Do you like Minnesota?

cswain12000 · Mar 26, 2005

stumbled onto this site.....i used to live in northern mpls....then moved to st.paul........cathedral hill area.......most beautiful neighborhoods i have ever seen. I used to take walks at night and discover new allies, parks and coffee shops. GOD I MISS IT!!!!! The only negative thing was the cost of living.
The other thing is that post above is right- once you discover the twin cities you will be a lifer..........or in my case=- a wanna be lifer. I plan to move back- prob. rochester......once i am done with school and have some money saved.............hope you twin citiens enjoy what you got.....oh ya, i miss caribou on grand ave too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-krissy

If you end up in Rochester, be careful about working at Mayo--they are not the nicest organization to work for...at least in the TwinCities you have options. Mayo can treat their employees however badly they want to because they think they are great and all and because there aren't alot of options in Rochester.

meadowmuffin · Oct 9, 2005

I'm a transplant from central NJ 4 years ago, and I must say I LOVE this state. Think taxes are high here? HA! In a small NJ town with much industry, I pay $4000 for a 60x100 lot tiny house 2 BR 1 BA no garage. I now have a 40 acre hobby farm, but do not get a break on taxes as I don't generate at least $1000 a year from the farm. Still my taxes are less than $1000. I pay 1/3 for car insurance here also. The cost of living here is much lower. But the best thing is the life. The air is so much cleaner, water is drinkable, and one can see the stars at night. Not possible back in NJ. The pay is slightly lower, about $2-3 an hour less. But in NJ I worked at one of the largest hospital corporations in the state. Now I work in a 50 bed rural hospital. It sure does get cold here in winter with lots of snow. But summer isn't as brutal as it is back east. Life is much better here. IMO. :lol2:

sjb2005 · Oct 9, 2005

Minnesota. I was a chicago transplant at 18 yrs. and have been here over 20. My 3 sons were born and raised in northern MN. We left with family in tow to Las Vegas for 1 1/2 years. I totally was homesick for MN and so were my kids. My personal opinion is that Minnesota is the greatest state. I lived in a few other states and have traveled to many. Lots of nursing perks here.

Taxes do suck here. But people shop here from other states because clothing is tax free. So are other things. I like to shop at Byerly's and Target. Even the fact that Las Vegas has no state tax, it was no trade off.

Any part of the state is good. When I moved here, I was amazed at the lack of racial prejudice.

Minnesota, It's quirky, some have their own language, there is tics, deer and bear to deal with. I stongly to encourage you to come to a fish fry and my favorite "The Minnesota great get together(state fair)". People you don't know will wave to you. Potlucks and get togethers are a part of life hear. It"s strong community with individual participants. It definitely grows on you.

Hodge · Oct 10, 2005

Hey shellyjellybelly the reason why Minnesota is a great state is because of the investment people have made here!!! I look at taxes as the price we pay for civilization (at least when they are invested and used wisely). Anyhow, I don't think I could live anywhere else. My former job required me to travel, for extended periods of time, to many other states and I was always glad to come back home.....

Stand Up, Keep Fighting - Senator Paul Wellstone

sjb2005 · Oct 10, 2005

Your are right on. A friend once told me before I moved that no one leaves Minnesota for too awful long, they all eventually come back. See, Minnesota is full of very wise people.

suebird3 · Oct 10, 2005

Husband was born in Cook Co., Ill......his folks owned a place on the GunFlint Trail.

I had gone to the Twin Cities when I was 3....can't remember squat, except I saw "Ice Station Zebra". :uhoh3:

We just went in August, as MIL wanted her ashes scattered "up there." Nice place, except I am NOT fond of sub zero weather. Bad enough I deal with fall out from Chicago.

sjb2005 · Oct 10, 2005

Nothing like -30 degress and a wind chill of -80. One refreshing breath and you choke and cough a bit. My kids like it when we throw a cup of hot water out the patio door...It makes a loud boom and vanishes into the air. That's why I love Minnesota, it's a learning environment. Winters are a good reason to snuggle up with someone special and get warm.

edsxr61 · Oct 12, 2005

I'm a hybrid (father from Minnesota and mother from Alabama), but I live near Atlanta, Ga. at this time. I have been coming to Minnesota for about 5 yr. since I discovered family members near Duluth. I fell in love with the area and had to buy some acreage with the hopes of living on it someday. Like the others have said, you will really love the state once you visit it. I really can't speak from personal experience about the winters, but I have kept up with the temps and weather conditions and sometimes the conditions during the winters are "interesting". My brother has invited me up this coming winter season to experience snowmobiling personally. I am currently researching the prospect of working as a nurse in the Duluth/Superior area and have found the advice of some of the folks on this board to be very helpful.

sjb2005 · Oct 12, 2005

try St. Mary's....I likes that place when I went to a workshop there.

RN34TX · Oct 12, 2005

Your are right on. A friend once told me before I moved that no one leaves Minnesota for too awful long, they all eventually come back. See, Minnesota is full of very wise people.

Wrong!

I heard that same song and dance about "You'll be back because no one has our quality of life" spiel.

I left years ago and would NEVER move back.

The land of 10,000 taxes in the Arctic Circle with a dismal nursing job market to boot, y'all can have it.

To each their own, I guess.

To be fair, I'll say this:

MN has a strong nursing union for the TC hospitals and much of the state is very scenic with beautiful lakes everywhere you look.

Minneapolis is a very clean and well kept city by most standards, with a thriving arts community, as well as having a reputation for being open-minded and tolerant.

But for me, it's a nice place to visit but I'd never want to live there again.

Hodge · Oct 13, 2005

Like I said, taxes are the price we pay civilizaton. Taxes are an investment in our country, our future and children - I could never figure out why people cannot fathom that........

RN34TX · Oct 16, 2005

Like I said, taxes are the price we pay civilizaton. Taxes are an investment in our country, our future and children - I could never figure out why people cannot fathom that........

I hear what you're saying.

It's not the fact that I'm paying taxes, I'm a little confused as to where the money ends up.

In TX, I pay less tuition to a state school than what I paid 10 years ago in MN.

At the same time, no state taxes are taken out of my check in TX like in MN.

Where are all of these tax dollars going?

Earlier someone posted negative things about living in MN and I didn't want to chime in and agree because I didn't want it to turn into a hateful thread but.......

It's no secret that MN attracts people who don't want to work for a living due to it's generous welfare system.

They want to model their local government from Scandanavian ideologies which works great in Norway and Sweden.

The problem is that in the Scandanavian countries, the vast majority of people have a strong work ethic.

They take advantage of the socialized system in order to get back on their feet when a financial blow has been dealt to them. It's not meant to be a permanent solution to have the government support them throughout life.

Meanwhile some MN residents, particularly transplants from other areas, don't see it that way. A socialized system doesn't work in the U.S. because there are too many people here who just don't want to work and think it's someone else's responsibility to support them and their family.

Thus, an already financially strained nursing student's tuition keeps climbing, state taxes are collected out of their check every week, property taxes continue to soar making homebuying a mere dream in Minneapolis even on an RN's salary, and yet I was told time and again that these taxes made a better quality of life in MN.

Better quality of life for who??