Jeff Rosenberg wrote:
Gina, I would say your frustration is coming from the fact that Minneapolis is what some would call 'Semi-Urban.'Thirty years ago, when I got here (most recently from Brooklyn at the time), Minneapolis was really a town trying to become a city. It's tallest building (and only "skyscraper," the IDS) could be seen easily once you came over the rise from the Minnesota River up 35W. It looked like a monolithic padorker (a word I learned in NY) in a cow pasture. 494 and 694 were largely undeveloped. Traveling from town to semi-urban in only a generation and a half is pretty stunning on the psyche, particularly out here on the oak Savannah surrounded by short and long grass prairie turned to farming.
Even in the 1980s I could take a #9 bus out to the end of the line and watch deer in the early winter pre-dawn. A trip to the end of the #67 through Minnetonka turned in Excelsior at a wide spot in the road at Rt. 5 with farms on all three sides. When the farmers were cutting hay the air would smell so sweet it would send you away in your mind across the prairie. That's now the middle of a thriving, burgeoning suburbo-city.
Semi-urban may be the most humans can absorb in so short a time. One of the greatest faults of Capitalism is that it must grow or die. It's kinda like a ponzy scheme that way.
WizardMarks, Central
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