This is the final straw: I'm moving to Duluth

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I just got mugged and had my wallet and all my money and cards taken today after exiting a restaurant in Minneapolis. A group of teens, one of them somehow had access to a gun, and I was mugged at gun point.

Im done with Minneapolis. Ive already reserved a bus ticket to Duluth this Monday because I cant take this dumpster of a city.

Bye!!

Are you taking your fiancee with you?

I don't blame you. One thing you might not have thought of though, is if you have any sort of visible disability, you will be seen as vulnerable to criminals. I'm scared to go out in broad daylight alone any more, for just this reason, and I live in a much smaller city than Minneapolis.

Umm... what about your new finacée?

She lives an hour from Duluth so I can still see her

I am sorry you got mugged. I grew up in Minnesota and attempted to live in SW Minneapolis on my own for an entire year. I was never mugged but I ran into some rough people while I lived up there. I also had one run-in with the Richfield City police who started harassing me because I was out late one night.

However, my biggest problems were not criminals, for me, it was my roommates and some of other people in the community who didn't care.

BUT WHO'S GONNA PROTECT METROPOLIS? Um, I mean.... Minneapolis.

I nominate YOU!

Southwest Minneapolis looks like a nice area, actually......Lake Harriet is nice.

Just because you have some people protesting in certain areas----doesn't mean Minneapolis is a cesspool.

This "black and white" thinking about cities is getting us nowhere.

Minneapolis is a cesspool not because of protests - as someone whose attended protests for Palestine I would be a hypocrite to condemn peaceful protests. Minneapolis is a cesspool because crimes have literally hit record levels in our city, with even homicide having a 112% increase since last year. In this 1 week ive witnessed a rape, a man assault an old woman, got a black eye right next to the restaurant Five Guys in downtown Minneapolis, and now I got mugged at gun point by teens clearly way too young to have access to guns.

And rioting =/= protesting. The issue of rioting is a lot worse than even the media does justice to. The fact that any and every time a black person gets shot, heck even in cases where the criminal was black and shot himself like last year in Minneapolis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Minn ... umors_riot

every time a black person dies while confronting law enforcement leading to riots is untenable and completely terrible a state of affairs. While we can agree that in cases like George Floyd and even Daunte Wright that the cops who killed their suspects were in the wrong, there are other times where a criminal who happens to be black attacks the officer, the officer fires back, and even though the officer was defending himself there are still riots.

Minneapolis cant go on like this where every time a black person gets shot while dealing with law enforcement, unjustified or not, that innocent property owners and bystander civilians have to pay the price from looting and rioting

I lived in Chicago as a young person for about six years. I was a crime victim twice in that time. But people I know who lived there then and now say violent crime is much, much worse today. Plus, I now look like a sitting duck whether riding a mobility scooter or a wheelchair.

As a result, I'm afraid to go to Chicago even as a tourist. This is not black and white thinking. This is recognition of a reality.

I agree with that. Yes. People have to get a more rational view of things. They have to get the WHOLE story. They can't just run amok over everything.

My father lived in Chicago. There are, obviously, bad parts of Chicago. But most of Chicago is safe for tourists----just like most of New York City is safe for tourists. One, usually, just has to use common sense.

I've been a crime victim a few times myself. I've been mugged. I was once stabbed in the head during a mugging on the subway in New York City. When I was a kid, I used to get chased by gangs all the time. I know what it means to live in an urban area. I'm a born, raised, and still a resident of New York City.

I have LOTS of experience living in an urban area---and I've lived in bad areas, too.

Anaheim used to be a "quiet" city, with a reputation for fun and good times.

It turns out that the reputation was undeserved, and that DisneyCorp had a firm grip on the Media* in the area -- except for the Orange County Register before 2008, which reported every mugging, every vandalism, and every drunk driver in the county up until then.

Now we are hearing and reading about freeway shootings, drive-up home shootings, kidnappings, and gang-on-gang violence in and around the city.  The local media cannot help but cover these crimes, in spite of DisneyCorp's influence, due to several websites reporting police activity.  Even the scanner-frequency websites have cracked the "secure" police channels so that ordinary citizens can listen in on police activity as it is happening.

It is difficult to determine if there is really more crime, or just better access to reports on police activity, but Anaheim is no longer the "Happiest Place on Earth", especially for the people who live there.

I am currently on the bus heading to Duluth.

As much as ive complained about Minneapolis I will say that I am going to miss the things I loved about this once beautiful city, such as the Guthrie Theater, Weissman Arts Museum, Fogo steakhouse, as well as the giant cathedral I once visited for an interfaith event.

Oh well

All those things are still there in the Twin Cities---and are not going away.

I hope you get a nice place quickly in Duluth.

I already have a house in Duluth with my cousin who is my business partner (ok I work for him, but it helps me feel powerful to call my boss my business partner)

It's actually an ok house, although because my cousin always has the terrible habit of leaving the doors and even windows without filters open bugs and animals always get inside, including some unpleasant ones like mice and gophers. I dread sleeping in my cousin's house, but it is what it is

At least we live a few minutes away from Lake Superior and the swim there is nice (if you dont mind the freezing ice cold temperatures that is)