I am perfectly capable of leaving Saint Paul, but I choose not to, and I have chosen to stay here every time I think about it for the last 19 years.
Why? I can walk around the lake (Como) Go to the zoo, visit any number of really good different restaurants, go to interesting shops and get my kids a good education. (My eldest is at Princeton. Graduated from Saint Paul public schools ) The residential architecture is unique and interesting Urban gardens are beatiful in our neighborhood The streets have full grown tree cover The people are friendly and helpful, and come in a great variety. I am also safer here, because suburbanites are in more physical danger from the extra driving they do than urban people are from the slightly higher crime. Another nice thing about living in the City is that any time I want to visit a place where the houses are all alike, and the people are mostly white, where you can see great distances without trees in the way, where 'Going for a walk' means walking in a circle on a cul-de-sac or down a busy road, where I can watch kids riding bikes in circles in their own driveway because there are no sidewalks, where I can go to one big-box chain store after another, then I can always visit a suburb! Tom Searles said: . What is it about > Minneapolis and St. Paul that makes people can leave, leave? [sic] > > Tom Searles > Waconia, Twp. > _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Metropolitan Issues Forum http://www.e-democracy.org/tcmetro Rules: Sign posts with real name. You may not post more than twice a day.
