Give Me One Reason To Come Back To Minneapolis...
From:
Susan Maas
Date:
Jul 02 16:58 UTC
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I concur with Marguerite. Maybe the housing crisis and all the social ills that
attend it haven't caught up with places like Starbuck yet, but it'll happen.
And yeah, tweakers and their drug have penetrated the rural areas -- no thanks.
I think James Howard Kuntsler is right on in his prediction that peak oil will
lead to a renaissance for the cities. I love Minneapolis for all the reasons
Marguerite does: art and culture, a million kinds of great food, progressive
politics, community (not the virtual kind, but the kind where you actually
interact face-to-face with other humans). Plus the fact that I can work, shop,
get my kids to school (a pretty great neighborhood public school, thank you
very much), dine, go to the library, hang out in a locally owned coffee shop,
etc. without having to get in my freaking car. Although I wish we didn't live
across the street from two abandoned houses -- one of which is a frequent
source of criminal activity -- I think the benefits of being a Minneapolitan
still FAR outweigh the drawbacks.
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