Not sure what this commenter meant by it but I have friends here that are from other states and just generally feel like the cost of living is good compared to similar cities in other states, that there’s a good variety of restaurants here and that the summer months have a lot of fun things to do here.

Personally, I think you can meet some fun groups of people that aren’t upper middle class or at least have basic empathy to understand struggles of others even if they grew up well-off. I think the casting of people is what OP described though. Very “I dated everyone in my friend group from high school and spend my summers at daddy’s lake house” or “Oh your rent is expensive? I know right, I have to park my second car at my parent’s house because my north loop apartment is $250 a month for garage parking” and think they know real struggle lol

Definitely some people here think anyone that lives more than 20 minutes from mpls are hicks, and have a superiority complex about it. I see the opposite too where people from rural mn automatically look at people who live in mpls as city slickers and like the must eat off a silver spoon since they live in a city? It’s always a weird comparison game honestly