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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xeriar" data-source="post: 1052565" data-attributes="member: 4116">Outpost 2000 is within walking distance of my old home <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-p" title="Stick out tongue    :-p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":-p" />At the risk of getting a little too political, there are nasty political situations involved with the public ones :-/On the other hand, teachers have gotten much-needed pay-raises recently and Minnesota of course never cuts school funding.  The newer schools are pretty darn extravagent.Eden Prairie, Edina and Wayzeta are generally considered 'ritzy' areas.  Only Edina is over the top, though.'Better' really depends on what you are looking for.  Suburbs like Brooklyn Park are huge and rather strikingly diverse.I live here so I like it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />Rightnow the northern stretch of I-94 is getting a -MAJOR- upgrade, but seriously it depends on where your job is at (I don't know where the Target HQ is).The Osseo school district was pretty good...  But honestly a lot of people are considering private or home schooling.Bloomington (south of Minneapolis).  The Rosedale shopping center is in Roseville (just West of Minneapolis), which is just as massive all things considered.  But there are large malls in many major suburbs.I've always been fond of that cherry on a spoon monument <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />Honestly, I haven't been on the scene much,  We have some great museums (had lots of fun in the science museum as a kid) - and even as a non-Christian the Basilica of Saint Mary is an impressive sight in my opinion.There are a lot of parks.  They are pretty safe during the day, but undesireables to show their faces from time to time :-/Yes, and then some.  You may want to check out the Orpheum Theatre and I believe there are others.Nearly all crime in the Twin Cities metro area is concentrated in a large block of Minneapolis called the 'near north side'.  It's not -terrible-, but not a place you want to live too close too.Generally, lock your doors (on both your house and car), women should not walk alone at night, etc...  People do these things and get away with it, and generally delinquents prefer easy targets (walk around at night checking the doors on cars to find one unlocked, etc.)I've seen people leave their doors unlocked and their cars running for an hour at a time or more...  silly people.  You can get fined for doing that, by the way.My opinion is that it's pretty good, given the state of the rest of the nation.  That is usually how it is.Well, our sports teams are generally above average all around.  They only get seriously hyped when they are doing -really- well, though.Which happens every couple of years.  This year was the Wyld - our hockey team.</blockquote>

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