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Mick
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There's good food up here, too. There's good food all over the country. You just have to know where to look.
And comparing the choices in restaurants in Minneapolis with a metropolitan area that has twice as many people as the whole state of Minnesota is not really valid.
I politely disagree. Different cities, different cultures, different economies... The residents of Minneapolis put their money into diversity and as a result the restaurants, the arts, the nightlife; it all thrives.
SLC: Nice avatar. Thank you.
I didn't say Minneapolis doesn't have all of that. I'm not attacking the Cities in any way.
I just think that it's pretty obvious that a comparison of any city in the Midwest to the Chicago area is an unfair and invalid comparison. Of course there's going to be "more" in Chicago. It's huge! There's far more diversity, far more representation of different cultures, and far more people (and much more money) to support those things. It's like comparing Duluth and the Cities. Even though much of the emphasis on "diversity" is shared, we don't have the same resources up here to support it to the same degree.
I'm not saying Minneapolis is inferior in any way. It's smaller than Chicago (which is an advantage in most regards). That's a fact and it has bearing.
It's demographics, Mick, not "better" or "worse".
Yeah, I think that was what I was saying. The charactistics of a population vs the size. That's what makes Minneapolis unique to diversity. There are many cities of similar size that do not have the same diversity. Is it better or worse? If you enjoy diversity, it's better.
Stop hatin' Alan. :laugh: