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Bored Of Discipline wrote:

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It is perfect for many Park & Rides, a velib type system, total pedestrianisation and for turning into a pedestrian- and cycle-freindly city but there is no interest.

How about a monorail?

Good point. There is talk of one but you know my feelings on those.

No talk of Twerton Park being knocked down for retail units yet.

Actually, I can cycle along the canal to watch a match at Twerton Park.It is great,I feel like something out of a "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning"

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The only flaw I can think to the twin-cities is the all-encompassing tedium of the suburban areas such as Golden Valley and Eagan. Which are mind-crushingly dull, soul-destroying places. In Eagan you can have any house colo(u)r you like as long as it's beige.

Yeah, but that's true everywhere in America.

At least in Minnesota, there are lots of lakes and parks to break up the monotony. There are huge stretches of the DC suburbs that are nothing but tan-carpetted townhomes with names like Hunter's Ridge and big-box shopping centers.

If I move to Minneapolis, I'm planning to live either in Southwest Minneapolis near Uptown and the Chain of Lakes area, or maybe St. Louis Park, which is the suburb immediately adjacent to the Uptown area. It's suburban, but close enough to the action.

I'm a big fan of the Twin Cities, but partial to St. Paul.

To me, the biggest downsides are the climate (not just the cold, but its combining with hot summers (record temp well over 100 Fahrenheit), ravenous mosquitoes and the possibility of tornadoes (which scare the crap out of me)) and the huge distance from any ocean.

I realise both of these are highly personal and rather idiosyncratic.

I don't know enough about St. Paul. I might consider living there instead of Minneapolis if I knew where to be. The only part of St. Paul I know anything about is about a six-block radius around the XCel Center.

It's not as hot and gross as it is in DC and the heat shuts off earlier in the fall (usually) and comes later in the spring (usually), especially if you just travel a bit north from the cities.

The lack of ocean is somewhat made up for by the abundance of freshwater bodies.