Lets track the Mpls Crime report tonight

I wanted to call the mayor's office when I left, to say, Do you guys keep statistics on white flight? Because I'M LEAVING.

The entire twin city metroplex, including the suburban sprawl into the border Wisconsin counties, has completely gone to shit. I farmed western Wisconsin while working a full time job in aviation. I commuted 4 hours a day to pull my 8 hour shift. I know every surface road between Savage Mn and Turtle Lake, Wisconsin. I kept apartments at different times in Eagan, Savage, Rosemount,Minnetonka, Shoreview, Lake Elmo and Lindstrom while maintaining a farm and Address in western Wisc. In 20 years i watched that area go from one of the best and most wholesome places to live to one of the worst. Nearly all the crime is from a certain cultural demographic arrived in the past 20 years

The last time I was in Plymouth/Wayzata/Minnetonka/Hopkins/Shakopee I could barely recognize the roads, everything was so built up and changed.

I grew up there and would hardly have known where I was in certain places that should have been familiar.

Same thing with South Minneapolis, once "home turf" was like "where am I?" in 20 short years.

If I never set foot in Minneapolis again I'd be fine. It's sad really because I have so many interesting memories of the 1980s living in town there and going to shows, and going to college etc, even running a business in the 1990s. But when I left, I never looked back. Crime drove me out for sure. The high rents didn't help, and the road rage either. But it was the street crime that did it. It was bad 20 years ago, I've heard it's just unbearable now.

Last Edited by Vision Thing on 09/28/2021 05:35 PM