What is going on everyone? Let's talk about Minneapolis Minnesota a nice
northern city that I've spent some time in off and on over the years this is a
city that's been getting a whole bunch of bad press lately if you don't know
what I'm talking about I'd like to be the first one to welcome you back from
your coma after you catch up on the news you might want to go back into that coma
Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota and it's the 16th
largest metropolitan area in the United States it has just under 400,000
residents with a metro area having just over 3.5 million their mayor is Jacob
pray and I really feel sorry for that dude right now as I'm recording this
June 5th 2020 there are serious riots in his city and all over the world because
of his city we'll get into that later on Minneapolis was incorporated in 1867 and
has the nickname of the city of lakes nobody uses that one everyone calls it
the Twin Cities because it's right next to st. Paul Minneapolis in my opinion is
a great city with very friendly people it's a great town for sports and outdoor
activities and drinking beer if you're into that it just isn't for everyone
and that's what this list is all about things you should know before you move
to Minneapolis I'm not saying this place is bad it's not I'm just saying these
are the things the city's website and real estate agents won't tell you about
let's take a look number 10 the Seattle freeze of the
Midwest Minneapolis and Seattle have this thing they're known for in Seattle
it's called the Seattle freeze people freeze you out basically they will be
friendly to you but they won't become your friend
outsiders say it's difficult to break into their inner circle of family and
friends if you try their attitude is sort of like we grew up here and we have
enough friends thanks for trying there's a Seine in this part of the country
Minnesotans will give you the directions to everywhere but their house I've read
both Seattle and Minnesota get this from their Scandinavian history I guess
that's how the Vikings rolled back in the day so if you move here bring some
friends buy a dog try not to pick up a drinking habit because people tend to
drink a lot when they're lonely number nine the jobs there aren't many outdoor
jobs compared to the rest of the country in Minneapolis and the ones they do have
suck a good portion of the year because the weather if
you move to the lake city be prepared to work in a call center or some other
indoor desk job don't forget to have a picture of a tropical island on your
desk if you do work in a call center it helps get your mind off the last a-hole
you talk to I suggest everyone take a job at least once in a call center you
will gain a world of knowledge like the representative your talk you do is
probably doing a puzzle while you yell at them and they've tuned you out
completely when you get angry and threatened to sue the company they don't
care they really don't care that's not gonna go anywhere past their ears it's
gonna be a forgotten thing because most companies get that threat a dozen times
every twenty minutes I'm not even kidding really they just don't care in
the slightest if for some reason the company does fold from say countless
lawsuits they'll just get another call center job rinse and repeat but if you
do work in Minneapolis chances are you're gonna be indoors if you want to
work all year round number eight high DUI rate Minneapolis has one of the
highest rates of drunk driving in the nation they're always in the top ten and
it seems like everyone in this city is doing it but that doesn't make it okay
it's not one of those things where you get pulled over drunk driving bowl of
grape jello a goat a drinking buddy and the cop lets you go with a warning no
you're going to be arrested they're aware of the drunk driving stats and
they will cut you no slack besides getting hauled off to jail you have your
car impounded calling a bail bondsman a lawyer insurance rates go through the
roof and various court dates it is expensive to be charged with drunk
driving or DUI or whatever you want to call it you also have to consider the
people you could hurt while driving under the influence it's really not
worth it both financially emotionally and in every other kind of alley
there's no excuse these days I mean honestly you've got Buber you've got
lyft you've got friends you've got public transportation you even have
taxis wait never mind this is Minneapolis and you probably
won't have any friends there but there's still no reason to be out drunk driving
number seven housing prices are high Minneapolis is in the Midwest and most
of the Midwest cities have seen just a slight increase in home prices year
after year after years and years of decline not Minneapolis they have other
plans they've been gaining a little more than
a lot of the other big cities in this part of the country you
a year I mean before the Copa 19 and riot stuff just by looking at Zillow the
prices sort of go like this if you get anything for around 200,000 it's going
to be small it's going to need some work and it's probably not in the best
neighborhood get up around 350,000 it is a newer house the neighborhood is a
little bit better but it's not great now obviously this isn't the worst in the
country it's actually a little past middle of the road most people though
expect this area to be a lot lower and I think they get a little bit of a sticker
shock when they get to Minneapolis I was looking at condos that are you know nice
condos of decent ones and stuff like that in downtown we're going for like
six hundred fifty thousand for a two-bedroom
that's like California New York prices not Minneapolis number six the whether
this is a Tale of Two Cities if you visit Minnesota twice once in the
summer and once in the winter you won't see the same city it will be the same
city it's just unrecognizable it is green and warm and humid in the summer
and then it's covered in snow and people are wearing parkas in the winter now to
be fair it does have four seasons just two of them are too short to enjoy or
remember and the other two can be unbearable summers can't get hot and are
always humid and they're always full of mosquitoes full of mosquitoes there's
just far too much water around this city mosquitoes are everywhere fall is too
short to enjoy winters are long cold dark snowy and really makes you question
losing all that weight during the summer vitamin D is your friend here Minnesota
is known for its cold Minneapolis is the coldest major city in the United States
and then you get to spring spring should be pleasant and wonderful it's too short
and it's muddy number five not for green thumbs now this one isn't gonna sound
like a big deal to half of you but another half it is a big deal I don't
think so I don't I don't garden but gardening is a big part of a lot of
people's life my daughter being one of them like I said this video isn't
telling you not to move someplace it's telling you things you should know
before you make that decision so stop typing I get that all the time as soon
as I say anything like this that's kind of you know not that big of a deal
people just start leaving lame comments oh like someone's not supposed to move
someplace because you can't garden yes that is a reason combined with other
reasons most of the time just like there's not enough dog parks is a big
deal to someone really weird one though I've learned
that since I've been doing these videos that's one of the top search things
before crime and traffic is is it a dog-friendly city and do they have dog
parks I always thought that was weird anyway so that just kind of goes to show
you that things that don't matter to you probably matter a lot to other people
anyway moving on a new study list Minneapolis as the fifth worst city in
the u.s. for green thumbs the study also said that temperatures are too frigid
the precipitation levels are less than ideal and the growing season only lasts
161 days it could be worse ranking the worst slots were Hartford Connecticut
Milwaukee Wisconsin Providence Rhode Island in Bismarck North Dakota when it
comes to the best cities though you gotta head to Florida or California they
had like the top 15 spots those two states number 4 dressing in layers if
you come from a warm climate you probably have no idea what this all
about it's a new term for you it's called dressing layers in cold weather
you need to learn this if this isn't something you want to do I suggest
moving to Atlanta it's nice there you'll never have to worry about it dressing in
layers is an art form kind of there's three layers you have your base layer
which is polyester silk or some other material it has the ability to take
sweat off of your skin just don't use cotton shirts as a base layer this
absorbs the moisture fine but it won't evaporate and kind of keeps you cold the
whole time then you got your middle layer that's very important this is the
insulation layer sweater sweatshirt fleece these will all work as a middle
layer it should be snug but not too tight I don't care how fit you are tight
sweaters look weird on everyone but supermodels and then you have your outer
layer the most important layer of all this layer is less about keeping you
warm and more about blocking the wind in the rain if you really want to stay warm
make your outer layer a windproof waterproof shell type thing like a rain
jacket ideally they have vents around the
armpits to allow the sweat to evaporate you'll see this on some of the really
higher-end rain jackets and things like that if you're ever in the military and
you owned gore-tex a gore-tex jacket they had all that stuff if you really
want to get fancy though the outer shell made of specially engineered materials
like gore-tex work great it's probably why the Army has been using them forever
and that is my presentation of dressing in layers
number three driving driving in Minneapolis is a skill that has learned
from many years of experience driving into cold weather Klieman is a lot
different than any other climate when you move here take it slow and take
advice from people that have lived here while there's no city in the United
States better equipped to deal with cold weather and snow removal than
Minneapolis that said sometimes the accumulation of snow happens so rapidly
that you're forced to drive in snow covered roads they just can't keep up
sometimes it happens that fast in those cases there's some skill involved that
you can research like turning into the slide things like that just the obvious
stuff learn about it figure out what it is but I would find a vehicle with
four-wheel drive a good clearance and keep your tires updated so you're not
driving down the road on bald tires that doesn't go well in snow also keep sand
or kitty litter with a shovel in the trunk of your car to help dig yourself
out you put the kitty litter and stuff down by your tire so they don't just
spin they actually get some traction yeah it works you will eventually get to
the point where you are driving in conditions that are dangerous or just
don't make you comfortable there's no shame in pulling over and figuring out
your next move trust me on that one I would keep those situations down to a
minimum and I think most employers will understand you were driving into work
and you wet your pants on black ice and you're not gonna be in today
so yeah number two not a good place to be a cop if you've been following the
news you've already scratched relocating to Minneapolis for any sort of law
enforcement work wallet hub ranks the entire state of Minnesota as the fifth
worst state in the nation to be in law enforcement many things went into that
like working conditions pay whether life work balance etc now in Minneapolis you
have a police department that's considered one of the worst in the state
to work for and now job security may be on the table as a negative right now
politicians at the city and state level are considering disbanding the entire
Minneapolis Police Department and starting fresh in light of recent events
I'd get into all that but I don't think I should be maybe it is a good thing
though maybe it's not I don't know what I do know is the crime rate in
Minneapolis is 112 percent higher than the Minnesota average Minneapolis crime
rates are also 82 percent higher than the national average
here's a good one violent crime rates in the city are 108 percent higher than the
national average those aren't good numbers they don't reflect nicely on a
police department that's already embattled and number one A Tale of Two
Cities again so about Minneapolis they are in
the top 10 of a lot of different stats including racial inequality the Twin
Cities area has some of the most tilted numbers on racial inequality in the
nation here's some quick bullet points the median black family in the Twin
Cities area earns 38,000 dollars a year which is less than half the median white
family's income of eighty four thousand dollars a year this income inequality
gap is one of the largest in the nation only nearby Milwaukee Wisconsin has a
little bit worse before the pandemic the black unemployment rate in Minnesota was
at a historic low that's great but it was still double the white rate
in 2016 the twin cities areas black unemployment was more than three times
the white unemployment rate in 2019 the incarceration rate for blacks in the
Twin Cities area was 11% higher now these numbers aren't just the police
they're troubling numbers that cause a sense of unfairness they create a
feeling of hopelessness desperation anger and we've seen all that boil over
in the recent weeks Minneapolis is a great city with wonderful people it just
has a bunch of things it really needs to work on like I said if you're thinking
about moving there remember some of things on this video if they are
deal-breakers or any of them deal-breakers take a look at you Claire
Wisconsin it's just east of Minneapolis and it's a
really nice place to live alright so that's today's video I want to give a
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