Originally Posted by NuGuy

Heyas,

For those who are considering moving to MSP, make sure you go and spend AT LEAST a week looking around and interacting with the locals.

While relatively safe, it is an uncommonly expensive city to live in. If you are a seafood lover, get used to Walleye (it's gross) or Red Lobster, cause that's about it.

Unless you are from Minnesota or Wisconsin, you may be given the cold shoulder by the locals. It's just they way they are...everything revolves around what town you live in (Edina vs Eden Prarie), where you went to high school, and what hockey team you kid plays on.

You may be able to tolerate it, but from what I understand, spouses, who are there 24/7, don't like it at all because of this. It's hard to break into the local social scene unless you live in a neighborhood of other out-of-towners.

FWIW, 9 out of the last 10 fNWA guys I talked to are planning on heading to NYC. All were former NYC or BOS based guys, and live in PA, RI, NY or NJ, and are pretty stoked.

My 0.02...

Nu