O hey bud! I second everything you said, but would add how much festivities continue into and during the winter. I spent a few years on the east coast (NYC) and they have no idea how to "do winter". No idea. Maybe in a future vid you can cover MN winter beauty and activities, as well as those skyways. Great video... I've subscribed.
From California to Texas to now Minnesota. This state is the BEST. I’ve had enough hot sunny days of 100F temps to last a lifetime. Bring on the Minnesotan winter! I’m ready! ❤❄️❤️
The first summer I lived here (transplant from Michigan), the temp hit 104 and roads were buckling from the heat. It can get really cold here but it can also get pretty hot.
Severely underrated video, having lived in Minneapolis my whole life, I 100% agree with everything in this video, life here is amazing and I highly recommend moving here!
I grew up in the Twin Cities. After college, moved to Boston for a job opportunity. 3 years later, moved to Denver for 2 years, and finally made it back to the Cities in 2006. I agree, best value/quality of life here.
I vacationed with my family here in October for two weeks, and couldn't get over how well organized, clean, beautiful, and diverse it was along with all the cool shops, restaurants, bars, and architecture. It's a bit pricey, and cold in the winter (I live in Missouri, and have a small farm on 10 acres), but otherwise I'm in love with it! We hung out in St Paul, and Minneapolis.
I think I'm going to use this video to help explain to people why I'm moving. Thanks for making it easy and maybe I might be able to get some friends to come along with me. Want to also add that the Minnesota Nice=Southern Hospitality connection is so on point
Jessy, 4 years ago your videos helped me make the decision, and I now live in Minnesota 😊. It is a great state! Been loving exploring it. I'm happy to rediscover your channel. So inspiring and full of love for this beautiful place.
Beautiful city/cities. This would be one of my destinations to live amongst some others in the US that has similar weather to where i live and have live my whole life- Buffalo, NY. Great video i loved the editing, showing the different areas in and around the twin cities.
As for winter. MN has the exact same winter as the upper one-third of the nation, except it stretches out longer in the front end and tail end. The best way to determine winter is when the ground freezes up as hard as concrete. This starts around Dec 1 and goes to 1st week of Aprli. This is true winter. The temps are mostly teens to freezing. On occasion they dip to below teens down to 20 below zero for a handful of days. On occasion the temps dip to minus 5 to plus 10, and hold there for a few weeks. If you have long underwear, good sweater, or two on, good pants, and good boots, good hat, scarf around your neck and scarf over your face, you can be out in minus 30 weather for 20 minutes doing the same work as being out in minus 5. The difference is that you stay out in minus 30 for less time as any exposed flesh starts to freeze up, so you can only stay out for less than 20 minutes at minus 30 below zero. But its the exact same as staying out at minus 5 where you can go for one hour. And there are many things to do outside, x country skiing, shoe shoing, skating, sledding, and jumping in deep snow piles. Making snow caves that you can go in with candles and be comfortable as a kid. And you can jump in the snow and get full of snow. This all takes energy, and you end up real tired and happy when you come in. Winter is great, but you have to have the right clothing to be comfortable outside in all temps.
We recorded a podcast episode of this, but will absolutely work on a video about this over the winter! BEST WINTER ACTIVITIES in the Twin Cities: ua-cam.com/video/9JN8-UuigUY/v-deo.html
Your guys vids are awesome, but I was wondering could you do a video on winter in Minneapolis? I know for most people cold isn’t exactly a selling point, but I’d love to get an idea of the good and bad and the ugly I’m in for when I move.
The way it was. You grew up in minneapolis, and winter was a time for two options. Stay home watch tv then get bored, or go to the city park to be with every kid in your local area. At the park you had a huge warming house with an attendant in his side office room reading newspapers all the time, a pop machine in the main hall, and restrooms. In the main hall you had maybe 12 park benches to put your skates on and warm up. Here you met every kid in the local area from blocks away. This is where you learned all about every kid in your area. In the city you had these warming houses in each park, which were 1 mile apart. (they had the same thing in st paul) . There were many warming houses all over the city. Some had wood fire buring pot belly stoves in the middle of the bldg. The warming houses were a minature social community for kids. This is where we got to know the kids in our local area, as we were all bonded together in the warming houses. And we went out on the rink to play. Mostly tag. And tag is what made us the best skaters in america, because we learned to skate super fast, stop super fast, cut corners super fast, else we got tagged, which was the worst thing. It was always more fun to skate from the tag, not try to tag. Tag is what made minneapolis kids the best skaters in america.
@ this sounds amazing! Would love for my kids to grow up with an experience like this. We’re already trying to figure out how to minimize screen time before we start a family (don’t want any iPad kids). Are these still around?
Did I make it to the comments before Rick from Apple Valley had a chance to spread BS about Minneapolis being sizzled to a crispy desolate wasteland? Nice. Spoiler alert, the cities are actually quite awesome. 🚴
Minnesota has been by far the best state i have living in, and without beign bias we all know how liberal minnesota is, however the people are incredibly amazing and theres always a place for you weather you are liberal or conservative, the midwest values hold true to its people, if your comming from a denser city like l.a s.f ny, chicago. Dallas, altlanta etc... dont expect much, me do have ecer increasing crime, the leisure landscape is just not there, and the weather is brutal, so if your priority is raising a family in a great environment, culture, and job opportunities, Minnesota can be an amazing place
Can you elaborate on 'leisure landscape'? I'm not sure I'm familiar with the term but one of the things we love about the Twin Cities and Minnesota is the availability of being in nature. We have the North Shore, Sax-Zim Bog, Mississippi Headwaters, the Driftless Area, and prairie land. There is abundant water in a variety of habitats (creek, river, marsh, lake, bog). We are in a bird migratory flyway. And we have a plethora of public access to all this under multiple types of governance. But perhaps you're talking about something different with that term of leisure landscape.
@maegpye minnesota just doesn't attract or host the best events as far as plays, concerts, tourism, airport traffic, compared to cities like Chicago, NY, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Miami, 90% of the time you fly into a layover trip, your lucky if even your favorite artist or comedian comes to minnesota, there's not much that attracts people from out of state.
Best places in n mn. 1 ne mn ne of grand marais, best empty beaches to wander. zero people in all directions. 2 ne mn bwca, three lakes and more in from the access, zero people and vast waterways forever all over. 3 cutfoot sioux area, and all directions from cutfoot sioux for miles and miles, empty forests, lakes and swamps 4 all points north of grand rapids. Lakes and forest forever and ever
fake blue, the electronic voting machines were always rigged. That is why all the elections were always 49.5 to 50.5. That way you can't detect the election rigging. And you end up a blue communist (dem party) rule by rigging the elec machines. We must go back to one day voting, voter id, paper ballots. to remove this criminal syndicate.
there was never ever minnesota nice, it was always forever nice people in mn most everywhere. I don't know who came up with minnesota nice slogan. It just popped up one day, and it is a plain stupid slogan, which I never liked. From one of many many nice persons from mn.
Thanks for watching, y'all! This was so fun to make. If you know anybody considering a move to Minnesota, do me a huge favor and share this with them.
O hey bud! I second everything you said, but would add how much festivities continue into and during the winter. I spent a few years on the east coast (NYC) and they have no idea how to "do winter". No idea. Maybe in a future vid you can cover MN winter beauty and activities, as well as those skyways. Great video... I've subscribed.
From California to Texas to now Minnesota. This state is the BEST. I’ve had enough hot sunny days of 100F temps to last a lifetime. Bring on the Minnesotan winter! I’m ready! ❤❄️❤️
My husband (born in New England) is itching to retire early and move up here permanently. Four seasons! Nice people! Great food!
Love to hear it!!
The first summer I lived here (transplant from Michigan), the temp hit 104 and roads were buckling from the heat. It can get really cold here but it can also get pretty hot.
Moved here when I was a child. Love it. Glad we settle roots here. But yeah it can get cold like really cold. Better cold than burning 😂.
Severely underrated video, having lived in Minneapolis my whole life, I 100% agree with everything in this video, life here is amazing and I highly recommend moving here!
I grew up in the Twin Cities. After college, moved to Boston for a job opportunity. 3 years later, moved to Denver for 2 years, and finally made it back to the Cities in 2006. I agree, best value/quality of life here.
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I vacationed with my family here in October for two weeks, and couldn't get over how well organized, clean, beautiful, and diverse it was along with all the cool shops, restaurants, bars, and architecture. It's a bit pricey, and cold in the winter (I live in Missouri, and have a small farm on 10 acres), but otherwise I'm in love with it! We hung out in St Paul, and Minneapolis.
Love to hear it!!
@@charleyhorse1864 Well it's a small world isn't it? I'm from Lincoln County, just 40 minutes north!
Crazy, lived 8 years in St. Peters before moving back to Minneapolis in 2022.
@@Racingforfun-s8l Holy Moly!
I think I'm going to use this video to help explain to people why I'm moving. Thanks for making it easy and maybe I might be able to get some friends to come along with me.
Want to also add that the Minnesota Nice=Southern Hospitality connection is so on point
That may very well be the best use case for this video 😂 appreciate it!
Jessy, 4 years ago your videos helped me make the decision, and I now live in Minnesota 😊. It is a great state! Been loving exploring it. I'm happy to rediscover your channel. So inspiring and full of love for this beautiful place.
Beatiful picture. Great job!
Thank you so much!
Beautiful city/cities. This would be one of my destinations to live amongst some others in the US that has similar weather to where i live and have live my whole life- Buffalo, NY. Great video i loved the editing, showing the different areas in and around the twin cities.
Appreciate the kind words!
Best video yet! See you in a month! 😊
Appreciate that so much!! Definitely the most fun to make!
Your video caught my eye based on the thumbnail. Used to go down to isles and read right where that picture was taken.
This looks like a good state
Thank you! It really is!
@ToTheTwinCities is the transit good
@@consumerwatch7479 Yes, and getting better.
@@gardenerofthegalaxy good to know
As for winter. MN has the exact same winter as the upper one-third of the nation, except it stretches out longer in the front end and tail end. The best way to determine winter is when the ground freezes up as hard as concrete. This starts around Dec 1 and goes to 1st week of Aprli. This is true winter. The temps are mostly teens to freezing. On occasion they dip to below teens down to 20 below zero for a handful of days. On occasion the temps dip to minus 5 to plus 10, and hold there for a few weeks. If you have long underwear, good sweater, or two on, good pants, and good boots, good hat, scarf around your neck and scarf over your face, you can be out in minus 30 weather for 20 minutes doing the same work as being out in minus 5. The difference is that you stay out in minus 30 for less time as any exposed flesh starts to freeze up, so you can only stay out for less than 20 minutes at minus 30 below zero. But its the exact same as staying out at minus 5 where you can go for one hour.
And there are many things to do outside, x country skiing, shoe shoing, skating, sledding, and jumping in deep snow piles. Making snow caves that you can go in with candles and be comfortable as a kid. And you can jump in the snow and get full of snow. This all takes energy, and you end up real tired and happy when you come in.
Winter is great, but you have to have the right clothing to be comfortable outside in all temps.
These guys are the best
I’d love to see a video where you explain how people enjoy the city in winter since that’s the biggest barrier of entry for most wanting to move 💗
We recorded a podcast episode of this, but will absolutely work on a video about this over the winter!
BEST WINTER ACTIVITIES in the Twin Cities:
ua-cam.com/video/9JN8-UuigUY/v-deo.html
Makes me wish I could go back.
I live in Brooklyn park move here from New York 2 years ago and trust me I love I would encourage anyone to move here
Your guys vids are awesome, but I was wondering could you do a video on winter in Minneapolis? I know for most people cold isn’t exactly a selling point, but I’d love to get an idea of the good and bad and the ugly I’m in for when I move.
We’re actually working on an exhaustive series about winter in Minnesota! It’ll be several videos over the next couple months or so!
@ hell fuckin’ yeah my dudes. Literally thinking of everything. No wonder you guys get the biz. Looking forward to working with you in the future.
The way it was. You grew up in minneapolis, and winter was a time for two options. Stay home watch tv then get bored, or go to the city park to be with every kid in your local area. At the park you had a huge warming house with an attendant in his side office room reading newspapers all the time, a pop machine in the main hall, and restrooms. In the main hall you had maybe 12 park benches to put your skates on and warm up. Here you met every kid in the local area from blocks away. This is where you learned all about every kid in your area. In the city you had these warming houses in each park, which were 1 mile apart. (they had the same thing in st paul) . There were many warming houses all over the city. Some had wood fire buring pot belly stoves in the middle of the bldg. The warming houses were a minature social community for kids. This is where we got to know the kids in our local area, as we were all bonded together in the warming houses. And we went out on the rink to play. Mostly tag. And tag is what made us the best skaters in america, because we learned to skate super fast, stop super fast, cut corners super fast, else we got tagged, which was the worst thing. It was always more fun to skate from the tag, not try to tag. Tag is what made minneapolis kids the best skaters in america.
@ this sounds amazing! Would love for my kids to grow up with an experience like this. We’re already trying to figure out how to minimize screen time before we start a family (don’t want any iPad kids). Are these still around?
Did I make it to the comments before Rick from Apple Valley had a chance to spread BS about Minneapolis being sizzled to a crispy desolate wasteland? Nice. Spoiler alert, the cities are actually quite awesome. 🚴
Hahah!! Pesky Rick 😂
REAL lmao
Happy people happy state
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Kramarczuk's is not a Polish deli. How long have you been living in mpls?
It absolutely is a Polish deli. Google it. "Time-tested Polish deli & restaurant offering East European staples & homemade sausages."
Not only is it a Polish deli but it's the best Polish deli in Minneapolis! Enjoy!
Minnesota has been by far the best state i have living in, and without beign bias we all know how liberal minnesota is, however the people are incredibly amazing and theres always a place for you weather you are liberal or conservative, the midwest values hold true to its people, if your comming from a denser city like l.a s.f ny, chicago. Dallas, altlanta etc... dont expect much, me do have ecer increasing crime, the leisure landscape is just not there, and the weather is brutal, so if your priority is raising a family in a great environment, culture, and job opportunities, Minnesota can be an amazing place
Can you elaborate on 'leisure landscape'? I'm not sure I'm familiar with the term but one of the things we love about the Twin Cities and Minnesota is the availability of being in nature. We have the North Shore, Sax-Zim Bog, Mississippi Headwaters, the Driftless Area, and prairie land. There is abundant water in a variety of habitats (creek, river, marsh, lake, bog). We are in a bird migratory flyway. And we have a plethora of public access to all this under multiple types of governance.
But perhaps you're talking about something different with that term of leisure landscape.
@maegpye minnesota just doesn't attract or host the best events as far as plays, concerts, tourism, airport traffic, compared to cities like Chicago, NY, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Miami, 90% of the time you fly into a layover trip, your lucky if even your favorite artist or comedian comes to minnesota, there's not much that attracts people from out of state.
0:12 walk tuah lol
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Why would anyone want to live in any state other than Minnesota tbh 😆 I'm never leaving.
Best places in n mn.
1 ne mn ne of grand marais, best empty beaches to wander. zero people in all directions.
2 ne mn bwca, three lakes and more in from the access, zero people and vast waterways forever all over.
3 cutfoot sioux area, and all directions from cutfoot sioux for miles and miles, empty forests, lakes and swamps
4 all points north of grand rapids. Lakes and forest forever and ever
Because we are a blue state.
Blue city! Blue city!!
Blue state, but not a liberal state.
Best combo IMO. 👌
Unfortunately
fake blue, the electronic voting machines were always rigged. That is why all the elections were always 49.5 to 50.5. That way you can't detect the election rigging. And you end up a blue communist (dem party) rule by rigging the elec machines. We must go back to one day voting, voter id, paper ballots. to remove this criminal syndicate.
there was never ever minnesota nice, it was always forever nice people in mn most everywhere. I don't know who came up with minnesota nice slogan. It just popped up one day, and it is a plain stupid slogan, which I never liked. From one of many many nice persons from mn.