

3 ай бұрын

​@@Zak_HowMaybe think about Duluth, MN? It's not completely a small city but is small enough where it can have a small town feel in some places, like the Lester Park or Woodland neighborhoods. Brainard is quite small if you are active and like different things to do on the weekends.

@robtriton

2 ай бұрын

Being a Texan and here in the twin cities on business. If one lives in a blue-majority city in Texas. [Austin, Dallas County, San Antonio, and El Paso]. The crime is higher in those cities. Imagine that! Democrat-majority cities always have higher crime rates. Crimes are higher in the twin cities than in other cities in Minnesota. In Portland, Oregon, a prominent blue city, crime, along with a massive transient population, is through the roof. However, in other smaller cities in Oregon, crime is lower. Where I reside in a more affluent suburb in North Texas, our police department and DA are tough on criminals and do not tolerate transients begging for money on street corners. Nope, they buy them a bus ticket to L.A., Vegas, Portland, Seattle, or Denver. Texans do not put up with armed criminals. We are armed to the teeth and know how to deal with them. Hence, you will never hear about massive crime rates in North Texas suburbs.

@lukeysandra

2 ай бұрын

You definitely need to be good at reading body language if you live in the upper Midwest. A lot of Scandinavian influence here, which means there are a lot of unspoken undertones to everything that’s being said. There are also a lot of odd unwritten rules like don’t say yes right away when offered something by a host for fear of coming off as too greedy; not taking the last slice of pie, or causing another to go out of their way to provide for you or serve you. It’s a complicated dance, which I believe involves some amount of guilt, or at least a desire to “not put someone out.” The good news is generationally it’s becoming less and less, and you will find that, especially in the suburbs with better school districts that are more attractive to live in, there is a good influence from other parts of the country and the world that help to dilute this odd and quaint way of socializing.

@usa91787

2 ай бұрын

If you fall over and even just lean to the left you'll be in Marxist paradise here.

If you do not want to pay taxes for having a clean and healthy state, move to Mississippi. You get what you pay for. We have the strongest economy in all of the upper mid west, if taxes determined everything, why is that.

@timtorkelson7201

3 ай бұрын

We're the 7th most taxed State in the nation! Last yr we had 18 Billion tax surplus! Love my State but can't stand the political scene!! Recently the MN Supreme Court ruled that your car is public property 🤬 look it up!

@arthurbrumagem3844

3 ай бұрын

50% of students can’t pass 10th grade standards

@sunshineb-d5006

2 ай бұрын

There isn't much here! To do, especially in the winter and it looks so Ruff in Minneapolis now not pretty once it was, all the homeless people tents I do live outside of Minneapolis when I come for church it's a sad looking city.

i appreciate the honesty here, thank you for putting this together

The property taxes are so much lower in Minnesota than Wisconsin. Plus, the roads and public services are a lot better. We pay more income tax, but we feel the benefits of it. It doesn’t feel like being ripped off by the government. Also, the traffic is not bad. It is much better than a lot of places of similar size. Public transport is great for commuting to work in downtown. Every city this size has traffic problems. You need to move to a pretty rural area to escape it, no city has notably better rush hour traffic, and if you do that you can’t have the large city amenities. It is the same consideration to make in deciding to live in a rural place or not.

I'm glad you have compassion towards the homeless.

@CentristDad155

2 ай бұрын

This guy is based in Wayzata and mentioned the west metro. Little or no homelessness out there/here.

@tladoux

2 ай бұрын

They are not all really homeless. Many choose to be homeless and move south in the winter. MN is becoming the land of peddlers, even in rural areas, Rogers, Zimmerman, etc.

I live in one of the nicest neighborhoods in Minneapolis and we have had 3 cars stolen out of driveways this year. This never used to happen. Not to mention the break ins to cars as well and a handful of house break ins. This NEVER happened before 2020. I’d say the biggest problem is an extreme liberalism in leadership that focuses more on removing car lanes and replacing them with bike lanes instead of addressing the crime issues. I’m liberal, but not extreme liberal. The pendulum needs to swing back closer to center.

@Mplsgurl

2 ай бұрын

This been happening for decades. Maybe just not for you 😂 you also just coast over the fact that ALL other crimes have had historic lows.

It’s a Scandinavian thing. Superficially polite and non confrontational with strangers/deep conversations with people they’ve known for a long time. When it comes to not making friends later in life, it’s also a funny extension of politeness: they have all the friends they need and have no room in their schedule for more. If they took you on as a new friend they would have to give less time to someone else which is ‘rude,’ OR they wouldn’t be able to devote much time to you as a ‘new’ friend which is also ‘rude.’ Things are much the same in Sweden/Norway etc.

Minnesota is okay…. The twin cities are a train wreck and the taxes are ridiculous.

I currently live in small rural college town in west central area Minnesota. I love it in the outstate (outside of the Twin Cities) because of the "laid back life" and quietness. I ride my bike to work and pretty much anywhere if the weather is "suitable". I was born and raised in St. Paul, which I visit family there once or twice a month. Winter this past season was "great" if you don't like the cold or snow. It wasn't much a "typical" winter. The most challenging part of living in the "prairies" of west-central area Minnesota is the winds! Weather can be more "challenging" (blizzards) compared to the Twin Cities.

Well, you can't make "new old " friends, as most ex-pats know. And most likely, wherever one moves or relocates, you'll be around other ex-pats with no real roots or history in the local community, either. Authentic change comes from within - not from without - and while a new venue can seem fresh and inviting for a time, all the old problems will eventually re-emerge if the move is nothing more than cosmetic, surfacey. It's not the place, folks, it's the person. 😊

@manualbatt1648

2 ай бұрын

Minneapolis people are WACK ASF 🤣😎😎

12:45 In the schools with lower performing students, there's a huge absentee problem.

As a pass South Dakotan that has been a Minnesota resident for a year now. The income tax was definitely noticeable. But! Reduced my spending before coming here. So adjusting to that slightly small take home. I'm doing fine.

Fingers crossed for an actual good winter. This past winter was pretty lackluster.

I've lived in MN most of my life.....looking to get out.....for good!

@surbana9803

26 күн бұрын

Buh-bye!

I stumbled on this video and you did a pretty good job! Ok from my perspective as a west coaster living here for eight years is this, Positives, schools compared to CA schools is fantastic! Although things a sliding in areas but good overall. Housing compared to CA, yeah it’s better but going up here as well. The Twin Cities has a lot of awesome restaurants and things to do, pretty good experiences too. Although we need more restaurants outside in the suburbs. Car scene is fantastic here and I have met the most chill people at those events. Ok negative, most people not all do not want to get to know outsiders. This is true and weird imo. Us west coasters, we are chill and easy going. Here stipulations on if they ‘know’ you even if you buy a home and are cordial to your neighbors. And then they ask “why are you here?!” It’s really rude and off coming to me and honestly I don’t play with that ish. And I am not going to ‘work’ so you accept me lol! I do thankfully have an awesome family and hobbies so I am good until I move from here. Now I have met some really cool folks here but that is the exception living in MN. And I have lived all over the USA so I do have a well balanced approach when making opinions about said places. Also most MN people I have met outside and not living in MN are really chill, probably because they know their home state behavior won’t fly anywhere else.

Born and raised in Minneapolis but I've been all over the South from Texas to Florida and Georgia up to Virginia and there is a silent but prevalent segregation in the twin cities and Chicago. People won't show you who they really are up here which cultivates strange discomfort you can never quite put your finger on. Minnesota nice. They don't want to talk, they don't want to hang out, they don't want to be your friend, but they pretend that they do. Will ask how you're doing but don't really want to know. Anything more than a one-word answer just gets awkward. Will give you directions to anywhere but their house. The same goes for the facade of progressiveness, it's purely superficial.On the north side of Minneapolis where I grew up the tension is palpable. The effects of violent crime, drugs, gangs, poverty and homelessness are everywhere. If you can afford to live in the affluent western suburbs your experience will be vastly different than if you cannot, I abandoned the city for a very rural area and when I retire I will be leaving for good

@sunshineb-d5006

2 ай бұрын

I agree with you totally I wasn't born uphere been here for 30+ years now that my husband and I kid's are grown we are out of here!

Ty, very honest answers! Appreciate it!

Minnesota Nice also makes it difficult to work with people remotely that live there. You don’t know there is a problem until you are about to get written up. lol

@P8860

8 ай бұрын

Yeah I got hired as a contractor for this digital marketing company and they let me go after 2 weeks without telling me. My counselor called and told me they said to don't come in lol

@myblacklab7

2 ай бұрын

I could totally see that. I had a downstairs neighbor who told me "You were so loud last night I almost called the cops." I was like, "Why didn't you just ask us to keep it down?" although I didn't actually say that, of course, because that would be waaaay too direct. smh

Mpls is very much a surface topical disease...Nice to you on the surface, but underneath am itchy rash..It's not like ocean front states..

@williamfeldner9356

4 ай бұрын

I would agree…… passive aggressive personality disorders abound here, moved back after 35 years in Washington….. what a disappointment……

@denise2433

2 ай бұрын

Me too. Moved back after living in CA for 35 years. The passive aggressive disorder is everywhere and the main reason my current goal is to move away and never come back. I’m not a mean girl in junior high, and wasn’t way back when I was actually 12 years old either.

Great video! It really helps me in my decision to go back to the Twin Cities instead of choosing somewhere else.

@MovingToTheTwinCities

7 ай бұрын

Welcome back! Let us know if you need any help!

@herbb8547

3 ай бұрын

You want to come back here? 😳 Why?

MN double taxed, taxed when you go out to eat or entertainment , 65k after state, federal, Medicare , social security and don't forget medical. Commissions forget about it 50% taxed. 65k salary turns to 37k real quick. Rent is outrageous so you pretty much live off of 800 month. The people that work especially singles support the non workers.

@amyeastman8764

3 ай бұрын

ITA!!!!! I’m a single, working class female and don’t make much money but I do make slightly too much to qualify for all the “income restricted” housing. So that leaves me options in more crime ridden neighborhoods and dated apartments with zero amenities. These income restricted properties dominate the safer areas and also dominate the apartment search process. When I look for places in my budget about 70% are income restricted and that leaves me with maybe 30% being an option for me. Unless you’re wealthy or down and out minnesota won’t care about you. As a single, working class, shift worker, childless female, I am overlooked in this state. Now if I were a single mom of 4, jobless with little ambition to find a job, I’d be cared for.

@herbb8547

3 ай бұрын

@amyeastman8764 You can thank the high rents to the high property taxes placed on rental properties. The landlord has no choice but to pass the property taxes on to the renter. In some cities in MN, taxes are as much as 50% of monthly rent. When politicians say they want the "rich" to pay their fair share, they mean anyone with a job trying to take care of themselves without government help.

@hibbo1351

3 ай бұрын

MN in general supports the 'non-workers' in welfare states, as we pay more in to the federal govt than we receive. Don't want Mississippi babies to go hungry now do we?

@herbb8547

3 ай бұрын

@hibbo1351 I imagine you are talking about the gas tax? Federal income taxes go to fund Federal programs, which are mostly entitlements.The Federal gas tax is sent back to the states to maintain the interstate highways. The larger states get more of that than the small states because they have more interstate highway miles to maintain. Federal welfare dollars do tend to go more to the poorest states. If a state is not receiving as much Federal welfare dollars, it's because they don't have as many poor people.

@herbb8547

3 ай бұрын

@hibbo1351 No state gets back as much as it sends in to the Federal government. It doesn't work that way.

There are some hidden expenses due to the weather in Minnesota - lots of auto expenses (car batteries die more frequently, the salt on the roads causes a lot of rust, etc.), and possibly also homeowner expenses, not to mention the cost of good winter clothing. If at all possible, one will want a garage, although for some odd reason a lot of Minnesotans fill their garages with everything except a motor vehicle. I have at least one friend who moved out of Minneapolis due to the rising crime rate. It is an extreme anti-smoking state, and smoking outside really sucks when it's below zero with -20 windchill, which happens more often than even most Minnesotans care to admit. Winter usually runs from November 1st to at least May 1st, if you consider freezing or near-freezing temperatures "winter," and Vitamin D supplementation is a must, especially for those with darker skin pigmentation. In smaller towns, drugs and alcohol are often a big problem - a town with a population of 100 might have two bars and a liquor store. That drinking scene is bleak, if you ask me, and I'd say that in certain social circles, over-drinking is much more socially acceptable than being a non-drinker. I've had someone offer to buy me a drink, then rudely retract the offer when I said I wanted a non-alcoholic drink. Mainstream Minnesota culture is pretty safe and polite, if not particularly warm or welcoming, but I'm not a fan of all of the subcultures that exist in the Cities - gangs do exist there, and some folks have a giant chip on their shoulder. Minneapolis is pretty typical for America in terms of the crime rate, and St. Paul also has sketchy areas. It's gorgeous in the summer, but if you want to know what Minnesota is really like, visit during the 7 months of winter, because you'll be spending more than half your life in cold weather, if you live in Minnesota.

If you are going to live in Minnesota Duluth is the place to be. Beautiful landscapes, fresh air, safe, small commutes, awesome restaurants, thanks to all the tourism. Year round activities and things to do but bring your snow shovel.

@66block84

3 ай бұрын

I grew up in Duluth and moved to the Twin Cities in the early 80's, got tired of getting laid off. Now retired.

@herbb8547

2 ай бұрын

UMD is one of the most dangerous universities for young women to attend. The rate of female student disappearances is one of the highest in the nation. The crime rate in Duluth only trails Bemidji and Minneapolis. Duluth is a very dangerous place to live.

@judasplow25

2 ай бұрын

@@herbb8547 That is garbage!!

@herbb8547

2 ай бұрын

@@judasplow25 That is fact. Look it up. See how many young women have disappeared from UMD. And look at the crime rates.

@TedTedness-wu4vb

2 ай бұрын

@@herbb8547 Could be the Meth heads and inbreeding

Yes PLEASE everyone stay away. We want to keep it green and nice. :) Not Chicago Jr

@tladoux

2 ай бұрын

People from IL are flooding here. Soon to be the next Chicago in the North.

@hibbo1351

2 ай бұрын

@@tladoux no it won't. Most can't handle the weather. That will never change

@hibbo1351

2 ай бұрын

@@tladoux "flooding". Minnesota had a 0.7% population increase last year. WTF are you talking about? I've lived here 42 of my 54 years and can't recall ever meeting anyone who transplanted from Chicago. Any chance you have data to back up your claim? Seems like bulshit

@beck204

Ай бұрын

@@hibbo1351I think he means Chicago people going to north Minneapolis. Then they take a free ride from North to downtown and harass the normal people.

@jeffreyhunnewell1652

Ай бұрын

More than happy to stay away from MN if yall will keep your socks with sandals out of the South.

It looks like you did little to no research prior to your move. Why don’t you leave and go somewhere else if MN is so bad?

Minnesota is not all Minneapolis. As far as traffic, Minneapolis/St Paul compared to Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas/Ft worth, Denver, Nashville? I could go on and on. No comparison. I avoid rush hours as much as possible, 7 to 9 am and 3 to 5 pm.

@crayolascents

2 ай бұрын

Minneapolis and St. Paul have a voting block that completely dominates the remainder of the state so yes Minneapolis is the same as Minnesota. For the rest of you (not the OP who is obviously a local), make sure you have all your virtue stickers plastered on the back of your prius and you'll fit right in. And your anti-semite scarves for when you shop at whole foods.

2:56 Duluth and surrounding areas have the same issues. I think Rochester and St. Cloud have some of those same things. 4:25 how about that lovely smell of fermenting fall leaves after the snow melts in October. 😂😂😂 6:51 Minnesota has some of the best museums, theatres, the ren fest, there are just so many things to do year round. In the winter go sledding it’s a great time. 9:30 the state needs to make its mind up on tobacco, public transportation vs cars, they forcing public transportation in one city and the other city is all about cars. 10:31 air quality has become awful due to those forest fires. 11:50 the light pollution from the cities in suburban areas that are 30-50 minutes away. It’s insane to see orange clouds at night from the city lights. 14:23 the cost of living is comparable to the seven cities in commonwealth of VA. You can also use the military BAH lcalculator too. E-5 with dependents tells you the most expensive it will be.

If you are a transplant in MN I would encourage you to first seek out other transplants as they will understand what you are going through. It can be lonely. It took several years but we finally moved to a neighborhood where everyone genuinely wants to get together, hang out and get to know one another. There is hope!

Welcome to Somalia! The good old days of Norwegian and Swedish nice died 30 years ago. Makes me sad.

@charlesbullghost5491

2 ай бұрын

Oh, you must be talking about little Mogadishu, of Minneapolis Mn downtown riverside and cedars very rugged - very ugly buildings there! Yes, I can see why! Somali gangmembers against the other gangmembers in Minneapolis minnesota at the half past dark time! My great inspiring wisdom for today. Have a great fabulous wonderful day.😀

@user-fw5tf2nm5f

2 ай бұрын

I SYMPATHIZE AND ADMIRE YOUR TRUTH AND INTEGRITY. ''FAMILY FIRST CHARITY STARTS AT HOME''. Said By Actor Peter Breck.

@Mplsgurl

2 ай бұрын

I love my Somali neighbors. Then again I’m Irish, and all the Swedes and Norwegians called my family names and thought less of us too.

@user-fw5tf2nm5f

2 ай бұрын

GHEE I WONDER WHY. MAYBE THEY DON'T LIKE HYEANAS WHO EAT PEOPLES PETS.@@Mplsgurl

@rinner2801

2 ай бұрын

How do you function with such a tiny mind?

Superficial is so spot on. If someone is upset with you, they will never tell you, they will simply act passive aggressive toward you. I cant wait to move, only one more year here. Besides the people, winter's are horrific and summer's are so buggy that it's impossible to enjoy them.

I agree with you on the weather too freaking cold horrible Winters

If you are cold, you are just not dressed correctly.

If you're conservative, do not buy a place within the seven county metro area. Oh and those cheap property taxes. Yeah they'll throw on 2x levies and never take it away so there goes that too. And if you have any vices they tax the heck out of those. Nicotine packs are $9 all day across the border in Wisconsin $3. And that Mn nice picked up and moved to South Dakota years ago. Oh you don't believe me. Ask one of your neighbors for help or someone you don't know.

@SUPERSORNO

9 ай бұрын

Must be from different areas. I have never had issues with neighbors helping or a neighbor asking for help. I have always had good luck with that.

@TheSlashSlingingSlasher

9 ай бұрын

1000% agree. They say all our welcome and hate has no home. Unless you are a conservative or black and of you are a black conservative, you NEED to move.

@twozer0x

7 ай бұрын

You sound like a boomer

@thecitiots

7 ай бұрын

@@twozer0x I feel like one some days but a bit too young.

@TheSlashSlingingSlasher

6 ай бұрын

@voidaccount12345 The twin cities in general are falling apart due to the anti police culture, lack of assimilation from Somali community, district judges letting criminals free, etc etc I can go on and on and then there are the taxes

Minnesota nice is not fake. I’m from mpls and currently live north of state. In mpls yes rude and such. Outside of mpls & stp is Minnesota nice for the most part, especially up in the northern area.

No place is all sunshine and roses

@herbb8547

3 ай бұрын

And here in MN we also have very high taxes, high crime, ever decreasing freedoms, and horrible winters.

Awesome video! I found every reason you mentioned extremely true.

I would say the air quality index never reaches 200. It can reach 150 for a couple days, but never 200-300. I live in Richfield.

Did I mention the "call to prayer" multiple times daily?

@tomlund4951

2 ай бұрын

Well…

@mcgowanjamie52

2 ай бұрын

What is that?

@d.w.w.sweetz3008

Ай бұрын

​@@mcgowanjamie52Muslims

I have lived here for 26 years. I call it Minnesota polite.

Minnesota has open enrollment which sucks when you are living in a better school district. The open enrollee families don't pay the property taxes of the host school district.

Minnesota nice means that they’ll give you directions to anywhere except their house

I live in Minnesota and bad politicians are what makes Minnesota a bad place to live. Walz is a big part of the problem. Wish we could split off and join south dakota.

@arthurbrumagem3844

3 ай бұрын

Include Ellison and the Lt Gov in that . Ellison is a hateful Muslim and the Lt Governor is part native American and is hateful as well

@duanehamdorf2228

2 ай бұрын

I live in Northern Minnesota now. I hate what walz aka pos is doing to our state

@nowherebound2908

2 ай бұрын

Why don’t you move there?

@MrSteeDoo

2 ай бұрын

Get going.

@rinner2801

2 ай бұрын

You can leave for South Dakato anytime you wish, we won't miss you...

We have not had a lot of snow the last few years. I moved here when I was a kid in the late 80's and the last few years have been depressing as someone who enjoys winter.

@jcb86-a

12 күн бұрын

2022-2023 was #3 most snow. 2018 was also heavy. 2010 collapse of Metrodome due to record snow.

I left Muslimsota as soon as I could!!

@deekang6244

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

Still better than California 😂

@dsonnek7781

2 ай бұрын

Minnesota is becoming the California of the Midwest.

Don't come too many immigrants.

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

Ай бұрын

Yes lots of Swedes and Norwegians for sure. Also the German Colonial association committed genocide against the Dakota.

Enjoyed the video - - but first thing I notice >>> Books on the shelf are all stored by color!! Wow

So ... Are you trying to sell homes?? Traffic is everywhere in every city, as is weather.

I was born in Minnesota, went to Norway, then Ukraine now thinking to return back to the USA.

Having grownup in MN but now living in Dallas I agree with your view on taxes not crime, homelessness and traffic. In Dallas you don't ask if the is an accident on Hwy 75 but where is the accident

@rebajeanforever3700

7 ай бұрын

Lmbo, on crime!

All the negative comments are OK by me. See ya! Bye......

Its more easy to get around Minneapolis MN. Then Chicago Illinois a very large vast ctiy of very hard of no perfect transportation of cars and busses there! You can park your car in s parking ramp downtown Minneapolis mn. An enjoyable very fun walk throughout the longest skywalkways system of the entire world! The 🏆record of more then eighty miles of length! A perfect walk or to see through the windows of long narrow tunnels of pure lovely perfection of total successful greatnesss of very true perfect structures. You can avoid any traffic worries and very dangerous criminal activities there! The building of very beautiful prosperity was made from the 1970's to the everlasting future. My great inspiring wisdom for today. Have a great fabulous wonderful day.😀

There are NO taxes on food or clothes. Fyi.

The cities here have gotten worse, tons of homeless people off every highway exit asking for money

@OtisChronicButter

Ай бұрын

That's everywhere in this country bub

Winter 2023-2024? What winter? lol. Also? No taxes on clothing, groceries or medicine.

@herbb8547

3 ай бұрын

This was a very unusual winter. We haven't had a winter like this since 1979/1980. We had one of the worst winters on record last year, 2022/2023, and many snowfall records were set throughout Minnesota.

@amyeastman8764

3 ай бұрын

Right?

Lived in Twin Cities for 20 yrs. Left 20 years ago for a job. Returned to Mpls/StPaul last year and could not believe the horrible decline in both downtowns. Dangerous, ugly vagrancy, few businesses or restaurants remain. Minnesotans now realize that they went too far into woke virtue baloney, including Defund Police. The twin cities won't come back to their former vibrancy. All life has moved from downtown Mpls to the west suburbs, away from vagrancy and crime. Sad example of extremist progressive ideology gone wrong.

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

Ай бұрын

"According to a report issued by the Economic Policy Institute in 2010, Minneapolis led the nation in having the widest unemployment disparity between African-American and white residents. This remains true in 2018. And disparities also exist in nearly every other measurable social aspect, including of economic, housing, safety and health outcomes, between people of color and indigenous people compared with white people. Take, for example, the income disparity: White non-Hispanic residents in Minneapolis make approximately three times the income of black and American Indian residents; the median income in 2016 for white non-Hispanics was approximately $65,000, while the median incomes for blacks and American Indians were $20,871 and $22,476, respectively. " yeah maybe the schools should never been integrated since it made people more aware of the racial wealth disparities.

Schools are generally what you make of them. My daughters went to a school system with a bad reputation. One is a surgeon, one is a professional and coach. Too many Americans say they value education but pit little effort into getting one. We have devalued education for the last forty to fifty years in the interest of cheap labor.

i like minnesota except for the twin cities. one big negative point is their taxes are very high.

taxes? if you want to live in a dump, go to a low tax state. if you want quality public services, this is the place to be.

High taxes, homeless tent cities, high rents and corporate owns everything and workers are miserable

@NorthStarKnifeReviews

8 ай бұрын

😅

@mrparts

8 ай бұрын

Stop watching Fox News 😂

@NorthStarKnifeReviews

7 ай бұрын

@@voidaccount12345 😂 wrong

The homeless problem is very confusing considering the deadly weather. Any thoughts on why? It’s seems contradictory

I love Minnesota my home state but Minneapolis/St Paul is a absolute disaster !!!!! It's absolutely horrible but if you move anywhere outside the metro it's a fantastic place ...

Thanks Waltz

don't move here..., we like it the way it is!

I’ve never been to Minnesota but would like to because I’m a huge Prince fan and I make my living on the Mississippi River. I’d love to go to the headwaters just because it runs alongside my hometown and is over 1/2 mile wide. I’m not labeling all Minnesotans but my junior high school orchestra teacher was from the twin cities and she was an accomplished cellist. All I remember is she never passed up a chance to remind us of how we weren’t as sophisticated and appreciative of arts and education here because we were in the South and that LSU was an inferior university academically despite the fact many of our parents were LSU Alumni and the campus was 30 city blocks from our school. She also never passed up an opportunity to remind us of the shameful history of our state even though our school was the academic honors magnet school with kids from all over the city and it was very racially mixed with almost no tension amongst the students because everyone there were college bound and it was quite a shining example of excellence in public education. We had poor kids from the section 8 projects up to the wealthiest Jewish kids whose parents didn’t want them attending the private Catholic schools here and everyone in between. I thought she was fake with her niceness toward other adults.

Every single item on this list (except the miserable winters) would be easily solved with a quick and permanent reduction in Democrat voters. Democrat politicians are a scourge on this otherwise lovely state. They keep doing the same things over and over (raising Taxes which they spend foolishly) each time expecting a different result. Seems crazy to me.

@silkyjay869

3 ай бұрын

Yep! This guy had zero balls to point out probably the number 1 reason

@nowherebound2908

2 ай бұрын

Just move to Iowa then

@tjw4947

2 ай бұрын

@@nowherebound2908 It's under consideration...

@cglasford1

2 ай бұрын

The problem is the republican party always wants to try and sell their political stance on stupid stuff that is irrelevant like abortion, gay rights, weed laws...., just leave that hot button bs off the discussion table and focus on a fiscal conservative agenda, fixing the infrastructure, lowering taxes and unemployment and they would win in a land slide, every election. Same thing at the national level.

Sales tax is not on everything. Clothing is tax exempt. Food is exempt from taxes. Since have a higher taxes we also have great schools and infrastructure including roads, bridges, utilities, etc. You see kids playing outside year-round. The four seasons are awesome. Winter is GREAT if you embrace it. Don't hide inside! Sled, skate, snowmobile, ski (both downhill and cross country). I love winter! We don't have many days under +10. Temps below +10 come and go, and when you have a few cold days you can be sure the temps will rebound. I love it when I can see kids playing hockey on the frozen pond in the back of my home! I lived in Chicago -- believe me, the traffic is not bad in the Twin Cities! Having lived in Chicago (as I mentioned) and Texas, I am happy to be back in Minnesota.

I was born, raised and still live in Minnesota, don’t move here, I have been trying to escape for years, unfortunately the taxes and prices are so high I have become a prisoner of Minnesota, it’s cold as hell in the winter and I mean cold, a cold you people from the south could never imagine, do you know what negative 30 feels like? No? You don’t want to, no winter jacket stops that kind of cold, even people from Alaska say “holy f it’s cold in Minnesota” worst drivers in the nation, pair that with ice, good luck, it’s beautiful up north but the rest of the state pretty boring, oh I almost forgot about summer, it’s like spending your whole day in a sauna, if you love chaffing, cold torture, car accidents and have a lot of money then this is the place for you, I feel bad for the migrants moving here, they hear Minnesota nice, really they should drop the N on nice, on the bright side it makes you tough, there are not many climates I can’t handle, I mean the only place worse would be Antarctica or the Arctic circle, oh one more thing, summer, road construction season, road construction everywhere, it’s not great.

@Hedgehog3342

2 ай бұрын

same here as a fellow born and raised minnesotan.

@sunshineb-d5006

2 ай бұрын

I agree with you!

@xtone810

2 ай бұрын

Only evil and losers live In Minnesota.

You’re spot on with the ppl getting there trying to meet ppl extremely hard to get housing help I don’t think the crime is bad and I’m from LA I came from St. Louis both are worse in crime