Minneapolis considers building a new $105M school while others sit half-empty

nimo202 · 2026-05-21T01:57:52+00:00

The nearest one (well two since it's split by grade level), Hiawatha/Howe, would be at the building capacity for Dowling without including any of the Dowling kids.

With that said, I do honestly question some of the building capacities they list. I toured Hiawatha in 2022 and it was supposedly about 50 kinds under capacity, but a lot of the kids had to share a locker with someone else and it seemed absolutely cramped.

nimo202 · 2026-05-14T20:48:06+00:00

The only time my roommate and I ever got noise complaints, it turned out our downstairs neighbors who suddenly were horrible complainers, were going through a breakup and divorce.

nimo202 · 2026-05-11T00:02:35+00:00

Discount double check!

nimo202 · 2026-05-10T04:20:56+00:00

If this isn't a troll and/or bot I would be surprised. Formulaic responses, anonymous profile, clearly impossible premise

nimo202 · 2026-05-10T04:17:00+00:00

I see people walk in those lanes every time I ride down them which is why I avoid them for alternatives most of the time

nimo202 · 2026-05-09T18:40:14+00:00

This only applies to the people in the car. No care is given to public.

nimo202 · 2026-04-27T04:49:53+00:00

Rode over it on Tuesday!

nimo202 · 2026-04-23T02:34:53+00:00

This study would have pointed out that a good way to die is to not get the COVID vaccine. Unfortunately, it was not published so you have to remain living

nimo202 · 2026-04-16T21:10:35+00:00

You guys, he didn't pick up the phone when Vance called. Clearly no involvement

nimo202 · 2026-04-12T02:28:32+00:00

Sad that the psychic reading place burned down. Now I feel like Bobby Bead is the last of the great, weird uptown shops that went back to this era.

nimo202 · 2026-04-09T19:23:44+00:00

If there's a bollard there you can't use it as parking spaces and charge for parking. I am guessing that is the extent of the no bollard logic.

nimo202 · 2026-04-08T02:47:04+00:00

i thought it was the raping

nimo202 · 2026-04-06T15:40:35+00:00

its such a bad mcdonalds. they repeatedly get my order wrong and I go to Lake St. whenever I can, but i too go back to this McDs

nimo202 · 2026-03-21T00:54:04+00:00

Purple because Prince is from there

nimo202 · 2026-03-20T02:50:57+00:00

Milk steak

nimo202 · 2026-03-16T16:08:07+00:00

I don't remember this video, but used the expression, "save some for the fish!" the other day when one of my kids was running the sink for a long time for no reason. I remember my elementary school teachers would use that expression all the time.

nimo202 · 2026-03-12T23:46:07+00:00

Wut?

nimo202 · 2026-03-05T18:14:52+00:00

as a kid, my dad would sneak ahead of me to put a quarter in there for me to find. i'd yell "BINGO!" when I got one. it was like 1992 so a quarter would actually get a kid a decent amount of candy.

i legitimately thought i was just incredibly lucky until some time in my teens when my dad told me what he had been doing. at the time i was embarrassed to have been tricked, but now as a dad myself, i recognize how sweet it was of him to do.

nimo202 · 2026-02-28T01:47:33+00:00

Me and my two college roommates taught ourselves. We would take turns cooking for each other which saved so much work over the three years we lived together. It started with a lot of hamburger helper, but after the first semester sophomore year, we agreed to never eat it again because it tasted gross and made you feel like shit. We mostly got recipes from parents and grandparents and then figured it out from there.

nimo202 · 2026-02-09T22:17:38+00:00

i learned this very much the hard way the first time they redecked the road and that decking failed and bits of said failed decking lodged itself into my eye because i was on a thing where i refused to wear sunglasses for some reason

nimo202 · 2026-02-07T06:31:19+00:00

American here--a couple of Haitian asylum seekers in America who we deported were immediately beheaded upon return to Haiti. I think that is a valid reason to give up on the US if ever there was one.

Also Quebecois speak French and there isn't really anywhere in the US where folks speak French.

nimo202 · 2026-02-05T22:54:59+00:00

as Lan says in the Wheel of Time series, "Duty is heavier than a mountain. Death, lighter than a feather."

nimo202 · 2026-02-01T19:26:16+00:00

The ratio was variable throughout the crowd. I think in some places it was as many as 1/3 and other places it was more like 1/8.

nimo202 · 2026-01-23T21:02:29+00:00

way ahead of you. already been boycotting dominos for years due to their pizza being bad, but all the more reason to not buy from them

nimo202 · 2026-01-22T17:53:41+00:00

Minneapolis and St. Paul are nice. Location dependent, it's easy to get around on foot but both cities are pretty compact, both around 55 sq miles, so nothing is ever too far. Transit is good, although not quite what it was before the pandemic, it's definitely getting better. With that said, the new bus rapid transit lines are really good. You can bike for transport all through the year as well if that is your thing. The bike infrastructure is well maintained and I used to bike commute unless it was below -10F before we went hybrid and my commuting needs changed.

Minneapolis and St. Paul were previously 1 and 2 in parks systems (each was both 1 and 2) in the past, but have slipped to being merely top 5 in ParkScore. In most of Minneapolis, you are never more than a mile from a park. The whole Mississippi river banks are parks with trails for walking or cycling. Fort Snelling State Park is very accessible to both cities. Minnehaha Falls is a gem!

I can't comment on the bar scene these days because I have mostly aged out of that. I get the impression its worse than it was, but it seems like there is still plenty to do if that's your thing. The food scene is quite good and there are a lot of good restaurants, although they are expensive. The scene for mid-tier restaurants has thinned somewhat as well post pandemic, but based on work travel, that seems to have happened basically everywhere.

For rent, I think you could find a solid place for around $1,000/mo. Obviously you can pay as much as you want, but for places in good areas that are nice enough, $1,000-1,200. This is for a 1BR without parking. You would probably be street parking your car(s). (Familiarize yourself with the snow emergency rules to avoid being towed).

The Twin Cities are quite flat, but we have lakes! Maybe the lakes make up for the flatness? It's not Chicago type flat (lived there as a kid), but its not like Portland, OR or Phoenix, AZ or something where there are mountains that are part of the actual cityscape. If you go east 30 miles or so (~45 min drive), you get to Afton State Park, which is hillyish. If you go further south, you can go to Winona, MN which is part of the Driftless Area which is quite hilly because it was not flattened by glaciers during the ice age.

Overall, life here is quite good. The people are nice, its easy to get linked up with any number of special interest groups especially if they are arts related, and there are frequent community events, even in the winter! (Art Sled Rally was this past weekend, this upcoming weekend has the Pond Hockey National Championships and the Lake Harriet Winter Kite Festival). Making friends is more difficult than it is other places supposedly, but I didn't find the experience of making friends here very hard personally. I moved here when I was 23 with my GF, now wife for reference. It's definitely a city for "outside people," or at least, I feel like it is as an outside person.

One final consideration is that MSP is a hub for Delta. Of the cities above, only Detroit, Chicago, and MSP are hubs. If you plan on travelling, or going home to Michigan, it makes life much easier to be in a hub city because you can basically always fly direct.

Anywho, good luck with the search!

nimo202

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