Comments on: No More Dissing the Suburbs

By: Mpls Simpleton

Mpls Simpleton — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:43:36 +0000

To me it seems like crime and the economy are linked. Not to try and explain what causes crime in 100 words but I personally think that recovery from the bad economy of the last few years has yet to reach the people that are most effected and being jobless with no future leads to drug use and crime.

Anyone know if they have micro umemployment stats for areas of the city? I would guess that the higher the unemployment rate is in an area the higher the crime and I don't think that crime for the most part is causing unemployment if you get my drift.

Maybe we need programs to get some of these 15-30 male year olds good jobs and a future.

By: bland

bland — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:34:00 +0000

Isn’t there a word for assuming a group of people is ignorant, uncreative and generally less worthwhile base completely on an unrelated factors like geographical location skin color or the type of job they have?

By: moe

moe — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:14:32 +0000

It wouldn’t be a problem if all of the hip people moved into the city, and the bad people moved into the burbs. It’s a win-win situation.

savman, you are right. The real story here is the fact that 40 people have been shot in North Minneapolis this year. But what needs to be done to stop the violence? Are the funding cuts in the city adding to the problem?

It seems like the good people of North Minneapolis are sick of it and have tried to organize events and a citizen watch, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Why not?

By: hooha

hooha — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:32:11 +0000

Seriously–if Rex/the new guys allow more ignorant posts (not comments, mind you) like this one, MNSpeak is going down. It’s suburbanites like that who give decent, city-loving folks like me who happen to live in a burb a bad name. Shoo, shoo I say!

I said it before and I’ll say it again–is this turning into the twin_cities LiveJournal community? So sad.

By: kristoff

kristoff — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:11:59 +0000

How many hipsters on MNSpeak came from a suburb anywhere, raise your hand?

Nope. Mpls born and raised.

And DaveM, check out Chicago's map!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:31:45 +0000

How many hipsters on MNSpeak came from a suburb anywhere, raise your hand? Almost all of you. That’s what I thought.

By: anon.

anon. — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:31:15 +0000

>>> So MOST thinking people

Whenever people start telling me what "most thinking people" think, I tune right out. Because it usually isn't.

By: slm

slm — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:23:48 +0000

hopkins is where it’s at.

By: savman

savman — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:13:11 +0000

Yes, but you seem to have forgotten the point here...

40 DAMN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SHOT IN ONE MONTH.

Not in the metro area, not in the Twin Cities, not even in Minneapolis...

Just in North Minneapolis alone. So shut up about how awesome the city is, and maybe try to think about why this has happened, and why neither the mayor nor the police chief seem to care.

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 06:51:30 +0000

City Boy is absolutely right. This thread reminds me of people who constantly refer to broken items or run down buildings as “ghetto.” Who the f*** are they to define what is and isn’t ghetto… Just like who the f*** is MSP to define “hipster.”