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Originally Posted by Ruger2506
I recommend it. But you have to get away from the Twin Cities. Minneapolis/St. Paul and their suburbs are not MN. In fact they take away from MN and are a blight on our great state. MN is a beautiful state full of rich natural history and sights. As well as the outstanding rural people who call MN home. Unlike the horrors you see coming from the Twin Cities on the news feeds.
You won't find a true Minnesotan who claims the Twin Cities to be a positive part of MN or even a representative of MN culture, value and lifestyles.
Kind of like FL I suppose. The Villages, Miami, Tampa, etc are not a true representative of FL culture and lifestyle. I'd suspect any big city anywhere in the country is all the same.
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True. As I often tell people, "The Villages isn't Florida. It is New York with palm trees".
The comments about the Twin Cities in the quoted post is right on. The Minnesota State Fair, which is held in St. Paul, represents an island of sanity and traditional values surrounded by a vast sea of anything but. I go there often--going next month, as a matter of fact--but aside from flying in and out of Minneapolis and seeing my daughter in Hastings I'll be giving that particular sea a wide berth.