hawkdrummer1
Well-Known Member
The people from the Twin Cities have the biggest god damned inferiority complex out of anyone who has ever walked the Earth. It is truly amazing. "Um, hey people from San Francisco and New York, you should know that we are not some flyover hicks. Just last year we elected the first gender nonbinary woman of color as the head of streets and sanitation of any major city in the US! See, we're soooo progressive just like you. Please tell me I'm cool, please tell me I'm cool."
I live here and generally speaking, I like it apart from the chill. There are much worse cities. (and there are plenty of places in Iowa you couldn't pay me to live...despite my love for "home"). Every state has the good and bad to varying degrees.
BUT, the point is...what you say above is dead on OKeefe. There are some great people, but there are also a ton of emotionally constipated inferiority complexes and self-righteous virtue signalers. (sometimes in the same body). You'll never meet a more conflicted populus. We're progressive but intolerant, we're folksy yet urban. We're "Minnesota nice" (which is code for passive aggressive). I think it's the Scandinavian legacy.
Mpls/St Paul is an interesting study. Now that all the kids are out of school, we're looking for a warmer base sometime soon.