[Mpls] You get what you pay for indeed.

[Mike Jones]

I was born and raised in St. Paul, for 20 years. This May I moved to Minneapolis, and eventually to Uptown.

I still hate St. Paul and love Minneapolis. St Paul is an empty shell of a city. It's downtown boasts nothing but a few big toys Norm Coleman bought with my taxes to pump blood in a lifeless urban center. I can count on one hand the few places I like in downtown St. Paul (Artist's Quarter, Cosetta's, Sakura, I think that's it).

The only good part of St. Paul is the Midway-University-Grand sort of area, due to it's closer proximity to Minneapolis and a bunch of rich colleges.

Seriously, go to downtown St. Paul on a Friday night. It's disgusting... there's nobody around! I will never regret my migration to the vibrant urban community that is Uptown. The word community did not exist in the East Side of St. Paul.

I remember my mom used to work at Carson's at downtown St. Paul. We would ride the bus and shop at stores downtown. She was transferred and then laid off when Carson's went kaput, and as for the store, they are all gone now. What happened?

-Mike Jones
Uptown

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