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ROWAN: please tell us about living in Minneapolis?
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Date: March 29th, 2006 8:46 PM Author: poppy ceo how were the people. hyou said you lived there for a while? for what? would you ever want to live there for a while? how are the women? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460200) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 8:47 PM Author: histrionic pink sanctuary hairy legs "(I heart Loving v. Virginia)"
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Date: March 29th, 2006 8:49 PM Author: avocado tanning salon Minneapolis = highest % of Scandinavians = best place to live (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460224) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 8:54 PM Author: disrespectful misunderstood location the people are kind of mean actually. It's different than the rest of the midwest (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460274) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 8:55 PM Author: zippy passionate police squad dilemma More cliquish than mean. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460285) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 8:59 PM Author: poppy ceo cliquish how? how does this compare to chicago and nyc? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460302) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:01 PM Author: zippy passionate police squad dilemma I think people tend to make their friends a little earlier in life there than in some larger cities.
It's not much like New York. It's a different kind of city layout, vastly smaller, etc. I don't know Chicago well enough to comment. |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:03 PM Author: Stimulating milky station It's not a melting pot. Most have lived there for their entire lives and have had friends since before the 8th grade.
They aren't mean, they are more european when it comes to making friends.
Once you make them, they coudln't be nicer. |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:06 PM Author: zippy passionate police squad dilemma Yeah, that's a better way of stating it. People are generally pretty civil in public, or at least moreso than in Eastern cities, but that's not really the same thing as nice. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460360) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:02 PM Author: Stimulating milky station There goes Minnesota nice... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460325) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:03 PM Author: disrespectful misunderstood location you know when people say Minnesota nice they mean polite but cold right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460335) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:04 PM Author: Stimulating milky station yup.
I've lived in London and MSP. "Sorry" really means F-You in most cases.
The only difference between London and MSP, other than the accent, is tater-tot hot dish. |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 8:54 PM Author: zippy passionate police squad dilemma College. It was nice then, but I don't think I'll move back. Ok, I guess. I don't really evalute the quality of women in a given city. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460273) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:00 PM Author: cocky bawdyhouse cuck You could probably tell how relatively hot you were compared to the locals. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460314) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:05 PM Author: zippy passionate police squad dilemma I guess I see myself as being about average in most of the cities where I've lived. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460350) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:23 PM Author: Brilliant Kitty You're average in most of the cities where you've lived? Tell me where these cities are, I want to move. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460473) |
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Date: March 30th, 2006 9:53 PM Author: zippy passionate police squad dilemma Aww, that was sweet. Thanks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5470697) |
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Date: March 30th, 2006 10:05 PM Author: Alcoholic fantasy-prone crotch dragon tell me some cities were you are far below average. i want to move. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5470844) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:06 PM Author: avocado tanning salon you went to college in MN? Uni or LAC? (also, like the e-mail- though wouldnt you qualify as a full on ginger?) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460359) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:10 PM Author: zippy passionate police squad dilemma I don't have freckles and I don't melt if I go out in the sun - I think I qualify as a daywalker ;) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460386) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:17 PM Author: avocado tanning salon Are you honestly freckleless? Not even shoulders/upper chest? I have never seen someone with your skin/hair color without *some* freckles. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460432) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 11:03 PM Author: zippy passionate police squad dilemma If I go out in the sun in the summer, I get a few on my shoulders. But I don't do that much. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5461361) |
Date: March 29th, 2006 9:19 PM Author: Chest-beating wonderful stage circlehead I grew up in a suburb of Minny, so here are my comments.
1. it is gorgeous in the summer, awful in the winter 2. the girls are unbelievably hot 3. cost of living is moderate 4. traffic sucks 5. downtown minneapolis is nice, almost like a small chicago. st. paul is older, but nice as well 6. minnesota nice is a misnomer. people are pretty reserved and passive aggressive
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:20 PM Author: Stimulating milky station OMG...yes. Passive agressive is the key!
I forgot about that. |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:21 PM Author: wild hominid gaping number 2 is false if rowan is considered average there (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460459) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:22 PM Author: Stimulating milky station Actually, there is a good contingent of hot women. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460467) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:21 PM Author: poppy ceo how open are they? say, to interracial relationships? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460465) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:23 PM Author: Stimulating milky station Very. In the cities, it's very open minded. 30 minutes out, however...
This explains their anti-gay marriage amendments...
Hmong and whites don't mix, though. Neither do the Somalis, to come to think of it. |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:29 PM Author: Chest-beating wonderful stage circlehead i forgot to add that minnesota drivers are the worst in the country, undoubteldy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460524) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:31 PM Author: Stimulating milky station You've never been to MA, have you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460544) |
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Date: March 30th, 2006 9:51 PM Author: zombie-like boistinker macaca Massacusetts drivers are bad, but not as bad as MN..too many people drive 50mph in the left lane on the freeway. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5470666) |
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Date: March 30th, 2006 9:52 PM Author: Chest-beating wonderful stage circlehead don't ever expect minnesotans to properly merge onto the highway, either (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5470685) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:31 PM Author: poppy ceo why don't hmong and whites mix? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5460543) |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:32 PM Author: Stimulating milky station Very different cultures...not a lot of social interaction.
I can't think of seeing Hmongs out anywhere. American blacks are all over the place on Hennepin and whatnot, the Hmongs and Somalis keep to themselves, for some reason. |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 9:37 PM Author: Chest-beating wonderful stage circlehead as my friend put it: minnesota is 1000 different shades of white.
anyone else is pretty much ignored |
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Date: March 29th, 2006 11:33 PM Author: know-it-all mother Okay, I'll bite. I'm from Minneapolis. I believe it's a peculiar city.
It's a great place to live, but I think it would take a while to grow on you. It's a bit different from most other midwestern cities I've been to. If anything, it might be more like cities in Canada or the pacific northwest, in that it has a huge population of white liberals and lots of young people, many of whom have drug problems.
St. Paul is a different story. It looks more like an old industrial midwestern city like Milwaukee or Cleveland. It's smaller and people in Mpls don't go there much, although it has a couple yuppieish areas.
Southwest Minneapolis is where most of the well-off liberal white folks stay. It's decidedly different from much of the rest of the city. Northeast Minneapolis is becoming gentrified too, but much more recently, and it still has a rougher feel.
Downtown is weird compared to most other cities. It seems like one big corporate office park where all the buildings are connected by skyways so people don't have to walk in the cold.
Passive-aggressiveness is a very refined trait in Minnesotans, especially older ones. Middle-aged women are the worst. Some girls are pretty but they can be very midwestern, as in stodgy and dumb. There are a lot of fat people who look like cows, but not as many as in Wisconsin.
The suburbs have a lot of truck-driving hicks. A lot of suburbanites, especially from the far northern suburbs, really hate city people, liberals and brown people. There are more genteel suburbs too, like Edina, which is a well-off inner-ring suburb like Evanston (Chicago) or Shaker Heights (Cleveland).
All in all, not much to complain about. I love Minneapolis. Rent a nice apartment or part of an older house in uptown and you will love it too. |
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Date: March 30th, 2006 9:55 PM Author: bearded business firm feces are you black? why the hell would a black person live in minnesota? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5470729) |
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Date: March 31st, 2006 5:37 AM Author: floppy point fat ankles For the same reason they'd live in Vermont, less racial tension. More annoying people saying "Wow, what's it like to be African American" is the tradeoff. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5473932) |
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Date: March 30th, 2006 9:58 PM Author: Boyish iridescent yarmulke I've been there one time. And they have white girls with the biggest booties I've ever seen on white girls before. It was a shocking experience. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5470765) |
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Date: March 30th, 2006 9:59 PM Author: poppy ceo damn dude. NICE! what race are you? where else hav eoyu been in the US? Thanks. are they big? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5470777) |
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Date: March 30th, 2006 10:00 PM Author: Boyish iridescent yarmulke I'm black. So I know a big booty when I see one. I was in Mall of America and it was literally teeming with white girls with big booties. I was there with a black friend at the time, and he noticed it too.
I haven't been to too many places in the US really so factor that into your calculus or whatever... |
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Date: March 30th, 2006 10:02 PM Author: poppy ceo damn dude. that's fucking hot. what part of the country are you from? why are white dudes all about skinny chicks? i don't understand it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5470819) |
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Date: March 30th, 2006 10:05 PM Author: Boyish iridescent yarmulke I'm from a state kinda' near Minnesota. Yah, the Minnesota white girls are curvier than normal I guess. But even then, that doesn't account for their booties because usually thicker white girls don't have round booties like these girls in Minnesota. They truly have booty like black women. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5470845) |
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Date: March 30th, 2006 10:09 PM Author: Chest-beating wonderful stage circlehead yep, minnesota girls tend to be tall, curvy, and skinny. i don't know how it is physically possible, but i can't complain.
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Date: March 30th, 2006 10:16 PM Author: Boyish iridescent yarmulke I don't agree with 'skinny.' but on everything else, I concur. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5470973) |
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Date: March 31st, 2006 9:14 AM Author: appetizing stag film mental disorder If it was a weekend, people in MoA probably weren't from MN. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5474225) |
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Date: March 30th, 2006 10:08 PM Author: Alcoholic fantasy-prone crotch dragon traffic is terrible and the city is boring as hell, based on what i've seen of it. the southside is a total shithole also. i dont care for minny.
chicago is so much cooler. |
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Date: March 30th, 2006 10:11 PM Author: Boyish iridescent yarmulke Did you read that description out of your most recent issue Highlights? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5470912) |
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Date: March 30th, 2006 10:11 PM Author: poppy ceo describe the women as compared to madison girls please (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5470918) |
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Date: March 31st, 2006 4:49 AM Author: Lemon Adventurous Weed Whacker Church I've lived in Minnesota for a bit before. The girls are pretty good (especially if you like blondes) but for the most part they really have no sense of style at all (ie, sweatshirt s and sweat pants). Minneapolis is kinda cool (I enjoyed the fact that a shitload of good bands play at first avenue etc) but a bit overblown by the locals. The clubbing/drinking scene in my opinion totally sucks compared to places like miami, london, nyc. AZN - Incidentally, I bought a computer from an asian guy in st. paul who had a white girl friend (a bit pudgy..then again I like them kinda stick thin). He graduated was clean cut doctor who graduated from u mich. Overall, a good place to raise children but I wouldn't really want to live there as a young man. There is that "minnesota nice" but definitely underlying racism. The best people from the midwest are iowans. |
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Date: March 31st, 2006 9:20 AM Author: appetizing stag film mental disorder I am in MN for now, I grew up in a state where they say bubbler. Things I've noticed:
1) I don't think traffic is worse than most cities. I went to college in Milwaukee and I thought traffic there was worse, but that could be the fact they were tearing up the highway next to my university, and the fact that I live in a pretty close suburb to the city now. I also take the bus to classes because it goes in the HOV lane and is faster and then I don't have to pay for parking downtown.
2) Minnesota nice is not a myth. People are VERY friendly once you become close to them, but not so much outwardly - they'll be polite, but it's two-faced, like the "bless her heart" crap in the south. I turned off a lot of my classmates by telling them I didn't plan to stay here.
3) I don't know that women here are naturally prettier than girls anywhere else in the midwest, but they certainly seem to put more effort into themselves. This is particularly true for girls who work at Target.
4) People are REALLY rude about commenting about accents. I hear about my Wisconsin accent 2-3x a week - I wouldn't think that is something worth talking about up here.
5) Everything up here seems to be 10% or so more expensive than it is in Milwaukee. I'm sure it's still cheap relative to most parts of the country, but it was a surprise for me. However, there is no sales tax on clothes, which is SWeet.
6) People NEVER LEAVE here. I am shocked at all the people who grew up in the suburbs, went to college in the Cities, and stayed here for law school because they don't want to leave. I love where I'm from but I think you should at least try something else.
7) People seem to get married really young - most of my friends are classmates and I am at a religious school but I am shocked at the number of 1Ls who are married. |
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Date: March 31st, 2006 10:41 AM Author: saffron low-t home Is St. Thomas even in the 4th tier these days? How's that going for you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=389790&forum_id=2#5474650) |
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Date: March 31st, 2006 11:12 AM Author: appetizing stag film mental disorder We got full accreditation in Feb. so we aren't in this year's rankings.
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