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Originally Posted by the dufferz  for a family without young kids, wanting affordable housing <$400,000, an area where I can get land acre plus, but still being close to a major city with shopping etc.
Where is the best place in Minnesota? |
You can probably find that in just about any of the Minneapolis suburbs. You might have more 1 acre+ choices in the outer suburbs though. Almost all are safe and low crime with the exception of parts of a couple inner ones on the north side, like Brooklyn Center, and parts of Brooklyn Park. North Minneapolis proper is the ghetto, and it extends a little into the first suburbs on that side. 5 minutes outside of downtown on any other side, I would walk around alone at 1am and feel perfectly safe, something that I can't say about most areas around Charlotte. I grew up on the outer west side of the metro area near Lake Minnetonka and still like that side best.
Most schools are pretty good, and Minnesota has open enrollment, so if you don't like your school district for any reason, you can enroll your kids in any other school in the state as long as the school has space and you provide the transportation.
I have been considering moving back there ever since I left this past summer. I really did not realize how nice the area was to live in until I lived somewhere else.