Why Fargo?
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Jim;162661 wrote:
It's cool. Thats why there are places like Texas and Fargo for you :icon_flower:Not saying I'd want to grow up in an uber-con area either. Maybe you just met the wrong people up here because I know plenty of extremely liberal people around the area. Up here is more moderate than many places you'll find...you honestly would like to live in a place like SanFran?
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What did you miss out on?
I grew up in Kentucky, went to school in nebraska, worked in st. louis for a summer, lived in Redmond for a few years, and now live here.
My wife and I love fargo. We were thinking we'd move to the Twin Cities within a year of moving here but after the year was up we had no interest in ever living in MSP.. visiting it as often as we do you really get the sharp contrast of all of its shittyness... traffic, high cost of living (for almost no payoff vs a real city like manhattan).... socially i'm not thrilled with it either.
A nice thing about fargo's "lack of culture" : we're not in the middle of a race/culture war being fought out in the media. (i.e. no Somali Cab driver fiasco here)
Fargo is great because you can afford to live within walking distance of downtown, and there's "enough" to do for how often we go there, and the walk and the atmosphere is safe. It's rare to find a downtown area that is worth going to, safe enough to go to, and cheap enough to live in/near, but fargo has it. Granted, I'm married and don't drink, so my expectations of a "developed" downtown area are different than lots of peoples, but we're at Nicole's almost every week.
An interesting thing.. when i lived in redmond, there were way more people with much nicer cars... and more race tracks near by... and the salary / cost of living strucutre was higher.. but i was also busier and wasted more time getting places. Since living here I've been to the track way more than when i lived out there... even though here there are fewer track events and they are further away. (we've got BIR @ 3 hrs and MAM at 5hrs.. vs seattle where you've got PR in <1 and PIR in ~3).
There's certainly some truth in the suggestion that many people in ND never leave ND for any amount of time, but some of us have lived elsewhere and still like Fargo.
In my opinion, the biggest disadvantages of fargo are:
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depressed wage and COL structure meaning fewer real dollars for non-COL adjusted goods (like cars. Professionals in big cities have nice cars because their COL is a commensurate percentage of their inflated salary, ,but the real dollar value of the 8% (or whatever) disposable income they have is higher than in a place like Fargo.. yet cars cost the same real-dollar amount everywhere)
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a side effect of the above - real estate is a poorer investment here than in some other places.. we had like a 25% return on our house in redmond after living there for 18moz..
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I moved from Fort Ripley to the Twin Cities a couple of years ago. Ever since, it has seemed to me like the political climate of MN is getting worse and worse. Don't know whether it's because I moved back to the cities and I just see stupidity around me that much more often, or if it is truly because the government in MN is getting a little out of control. With the trampling of personal property rights, MN's goal of becoming the highest taxed state in the union, and the banning of everything in sight, Minnesota is becoming less and less appealing of a place to live.
My fiancee and I have had a couple of serious discussions about possibly moving to either North or South Dakota. Seems the Dakotas don't have the hyperventilating, granola-munching, batshit-insane ultra-liberal/communist lobbyists telling the state government what not to allow it's citizens to do next.
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MisterCMK;162716 wrote:
Come to FargoYes, but then I would start posting on Fargostreet more frequently.
Could Fargostreet handle MY postwhoring? I think not.
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If you walk down the street of NYC, you hear 20 different languages, see 15 different races...
You walk down the street in Fargo and you see 20 different shades of blonde, and people that attend 15 different churches.
Oh, you say what about the mexicans, kurds, and somli's up in fargo... Its like they don't even count becuase they never assimilated in to culture like you'd find other places (and yes I know, in other cities not all minorities have either, but quite a few more then in Fargo).
You may find the occasional persian or indian doctor, and who knows there might be an asian person who works on the microsoft campus.
How many of you are considered a minority that are speaking now? Just wondering, oh and yeah, i'm not jus being a bitchy asain about it, my parents are white, I'm adopted I'm not pulling any race card or anything, just commenting
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You may find the occasional persian or indian doctor, and who knows there might be an asian person who works on the microsoft campus.How many of you are considered a minority that are speaking now? Just wondering.[/QUOTE]
Nice jim asians and computers.
i am not a minority either. but i know what ur talking about
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Jim;162731 wrote:
I worked at taco bell so I sympathize with the beet workers.I have alot of respect for the hispanic community. They are some of the hardest working motherfuckers you'll ever meet, they pay in cash (don't know/care where it came from) and hardly ever bicker about price.
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