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Message: <blockquote data-quote="neg" data-source="post: 1051823" data-attributes="member: 4431">Hey, I live in St.PaulHey  die_kluge !Just doing my usual lurking when I saw your thread.  I think I can help out.  I moved to the Twin Cities from Chicago about 7 or 8 years ago.  I am originally from California.  So I think I can still give you a good perspective.First-  Target would be a great company to work for, of course.  They just spent major money building a corporate office in downtown Minneapolis.  So they won't be leaving any time soon.  Same thing can be said about Best Buy, they recently built a huge corporate office in a suburb close to St. Paul.Second-  Twin Cities are divided by a river and are very different cultures, but can be view as one city with close to 600K people.  You will cross the Mississippi on most days just to run errands, find entertainment, etc.  Weather is tough to adjust to.  Winters can be brutally long, and that includes copious amounts of snow and wind and below freezing temperatures.  Spring, the prettiest and most bearable time of the year is of the "don't blink or you will miss it variety".  Summer ranges from bearable to hot and humid.  Autumn is just down right wonderful.Third-  Wide range of housing options right now.  Lots of house on the market.  A starter ranges from $120K- $150, 2nd or third is around the 200K to 300K  range.  One bedroom appt go for $800-$1000.  Many niftty areas to live.  There are a ring of suburbs similar to Chicago but it is much easier to get in and out of the Twin Cities than it is for Chicago.Fourth-  Two good local gaming shops exist.  The Source in St. Paul and Phoenix Games in Minneapolis.  Source carries more product, comics, novels, than Phoenix Games, but they compliment each other.  Whatever you can't find in one, the other would have.  Plus there is a local game distributor in town called Aladdin that can fill special orders quickly.  Did I mention that there are two D20 companies in town?  Atlas Games and Fantasy Flight Games?  You can always find their material around town.Fifth-  My gaming group(s) are looking for additional players.  Plus I don't think it would be very hard to get you in a game if you moved here.  Lots of bulletin boards looking for players.  I posted here looking for players, and I got more personal emails than posted replys.  At the end of all that I would saw 5 or 6 different gaming groups evolved from that 1 email.If you are looking for things you just have to have, or are concerned about, let me know.Hope that helps.  Post any questions, or email me directly.  Happy to help out a fellow gamer.-neg</blockquote>

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