Secrets of the City

Minneapolis is awesome and St. Paul sucks. That’s my difference worth mentioning.

thanks kevin. we can now retire this thread.

hater.

kwatt beat me to it.

@kwatt @Riely111: You’re both just jealous.

Minneapolis is that hipster B-lister who can’t quit the botox, tummy tucks and breast lifts. St. Paul doesn’t mind everyone seeing their wrinkles.

St. Paul can find someone to pin a medal on it, then.

Meanwhile, Mpls, will be smokin’

As someone who was born and grew up in St. Paul and has lived in Minneapolis for the last decade let me concur with kwatt’s comment.

Minneapolis is done smoking, but still hot, Rat.

Actually, I have a t-shirt that says that. The mayor gave it to me back in ‘05.

Downtown St. Paul’s circuitous skyway (or “skywalk” in Iowegian) access to Chipotle is an instant lose. Why do they even bother with a streetside location if the place is only open for six hours during workdays?

St. Paul employs a lot more half measures:

* St. Paul’s bike lanes are better (IMO), but the trail system is weak. Good luck finding your way to the Gateway or Vento trails from downtown.

* St. Paul sees charm in less-historic buildings that Minneapolis would weed out.

* Minneapolis either develops or cancels halfassed highways. Imagine 55 as an Ayd Mill Road, or 28th street as Pierce Butler Route.

St Paul may not be home to the original, but it is home to some damn fine jucy lucy burgers at the Blue Door Pub and Nook.

I’ll cross the river for either.

I concur with Kohler. I think the Nook (and its partner operation, Shamrocks on W. 7th) and BDP have definitely pumped some needed pizazz into the JuLu. I’d almost suggest–if I didn’t know that the desperate hipsters on this site would skewer me for it–that the Saintly City is the new Jucy Lucy Capital.

I have heard that a couple types of Girl Scout cookies have different names on each side of the metro. Can anyone confirm?

St. Paul wears more wool (Irish and Latin American stuff) and gets drunk more often. Minneapolis wears more black and tends to binge drink.

St. Paul’s the Nook has the best BLT in the metro area. Minneapolis’ Kokapelli has the nearest BLT to my office.

Okay, I’m done… for now.

St. Paul is Miss Right
Minneapolis is Miss Right Now

Minneapolis is where you go to get your Facebook faux fashion photos taken.

Saint Paul is city organized around home daycare centers.

Minneapolis either develops or cancels halfassed highways. Imagine 55 as an Ayd Mill Road, or 28th street as Pierce Butler Route.

Uh, construction of Highway 55 began back in the ’60s and wasn’t finished for almost 40 (FORTY!) years. So, don’t be dissin’ on St. Paul for Ayd Mill. At least St. Paul doesn’t have something crappy like the Crosstown that was obsolete the day it opened.

Minneapolis Tweets; St. Paul writes a nice letter on real stationery with a fountain pen and blue-black ink.

Minneapolis flushes twice because St. Paul needs the water.

Minneapolis rents. Saint Paul owns.

Minneapolis drives like this; St. Paul drives like that.

St. Paul has the Capital City Goofball in the St. Paul Saints. Minneapolis has the Springfield Isotopes in the Twins (esp. when they start playing next door to the pollut-o-rama garbage burner).

Minneapolis leads; St. Paul follows.

St. Paul/Catholic, Minneapolis/Protestant.

Mpls Swedish/Somali, StP Irish/Latino.

Mpls is the Enlightenment; StP is the Classical.

I better stay outta this one, but I did see a t-shirt that says, “The Bible never mentioned anything about Minneapolis”….

Minneapolis is your mom, St. Paul is Teucer’s mom.

@grote

Minneapolis will still Ms. Right like he stole your bike.

@grote

Minneapolis will still Ms. Right like he stole your bike.

Minneapolis will. St. Paul won’t.

St. Paul is seems stuck up but is really just shy; Minneapolis seems shy (on a national level, anyway) but it is really just stuck up.

Each city seems to have one suburb each that begins with:

Shore –
Maple –
Brooklyn –
Rose –

St Paul is a great place to live, but who would want to visit there?

Minneapolis is a great place to visit, but who would want to live there?

-Minneapolis tries too hard.

-Saint Paul doesn’t have to.

@jane: What St. Paul suburb begins with “Brooklyn?” What Minneapolis suburb begins with “Rose?”

Shorewood/Shoreview, and Maple Grove/Maplewood, I can see.

Nood, I don’t know where anything is, I’m a city/inner-ring person! But there’s Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park, and Roseville and Rosemount.

@jane: Brooklyn Center/Brooklyn Park are neighboring ‘burbs north of Minneapolis. Roseville is north of St. Paul; Rosemount is south of St. Paul. Just so ya know.

In fact, Brooklyn Center and Roseville are considered first-ring suburbs, so you should know better, you city/inner-ring person, you!