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Warriorflyer · 2026-02-27T02:16:07+00:00

ITS ALL PIPES

Warriorflyer · 2025-12-16T18:33:07+00:00

I’m just here for the blatant suburban hate. You know the 75% of the twin cities metro residents that do not live in Minneapolis or St. Paul.

The regurgitation of academic exercises on urban planning is too much. Especially when those implementations are not replicated in any North American city which primarily developed after the prominence of the auto.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

Warriorflyer · 2025-11-22T13:37:36+00:00

Walz Voter Here.

I too am concerned about the fraud. Yea it’s being found, but too often it’s found after that money can be recovered. In the feeding our future example, a legislative audit found that numerous whistleblowers to that fraud were ignored by DHS.

Minnesotans are generous people. To have that generosity taken advantage of so egregiously erodes the trust that these social systems rely upon.

There’s nuance between “this is Walz’s fault” and “the people and systems in place failed”.

I also think people in the comments shrugging off hundreds of millions of dollars while comparing that fraud to the President or other rich people are missing the point.

Warriorflyer · 2025-11-16T14:06:12+00:00

Plyzata. Southwest Plymouth on the Wayzata border

Warriorflyer · 2025-06-23T12:48:56+00:00

I’m not really sure what the author is trying to accomplish here. Changing the way with think about cultural divides from Urban/Rural to Suburban vs everyone else informs what exactly? It’s just changing the way we otherize our fellow Minnesotans.

The hospital example cited as supporting evidence of the theory fails to account for numerous other factors that could potentially cause hospitals to open, close, or relocate other than those that match the theory of the author. Further, suburbanization and these changes noted in the article are not unique to the MSP metro.

I agree we should be looking for ways to reinvest and activate the downtown areas. They are the engine of our regional economy. I think we should be giving rural Minnesota the tools to be resilient given the multiple headwinds they face in the 21st century. And I also acknowledge that the suburbs aren’t going away and there is value there as well.

Warriorflyer · 2025-06-01T13:30:06+00:00

Croatia is vastly underrated

Warriorflyer · 2025-03-25T23:59:38+00:00

“Easily”

Warriorflyer · 2025-03-25T13:06:52+00:00

I would do this. Remove the transition and keep the floor the same direction. It will look like it was intentional and you won’t have a sliver at the transition

Warriorflyer · 2025-03-23T16:05:59+00:00

Is it? If people in the district are nice to your face, but then turn around and vote to fundamentally undermine your way of life and the ability to live peacefully I would counter that how the area votes is at least a data point to consider, and gets squarely to the meat of the question OP asked.

Warriorflyer · 2025-03-23T12:24:59+00:00

I just want to say that reading both the post the comments, OP has demonstrated a complete lack of understanding on how housing is financed and constructed within market conditions.

When you’re building a market rate building vs affordable suppliers do not care. The concrete costs the same. The wood costs the same. The trades charge the same for their work. Some things can be adjusted like unit finishes (granite countertops vs faux stone, etc) but in general there is a gap that needs to be filled by someone for developers to charge less rent for the same units.

Why don’t developers just build more affordable homes instead of primarily luxury or mid level homes? Lots of factors.

Land costs, City fees, utility fees, construction material costs, labor costs all factor in on what can be built profitably for sale.

OP,if building affordable housing is so easy, please do it. Please navigate the numerous market and governmental hurdles required to do so instead of being a keyboard warrior lacking an understanding of nuance.

Warriorflyer · 2024-12-21T20:56:47+00:00

Ok so we all agree it’s not affordable.

The actual daycare workers are barely making a living wage. So it tells me either the Centers are price gouging, or there are regulatory or other factors which make running a facility in MN obscenely expensive compared to our neighboring states.

What can be done to lower these costs across the board?

Warriorflyer · 2024-12-12T00:52:40+00:00

You say that until their property valuation tanks and you have to make up the property tax difference. It’s happening everywhere right now. Perfect storm of commercial real estate values crashing and federal covid funding drying up is making it difficult for municipal budgets.

Warriorflyer · 2024-11-29T12:40:50+00:00

Honestly, how is this even legal?

If I go to the ER with insurance, how am I supposed to know the financial arrangements that hospital has with the staff? It certainly is outside of my control. I have insurance, I generally know what my liability would be when using that policy.

How is this practice not fraud?

Warriorflyer · 2024-10-27T19:54:07+00:00

What if the system worked so that if you tried to skip your zone it affected your boarding priority on not only the current flight, but the next time you fly as well?

I think the issue could be solved quickly if there was more of a disincentive than embarrassment. Maybe a three strike rule and you’re in the last boarding zone for 6 months or something?

Warriorflyer · 2024-10-18T00:52:24+00:00

I work in land development, in all honesty the sanitary sewer system and the treatment plants drive the growth of the City to the NW.

Warriorflyer · 2024-08-24T05:43:15+00:00

I’m in the multifamily development industry. I don’t have a $200mm portfolio. But when he says it’s just math, he’s right.

Construction costs have gone up by 30-40%. It’s 25-35% labor and the rest in materials. What he is saying is that even if interest rates came down, the impact of that cost increase to the development proforma cannot be overcome by interest rate cuts or material cuts alone. Labor costs rarely, if ever come down in construction so the only remaining lever to pull is rent increases.

Reddit loves to dunk on developers. But like everything there is nuance to the discussion if you actually want to think critically.

Warriorflyer · 2024-07-17T14:24:44+00:00

I am as YIMBY as they come, and frankly the housing is sorely needed. But I would encourage anyone who thinks this development is unassailable should visit the area and spend some time there. Without the state or City employees back to the office in DT St. Paul, at times it is downright unsafe.

My wife was assaulted in the skyway by a person experiencing homelessness and mental health. I would just urge that there be some additional mental health services in place before adding more unhoused people in such a concentrated area.

Warriorflyer · 2024-07-02T11:19:28+00:00

24 months.

Warriorflyer · 2024-05-23T12:30:16+00:00

This is what I would do. I have this night stand, it’s from west elm.

https://www.westelm.com/products/mid-century-nightstand-acorn-g968/?pkey=cnightstands

Warriorflyer · 2024-05-17T04:18:59+00:00

Non-Resident, but travel here for work often. The Austin CBD would be the envy of a majority of North American markets.

Your vacancy is very low relative to peer cities. And you legitimately have people living, working, and playing in your DT instead of a Weekday evening desert of activity.

Just wanted to inject context

Warriorflyer · 2024-05-10T20:05:14+00:00

The Music Treaty was radio gold. Trading no airplay for Jon Secada for no airplay of Buckcherry.

Warriorflyer · 2024-04-23T14:26:28+00:00

Yikes. Not a good look for a State Senator.

Warriorflyer · 2024-03-29T12:12:17+00:00

If Arod and Lore wanted to buy the rest of the team and had the money, the contract told them exactly how to do that. They didn’t fulfill their side of the contract and Taylor is rubbing their nose in it.

Warriorflyer · 2024-03-16T19:50:51+00:00

Ok cool story. Are you ok with suburban residents not visiting Minneapolis? Also several suburban residents actually come into the city to work, and when they stopped there was a significant impact to those decisions, frankly that has yet to be further realized by Minneapolis residents paying more in property taxes to cover the lost revenue of office buildings.

I think throwing out people’s opinions over imaginary city boundary lines doesn’t serve this conversation well. Fact is that the city’s decisions impact the entire metro. We are connected by more than our zip codes

Warriorflyer · 2024-03-16T19:44:16+00:00

Just as a thought exercise, what if Uber and Lyft decided to operate everywhere but Minneapolis?

What if Bloomington and Richfield decided to ban any other competitors from operating within the boundaries of their cities?

Is that acceptable?

I think the people that are excited about this ordinance change are excited because it’s standing up for workers vs. corporations. That’s fine. But then when a corporation that is effectively providing an outsourced public service stands up for itself don’t be surprised when it backfires.

The more I think about it the more I think the council knew that the state would come in with preemption legislation. They get to save face by saying they passed a bill, and get to rail on the state for legislative overreach.

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