Minnesota

Atoms for Peace

Anyone been up "north"? Other than Fargo I don't really know a lot about the place.

TheValeyard

Wildlings

Ipso

Cold in Winter, humid in Summer.

Conall Cernach

I have a FB "friend" in Minneapolis. Apparently it is still snowing there.

ArnoldJRimmer

Was there briefly and found out that the off licences are closed on a Sunday. Lovely part of the world in the summer

Dr Turk Turkelton

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I have a FB "friend" in Minneapolis. Apparently it is still snowing there.

It's still snowing in New York sure- of course it's still snowing in Minnesota.

Atoms for Peace

Berties_Horse wrote: »

Nebraska has a lot going for it, especially the movie.

Good album as well.

humberklog

Fargo is in North Dakota.

pleas advice

oh yah

Atoms for Peace

humberklog wrote: »

Fargo is in North Dakota.

But the movie and series is mostly based in Minnesota.

Gimme A Pound

Heavily Germanic/Nordic - more conservative than their ancestors' European descendants. Lutheran. Lot of farming. Seems like one of the quieter places in the US. A nice place I'd say. Been told I'd like St Paul's.

Ipso

Berties_Horse wrote: »

Nebraska has a lot going for it, especially the movie.

If you like corn.

bnt

I’ve been to Alberta, which is where you end up if Montana is not sufficiently North for you. I hear the summers can get quite hot there, but I went in January which was very much the opposite. Edmonton is about the same latitude as Dublin, and gets a lot more sunshine, but it also gets blizzards direct from the Arctic. :eek:

ceadaoin.

I know someone from Minnesota who was in Dublin a couple of months ago. He thought the cold was horrendous and didn't want to go outside. Now, granted he's lived in Vegas for a few years but I still thought the Irish winter would be nothing for someone from a place where it was -60f at the time!

ted1

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Anyone been up "north"? Other than Fargo I don't really know a lot about the place.

I was there for a week. Not a bad place, the mall of America is there.

I believe that The strip clubs don’t sell alcohol ....

ted1

humberklog wrote: »

Fargo is in North Dakota.

But in the movie they never make it to Fargo

ted1

ceadaoin. wrote: »

I know someone from Minnesota who was in Dublin a couple of months ago. He thought the cold was horrendous and didn't want to go outside. Now, granted he's lived in Vegas for a few years but I still thought the Irish winter would be nothing for someone from a place where it was -60f at the time!

It’s the moisture here that gets you.

Everything I know about Minnesota I learned from How I Met Your Mother, and a six-hour delay in Minnesota-St Paul Airport many years ago.

The airport is lovely and huge and the woman who helped me do the Minnesota Lottery was very helpful. Ask for Karen; big girl, strong handshake.

Igotadose

Minnesota people, unlike most mid and upper-Midwesterners, in my experience, on average aren't nice. Traveling there for work in the old days, I remember just lots of interactions with the 'man in the street' where he/she was a rude f*ck.

Example: Late night pull into a fast-food hamburger place ("White Castle") with a few friends. Order some burgers and a vanilla milkshake.

Pick up order. They serve me a chocolate milkshake - I tell the white-haired cashier, "I ordered a vanilla shake." "We don't make those." *blink* I pay and say as I'm leaving, "Good thing I'm not allergic." Even if there was some misunderstanding with the order, (the hamburger place wasn't exactly crowded nor was it terribly late at night), everywhere else I've eaten at, they'd gladly just give me what I ordered. Not in Minnesota.

That's not the only time. Getting cut-off while turning left at an intersection after having waited for a light to change was classic.
Rude f*cks in bars and casinos (seriously rude buggers in the last case).

And on. And I didn't go there too often, but eventually just found ways never to go.

I've been to many US states, never had the problems with casual interactions like I did in Minnesota. I advise everyone to avoid going there, there are other more beautiful states in the US with less awful people.

odyssey06

When I was on holiday in Beverly Hills 90210 I had great craic hanging out with Brandon and Brenda Walsh, twins from Minnesota. Their dad moved to California for a promotion.

Don't mention the Minnesota Vikings football team to a Minnesotan, they've reach four Superbowls and lost every time. So like Mayo, you know.

Ipso

odyssey06 wrote: »

When I was on holiday in Beverly Hills 90210 I had great craic hanging out with Brandon and Brenda Walsh, twins from Minnesota. Their dad moved to California for a promotion.

Don't mention the Minnesota Vikings football team to a Minnesotan, they've reach four Superbowls and lost every time. So like Mayo, you know.

Same witch?

odyssey06

Ipso wrote: »

Same witch?

Different funeral.

WoollyRedHat

Oh you betcha.

Mall of America is there. It's like the Disneyland of shopping malls.

Credit Checker Moose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKeHQpT5wVE

Igotadose

https://bringmethenews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/bringmethenews.com/.amp/news/is-minnesota-nice-a-myth-transplants-say-they-struggle-with-frosty-natives?amp_js_v=0.1&usqp=mq331AQECAEoAQ==

One thing I thought to add. Most ex-Minnesotans I knew were lovely people. None ever wanted to move back

Atoms for Peace

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Anyone been up "north"? Other than Fargo I don't really know a lot about the place.

My partner is from Minnesota. I've seen a ridiculous amount of photos of him standing in snow in his underwear at various stages in his life. I know that the baseball team is called The Twins, the football team is The Vikings, and that all rural Minnesotans fish, hunt, love ice hockey, and that in the summer they all sail.

They live on various casseroles with potato or bread toppings, and they're all called Hot Dish. They have a version of poutine that's nicer than the Canadian stuff, and they cope with things like their top lip freezing to their teeth very well. They seem very sensible, hardy people, and say what they mean, and apparently city Minnesotans are soft.

None (or all, or some) of this may be true, my sample size is small.

Anyone know why so many Swedish immigrants went to places like Minnesota whilst many of the (rural) Irish settled in urban cities along the East Coast?

Except for Tom Cruise in Far and Away, of course; he took part in that race for a ranch in Illinois. And for Sharon.

Mad_maxx

humberklog wrote: »

Fargo is in North Dakota.

Yes but some key parts of the move are set in minesota

Mad_maxx

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Anyone know why so many Swedish immigrants went to places like Minnesota whilst many of the (rural) Irish settled in urban cities along the East Coast?

Except for Tom Cruise in Far and Away, of course; he won that race for a ranch in Illinois. And for Sharon.

People like moving to places inhabited by people they know, mid West in America is extremely German for example

A Tyrant Named Miltiades!

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Anyone know why so many Swedish immigrants went to places like Minnesota whilst many of the (rural) Irish settled in urban cities along the East Coast?

Except for Tom Cruise in Far and Away, of course; he won that race for a ranch in Illinois. And for Sharon.

Timber workers. A lot of the Scandi immigrants were rural loggers and that's where the industry was centred. Also the landscape and climate was familiar and not an impediment to the Scandis, as it would be to Southern Europeans.

Nigel Fairservice

ceadaoin. wrote: »

I know someone from Minnesota who was in Dublin a couple of months ago. He thought the cold was horrendous and didn't want to go outside. Now, granted he's lived in Vegas for a few years but I still thought the Irish winter would be nothing for someone from a place where it was -60f at the time!

I lived in Canada for a while and I've never been as cold as I have been in Ireland. I'd be walking around in -15/-20 in my jacket and I'd be sweating. The cold in Ireland is a damp cold that gets into your bones.

Lirange

Avg humidity in Minnesota in January is surprisingly high. Not much lower than Ireland. 70s vs low 80s respectively. It’s well east of what they call the dry line which bisects the North American continent.