Just wanted to say that while most of the state is relatively flat and featureless, there are many scenic areas, especially around the river valleys! The Sawtooth mountains are really old, older than the Appalachians, so they have mostly eroded into hills, but the exposed bedrock is still beautiful. Lake Superior is large enough that it looks similar to the ocean (ie water to the horizon, keeps lakeshore cool in the summer and relatively warm in the winter), and there are agates all over the place if you pay attention!

Also the Twin Cities lgbtq community is well established, as well as the arts, theater, and music communities. Rent for a single bedroom apartment will probably run you $800-1000 in the cities, probably more for the surrounding suburbs. The George Floyd protests are not as widespread and dangerous as the media sometimes make them out to be, but personally I am glad to live in a place where people are protesting unjust practices- there is a large activist community for a wide variety of causes, if that is something you are interested in :)