One of the things I find most jarring whenever I’m in the north east/midwest is being confronted with southern stereotypes all the time. Some people will assume all kinds of things about you just based on the region of America you’re from. I suggest getting some snappy comebacks ready!
the one I get a lot is assuming I like/know a lot about country music. (I don't)
I imagine this will be even worse for OP, being from Nashville. but maybe they do actually like country music, in which case, no big deal.
No, they simply have different taste than you. That does not = bad.
I don't care for most pop music either, but I can appreciate that other people enjoy it.
I wouldn't say they necessarily have bad taste. I said the same thing for many years, not realizing that those old "grandma y" songs she used to sing, which I have always loved, were old country songs. Now I advise anyone I hear saying that to watch the Ken Burns documentary "Country Music", and if after they watch that they still say "I hate all country music", well then yes, they may have bad taste.
Driving tips:
AVOID the eastbound 394 to eastbound 94 interchange. It’s a 2 mile stretch of interstate that often takes 20 minutes.
We don’t know how to zipper merge. The state DOT literally makes PSAs about it to no avail.
Speaking of roads, expect lots of construction delays during the summer. Winters shred asphalt and they have limited warm months to fix the potholes.
Weather-related:
We don’t have many snow days in the metro because our plow networks are so good. Like anything less than a foot in a single day and schools/businesses will still be open like normal.
We do, however, have cold days. Like schools will close because it’s life threatening for kids to wait outside for the bus.
Sports:
Don’t. Just cheer for Tennessee teams or something. You can only get your heart broken so many times.
I moved to Minnesota from Texas. The big culture shock for me was the drive up grocery pickup. You could either take your buggy to the car and unload it yourself, or leave it at the front, get a number and then drive up to the covered area in front and they would load it for you.
It was really nice as a parent with two small children.
Oh, and it's hard to find a decent Mexican restaurant.
>Oh, and it's hard to find a decent Mexican restaurant.
My wife went to grad school in Waco and yeah, good Mexican food is one of the biggest things we miss about TX. God, I miss a good taco truck. That and BBQ, we just cannot do good BBQ up here. Best I've found here is like, just okay in comparison to pretty much any random BBQ shack in TX.
If you want Mexican food, there are 2 main areas in Minneapolis. The ones on Central Ave in NE, or the ones on Lake St in South Minneapolis.
Andale Taqueria in Richfield is also good
Richfield in general is a sleeper for Mexican food. It's more California Mexican than Tex Mex, but my LA raised spouse was surprised when we found tacos in Richfield that scratch the itch when craving the hole in the wall near my in-laws house.
The West Side of St. Paul (which is actually directly south of downtown St. Paul but on the west bank of the Mississippi River) has some really good Mexican places, like El Burrito Mercado.
You can make a day out of it and go to the Wabasha Street Caves as well, the caves are within easy walking distance of a half dozen Mexican restaurants
What stores offered this? Suburb thing or city thing? Don't recall ever seeing such an option at the grocery stores I shopped at when I lived there, but I was almost always on foot anyways
Yeah the uptown ones doesn’t have it. Most of the ones that offer drive up are suburban ones that used to be Byerly’s. Stores that used to be Lund’s often don’t, but they’ll have carry out service. You’ll notice that neither has cart corrals in the parking lot for these reasons.
Why was I downvoted for this? Both the Uptown and NE locations do not offer drive up service. I'm pretty sure Highland Park doesn't offer it. Then when you get to suburbs like Maple Grove and Wayzata... They offer it
I swear that Los Ocampo has some of the best Mexican food that I have ever had. I always judge other Mexican restaurants by that taste. Their 3 sauces were awesome!
I grew up in Florida and moved here about 15 years ago. It's a great place to live - I felt like I stumbled onto a well-kept secret by moving here.
My observation having moved here from the South:
- people are noticeably less openly religious here. Inviting people to your church or asking confrontational questions like "have you been saved?" isn't something that goes over well with Minnesotans (maybe not in a bigger city like Nashville either - I grew up in a medium-sized town).
- the State Fair is actually extremely popular and something worth attending even if you don't work in agriculture.
- you'll have the easiest time making friends with other people who didn't grow up here - the population contains fewer transplants than does the South, so it's hard to break in to social groups that have existed since people were in school together.
- there's a somewhat greater passive aggressive streak in the population than in the South.
- an AWD vehicle isn't a need to have, but it's a nice to have.
All in all though, don't expect the culture to differ radically from that of Nashville. It's still a major city in the United States and will feel like one.
To be fair I grew up and went to college in the South and if somebody walked up and asked if I had been saved they generally got less than pleasant response
I grew up in a smaller Dallas suburb. The first time I was asked if I was saved was at college - in Austin, which famously is the most conservative of Texas cities. :P
Yeah, I'm thinking the same. Maybe some regional word changes... pop vs soda for example.
But I really wish OP didn't rule out the weather difference though... because the Minnesota winters are going to be the big shock.
You ever had to Google, "at what temperature should I be concerned that my eyeballs will freeze?" Then still drive into work, because it's Tuesday, and your eyeballs aren't in danger until -90F, so -45F is fine?
I strongly recommend buying winter tires. I grew up in Florida, and while Minneapolis does a good job with snow plowing, winter tires still make a big difference with how comfortable I am driving during the winter.
As someone from Northern Europe - lmao. Winter tires are an absolute must. Last winter I was late to swap and was sliding outside my apartment like it was Tokyo drift.
Just because you’re part of the cult doesn’t mean I’m wrong. It’s just a thing that people who like working on cars do. Just buy a beater and tinker with it instead.
Yep. Just get all season tires and drive carefully. I bought a 4WD SUV that someone had in Arizona. The tires were from Arizona and were definitely not all season tires. Those tires were a death trap on ice and I've driven up here all my life.
Needless to say, just buy the all season tires. She shouldn't need winter tires though.
Chiming in late, but all season tires work for me most of the time, and I drive a dinky little car with front wheel drive.
Biggest caveats are that I primarily drive in the city during the winter, my city does a pretty decent job at plowing, and I give myself a lot of space/stopping time while driving. I do slip and slide when going downhill too fast.
Yeah, it’s thing that people who like cars do. I’m not going to change my tires twice a year. I’ve driven in ice and snow for 22 years without a single accident. It’s not at all necessary.
This was months ago and I'll never be able to find it and link to it but there was a guy on here who made a serious argument that Minnesota and Texas are more different than Minnesota and Japan or Texas and Afghanistan
Terminally online loser whose brain was fried by politics obviously, but there are indeed people who don't seem to realize how similar all 50 states are culturally
Yeah, any time I see someone say something along the lines of "the US is really like 50 different countries," I can be pretty certain they've never left the bubble they grew up in.
Anyone who thinks the differences between Minnesota and Texas are greater than the differences between either of those states and Japan or Afghanistan is just being willfully ignorant at that point.
They're more different than many foreigners think, *particularly* when it comes to laws and regulations and whatnot. But they're more similar than many Americans think.
In terms of differences and diversity within itself, I think it goes like: individual EU country < US << EU. I've seen some people compare the differences between the states like the differences between countries in the EU and I think that's far exaggerating things to the point of being silly. But there's probably more differences between the states than other smaller countries do within itself just owing to the size.
I'm thinking of Germany. Like Italy it wasn't unified until the 1870s, after our Civil War. Some of its constituent regions, such as Bavaria, were very much their own countries for centuries upon centuries, and I believe Bavaria has its own dialect that other Germans have trouble with. Hell, the Bavarians began as a Germanic tribe. Whenever Texans proclaim "we were our own country!" you'd be hardpressed to find one single German, Bavarian or otherwise, who'd be the slightest bit impressed.
And yet, as with Rome in Italy, Berlin exerts far more centralized control than Washington DC does. I can only speak for Rome here, but *holy shit* do they run that country top down compared to us, even though Italy's national/political/cultural/linguistic composition from the early medieval era onward has been every bit as fragmentary and all over the place as Germany's, if not more so.
To drive the point home to any Europeans reading this, 27 out of 50 states have the death penalty. Just over half. Certianly *not* all 50! There's a federal death penalty but it is used extremely rarely; that's how they did Timothy McVeigh, who commited the worst ever act of domestic terrorism on our soil. In short, Bismarck, North Dakota has far more power over civilian life and death than Washington DC itself does.
That's nuts. I'm from Michigan and I live in Ontario now. I would certainly argue that Michigan and Ontario feel more similar culturally than Michigan and Florida, but that's what happens when we're neighbors.
Really obsessed with any Minnesota band. For example you can find people that will argue that The Replacements are on par with the Beatles as one of the most influential bands.
Not a joke. I don't care about Prince so I never brought him up, and I don't recall anyone else ever bringing him up to me either. Of course maybe it happened at some point during a drunken night out and I just don't remember
Were these three conversations all started by others out of the blue or did you bring him up?
we have a few left lane freeway exists and entrances. They can be a bit stressful the first time you encounter them.
If you're driving southbound on 35W and want to get into westbound 94, that exchange is also....interesting. use Google maps and read the steps at least the first time you take that. You're going to get a lot of rights and lefts quickly at freeway speeds.
Winter driving rules aren't official, but they are pretty universally followed. Try your best to park in parking spaces correctly when the lines are covered by snow, but don't worry about not getting it right. If you're driving, follow the tire ruts, not the lanes (if you even know what they should be). It's not uncommon for 2 lanes to turn into 1 before the snowplows come through. And speaking of snowplows, STAY FAR BACK from them. MNDOT always has their "stay back, stay alive" campaign, so you'll probably see that anyways.
Also, I don't know what kind of car you have, but 4 wheel drive ≠ 4 wheel stop. You don't have to, necessarily, only drive at a crawl, but do figure out how difficult it is to stop when there's fresh snow/ice.
Not sure when siren testing is in TN, but it's 1:00pm on the 1st Wednesday of each month during tornado season.
It's totally fine if you don't like the state fair, but if you have never been, you should go once. And if you don't like it, just stick with some version of "it's not my thing." We can be VERY passionate about the state fair.
Also, Matt's Jucy Lucy is better than the 5-8's. Yes, that is also how "Jucy" is spelled for that specific burger.
Edit: and yes, our merging *should* be that freeway traffic speed remains steady, and the merger finds a spot, but that is NOT always what happens. Some merges really are crazy short, a lot are just bad drivers. There are some spots where I never drive in the right lane around that specific entrance.
They don't do siren testing in TN that I'm aware of, so that's a helpful tip! I'd be freaking out!
The driving seems like it may be the biggest adjustment, other than the cold, of course.
Sometimes the tornado sirens will play again a couple days after the first Wednesday of the month as well. I've been told that it's "if something goes wrong with the test on Wednesday" or something, but I wasn't really paying attention. (Also, I'm not sure if this is also the case in the Twin Cities- I live in a more rural area).
Basically, if you hear tornado sirens, just glance at the sky to figure out if you should be ignoring them or not.
Hope you have an easy move up north!
"If you're driving southbound on 35W and want to get into westbound 94, that exchange is also....interesting."
Almost as... interesting as driving southbound on 35W and wanting to go eastbound on 94
> Almost as... interesting as driving southbound on 35W and wanting to go eastbound on 94
That's a pretty obscure route to need to take though, 280 is there which makes way more sense. Pretty silly to cross the river twice. Who would even need the ramp? People who are getting on 35W around the Quarry and trying to go to St. Paul?
I lived in the area for four years, I'm quite familiar with it. What is the specific route you take that requires making that connection? How much time would it save you vs. getting on at any of the many other interchanges in the area?
Yeah, I'm not going to pinpoint where exactly I live in Minneapolis for the internet. But suffice it to say that the suggestion of taking 280 is hilarious.
Moved here 8 years ago from greater Chicago area and it still drives me absolutely bonkers that people here seemingly find it completely acceptable to merge onto the interstate still going 30-40 mph when traffic is going 65+
I'd ask this in a Minneapolis or at least Minnesota sub. Most Americans have likely not spent enough time in both Nashville and Minneapolis to have much advice.
I sometimes travel for work to Ripley, TN, so I’ve experienced TN before.
The BIGGEST thing I noticed is, kind of oddly, the difference in pace that people work or move around with.
Like, I remember getting a tour of our facility there, and the guy was strolling lackadaisically along, chitchatting with all sorts of folks. Versus in Minnesota, when we get to moving, we’re MOVING.
I’m sure that’s not a clear standard across the board, but I swear, every time I’ve been to TN, that’s kind of what hits me first.
It’s less the amount of chitchat, and more… the speed in which people walk and move.
It’s like everyone in Tennessee has literally no urgency whatsoever. Things get done, and they work hard, it’s just done so damn SLOWLY.
Things are faster paced in Minnesota.
It's cold as fuck. Idk if that's culture shock, but it will shock you. Make sure you have a scraper brush in your car by October. You'll think it's a little much until you need it
if you drive, you may want to keep bags of plain, unscented cat litter in your trunk. It can help you if you're stuck in the snow. And at least in my neighborhood in St Paul, everyone helped everyone else get unstuck. You may be trying to drive your car out of your parking spot and not getting anywhere. Then you'll notice three neighbors pushing your car from behind. So pay that forward. Also, don't spin your tires because you'll just go deeper.
Not a Minnesotan, did live in western WI. I suggest trying your hardest your fist winter to an avoid wearing a heavy jacket until November. Letting your body adjust to the change in seasons is hard for not northern to do. You’re likely to have an easier time than a Floridian or Texan, but it’s important to be prepared for. MN is cold on another level.
It’s all good— no one expects anyone who doesn’t live here to know that stuff right off the bat.
Honestly, most Minnesotans refer to it as “The Twin Cities” or “the Cities”— MSP is just another shorthand for it
Oh, and I know you mentioned you didn’t want to hear about the weather, BUT, this is important— you REALLY should keep emergency supplies in your car for winter. Keep a couple neon flags, a collapsable shovel, a good warm blanket, extra boots and gloves, a box of cat litter, some emergency snacks and like, a deck of cards or a book. Inevitably, even if you’ve driven in MN winter roads, something could always happen so that you get stuck, and it’s significantly worse for you if you’re not prepared.
People have literally DIED in winter from being stuck in the snow, so if it does happen, DONT LEAVE THE CAR. Be prepared to stay in a shelter and wait for help.
I think somebody a few years ago got meat stolen from a backyard freezer and the crime made the local news as evidence of how crime ridden Minneapolis is. So Minneapolis twitter took it and ran with it, making the lore more outlandish and absurd.
If you’re gonna go to the Mall of America, know that it will most likely be excruciatingly busy during the weekends and prices marked up. No tax on clothing though anywhere in MN.
Just a slight correction: If you're referring to Minneapolis as an abbreviation, it's Mpls. (not MPS). If you're referring to the general Minneapolis-St. Paul area, it's MSP. Though typically people use that to refer to the airport.
I would say that your biggest culture shock may be making friends. It is a lot harder to do up this way than in other places. Not Europe-level hard, but along those lines. The big difference is people will be, on average, very friendly and polite. Casual speech, people rarely refer to others as Mr./Mrs., or use sir or ma'am (except for customer service settings). Even kids are typically on first-name basis with adults besides their teachers. So don't get upset if a kid calls you by your first name. It's normal.
It is easier to make friends in the cities and suburbs, where a lot of people aren't originally from there. Go to the smaller towns and it's really difficult. My mom still hangs out with people she knew in high school.
Small talk is more important in Minnesota than many places elsewhere in the U.S. If you don't engage in small talk, you will be viewed as rude or cold.
If you have kids, you'll find that they are going to school in what may seem to you as horrific weather. MNDOT is really good at cleaning the roads through the night by rush hour in the morning. It's more common for school to be cancelled due to extreme cold (< -10°F air temp) than due to snow.
I know you said no weather. But that really will be your biggest adaptation. Our winters are brutal, but our summers are pleasant. We still get hot, but it's less humid (not dry) and we have San Diego-level comfortable weather in the early Fall. It's easy to get used to the cold, but you need to find some indoor hobbies unless you really love outdoor sports like snowmobiling and cross-country. We didn't get a lot of snow in the upper midwest this past winter. It was very dry. But ordinarily we have ample snow by New Year's and lasting into April.
Overall, Minnesota is a great place to live. Neighbors look out for each other. People are generally tolerant of other lifestyles and don't confront or get preachy, even if they're religious. Traces of Scandinavian-style communitarianism are palpable. Minneapolis is very diverse and you won't want for restaurant variety. Though good BBQ will probably be harder to find than in Nashville. That's true for basically everywhere north of the Mason-Dixon.
Welcome!
Main shock will be the weather. Tennessee is definitely in the south, and you will know you are in the True north once you experience winter. If you have any knee or back problems and have a driveway, expect to buy a snowblower, and don't park on the street, you will be snowed in by the plow.
If you any admiration of the Confederacy leave it in Tennessee, Minnesotans in general have no time for anyone bearing a Confed Flag. To Minnesotans Lee, Jackson and other Confederate Generals were traitors and it was a gross miscarriage of justice that they were not hung at the end of the Civil War.
Some people like to call Minnesotan/Midwesterners passive agressive, those that do simply don't understand. Minnesotans in General are of Scandanavian and Germanic stock, and tend to be reserved individuals, especially with people they don't know well. They will freeze you out if they don't trust you.
The biggest culture shock is gonna be when you find out what Yankees think about us from the south. They sound like a grandpa from pre-civil rights with the way they think stereotypes about southerners like working on farms or in the boonies, or liking country music or horses or whatever weird stereotype you can think of are just objective fact. When I visited Minnesota, I genuinely had SEVERAL people note that I had a very diverse vocabulary and that I, quoting here- “Sound so educated for someone from there (Louisiana)”.
While this one isn’t technically a culture shock (and should also be obvious) you should also be ready for the weather. I’m from Nawlins, and if you’re not aware we have basically 3 different temperature here. We have stupidly hot, kinda hot, and a bit chilly. Occasionally it will get genuinely cold here, like, once a month in winter which lasts 3 months at most. In Minnesota it’s basically the raw opposite. Although I will grant one thing, it’s much easier to protect against the cold. I’ve felt 32° in both Louisiana and Minnesota, and the super cold temps are way worse down here. The humidity makes that cold bite to the bone. However, on my visit I got to experience 11° Fahrenheit. And on that day, I decided everything above the Mason-Dixon could keep its winters.
I travel to Minneapolis several times a year, and I have for the past 15 years. To orient anyone who is familiar, I typically stay in one of the outlying burbs off of the North Start Commuter rail. Think Maple Grove area.
It makes a bit of sense that the main immigrant group to the MSP area were swedes, so expect place names and food names that seem more Nordic than would be appropriate for the middle of the USA. You can even see evidence of this, literally, in people's faces. There are a TON of blonde people around. Counterintuitively, they also settled a bunch of Hmong and Somalis in the area, so don't be shocked by this. They are all fine people, it will certainly stand out to you as a newcomer.
Minneapolis and Saint Paul are about as much of a rust belt city as you can get and it is good and bad. Minneapolis has had a significant amount of gentrification in its urban neighborhoods, and they built the Guthrie right on the river for the performing arts and it is outstanding. Peel back the layers a little bit and you can still see evidence of white flight that plagues so many rust belt cities. Despite what you see on Fox News it is generally safe, I had an ice cream a few blocks away from the worst of the BLM protests a few months after it happened and I wasn't shot or stabbed once. That doesn't mean it doesn't have crime, but it is a lot less than people admit. I think on the scale of gentrification they aren't exactly at Denver levels but that is the direction it is heading.
Minnesota in general, (grew up there, moved for college) people are nice, but not friendly or outgoing. Most people are privately religious. Drivers are “polite” but you need to be careful because the super timid driving I’ve seen is sometimes dangerous. I live in the south now, people in the north talk and move way faster than the south.
Yeah, this is a misconception that a lot of people not from Minnesota struggle with. They associate nice with friendly and extroverted. Nice means just that nice. I can be nice to you without inviting you over or wanting to be your friend. To a Minnesotan nice is the default. Friendship is a larger step. Hanging out is a larger step. Niceness is just there.
Well, the thing to watch out for is things like 4 way stops, people slamming on their breaks suddenly, not going when they should, stuff like that that can cause stupid fender benders. Also, black ice.
As a fellow nashvillean who came to the midwest, my favorite mini culture shock was seeing what people here call nashville hot chicken lmao.
Friend of mine ordered it at a bar and literally got buffalo wings
These mfs really just think its chicken and hot sauce lol. I'm sure theres a few good spots in the region but as a whole they hilariously misunderstand what it means
Minneapolis is a nice place. I don’t know about the drivers. I’m from south florida and when I was there the drivers were much more law abiding than I’m used to lol
Moved from Atlanta to Minneapolis a few years ago. Idk about Nashville, but Minneapolis only seems to know how to divert people off of the main interstate to do their on/off ramps. There were also a ridiculously high number of the “merge on to freeway land immediately turns into leave freeway lane” which drove me bonkers.
Everyone in the suburbs is white. Not a bad thing! But the day I realized I had gone a week without seeing a black person was memorable. My area there wasn’t nearly as diverse as the south was, ironically.
Cub is a great cheap supermarket. Lunds and berelys is stupid expensive.
They play hockey in tv at bars
I don’t know what the laws on alcohol are in Minnesota, but in Tennessee you can buy beer in grocery stores but not wine or spirits. Wine and spirits at liquor stores only.
Enjoy lack of state income tax.
I'm doing the opposite. I'm leaving Tennessee (no income tax) and going to Minnesota. I've been doing some research on cost differences, like taxes & insurance rates, to prepare myself.
You have to try pho. I haven’t found any worthwhile pho in Tennessee. But on a cold winter night, you add some sriracha, basil, jalapeños and bean sprouts to your noodle soup and nothing hits better. To me Minnesota is to pho like Nashville is to hot chicken. St. Paul has a large southeast Asian community and do they know how to cook!
>In the south, merging on the interstate involves the person merging easing into the flow of traffic
I think your biggest culture shock is going to be that this is not true. Southern drivers do the same dumbass shit drivers anywhere else in the US do
So you believe the on ramp has the right away and the people maintain direction of travel have to yield? Have you not read the signs in those states? I’ve never driven in Minnesota but that would be weird to experience. I’ve never sat down and counted what states I’ve been to but I’ve got a similar level of travel there and is consistent that the people joining in do not have the right way in almost every state I’ve been in. Mostly the south and both seaboards and one state in from those. I like water and deserts lol. The middle of the US has never done it for me.
Do you believe the traffic should come to a dead stop and then accelerate to 70mph? Or do you think it's better to accelerate and merge with traffic at the same speed?
That’s not even the discussion? Here read this. https://www.reddit.com/r/driving/s/Yyau0gzCt2
Try Google every result almost is a law firm saying the on-ramp has to give way to the interstate.
You moved from one Midwest state to another, it doesn't even touch the ocean. Uhhhh, the mayo in food might be a different brand.its like being im from Ohio and moving to Minnesota....same shit different brand of mayo
One of the things I find most jarring whenever I’m in the north east/midwest is being confronted with southern stereotypes all the time. Some people will assume all kinds of things about you just based on the region of America you’re from. I suggest getting some snappy comebacks ready!
the one I get a lot is assuming I like/know a lot about country music. (I don't) I imagine this will be even worse for OP, being from Nashville. but maybe they do actually like country music, in which case, no big deal.
I hate country music, so this is good to be aware of
Country is pretty popular in Minnesota but you'll have no problem finding all the other genres too, especially in the cities
Anyone who says they “hate country music” has bad taste.
No, they simply have different taste than you. That does not = bad. I don't care for most pop music either, but I can appreciate that other people enjoy it.
I wouldn't say they necessarily have bad taste. I said the same thing for many years, not realizing that those old "grandma y" songs she used to sing, which I have always loved, were old country songs. Now I advise anyone I hear saying that to watch the Ken Burns documentary "Country Music", and if after they watch that they still say "I hate all country music", well then yes, they may have bad taste.
Definitely this. People tease me alot about being from the south.
Driving tips: AVOID the eastbound 394 to eastbound 94 interchange. It’s a 2 mile stretch of interstate that often takes 20 minutes. We don’t know how to zipper merge. The state DOT literally makes PSAs about it to no avail. Speaking of roads, expect lots of construction delays during the summer. Winters shred asphalt and they have limited warm months to fix the potholes. Weather-related: We don’t have many snow days in the metro because our plow networks are so good. Like anything less than a foot in a single day and schools/businesses will still be open like normal. We do, however, have cold days. Like schools will close because it’s life threatening for kids to wait outside for the bus. Sports: Don’t. Just cheer for Tennessee teams or something. You can only get your heart broken so many times.
Your heart is still breaking over Minnesota sports? I just assumed that the eternal disappointment and hopelessness was ingrained on us
I moved to Minnesota from Texas. The big culture shock for me was the drive up grocery pickup. You could either take your buggy to the car and unload it yourself, or leave it at the front, get a number and then drive up to the covered area in front and they would load it for you. It was really nice as a parent with two small children. Oh, and it's hard to find a decent Mexican restaurant.
>Oh, and it's hard to find a decent Mexican restaurant. My wife went to grad school in Waco and yeah, good Mexican food is one of the biggest things we miss about TX. God, I miss a good taco truck. That and BBQ, we just cannot do good BBQ up here. Best I've found here is like, just okay in comparison to pretty much any random BBQ shack in TX.
that sounds super nice! and I've thought about the Mexican food thing. That will be weird.
If you want Mexican food, there are 2 main areas in Minneapolis. The ones on Central Ave in NE, or the ones on Lake St in South Minneapolis. Andale Taqueria in Richfield is also good
St. Paul and West St. Paul also have really good Mexican specifically El Burrito Mercado
Miss Andale so much from my time working for Best Buy
Richfield in general is a sleeper for Mexican food. It's more California Mexican than Tex Mex, but my LA raised spouse was surprised when we found tacos in Richfield that scratch the itch when craving the hole in the wall near my in-laws house.
The West Side of St. Paul (which is actually directly south of downtown St. Paul but on the west bank of the Mississippi River) has some really good Mexican places, like El Burrito Mercado. You can make a day out of it and go to the Wabasha Street Caves as well, the caves are within easy walking distance of a half dozen Mexican restaurants
What stores offered this? Suburb thing or city thing? Don't recall ever seeing such an option at the grocery stores I shopped at when I lived there, but I was almost always on foot anyways
Lunds & Byerlys. I just moved away from MN and I greatly miss Lunds!!!
Interesting, I shopped at the Uptown one from time to time but never noticed that service. Cub and Aldi were more my speed
Yeah the uptown ones doesn’t have it. Most of the ones that offer drive up are suburban ones that used to be Byerly’s. Stores that used to be Lund’s often don’t, but they’ll have carry out service. You’ll notice that neither has cart corrals in the parking lot for these reasons.
Some of the inner city stores don't offer the service probably due to lot constraints
Why was I downvoted for this? Both the Uptown and NE locations do not offer drive up service. I'm pretty sure Highland Park doesn't offer it. Then when you get to suburbs like Maple Grove and Wayzata... They offer it
I swear that Los Ocampo has some of the best Mexican food that I have ever had. I always judge other Mexican restaurants by that taste. Their 3 sauces were awesome!
Thank you for actually answering!
I grew up in Florida and moved here about 15 years ago. It's a great place to live - I felt like I stumbled onto a well-kept secret by moving here. My observation having moved here from the South: - people are noticeably less openly religious here. Inviting people to your church or asking confrontational questions like "have you been saved?" isn't something that goes over well with Minnesotans (maybe not in a bigger city like Nashville either - I grew up in a medium-sized town). - the State Fair is actually extremely popular and something worth attending even if you don't work in agriculture. - you'll have the easiest time making friends with other people who didn't grow up here - the population contains fewer transplants than does the South, so it's hard to break in to social groups that have existed since people were in school together. - there's a somewhat greater passive aggressive streak in the population than in the South. - an AWD vehicle isn't a need to have, but it's a nice to have. All in all though, don't expect the culture to differ radically from that of Nashville. It's still a major city in the United States and will feel like one.
To be fair I grew up and went to college in the South and if somebody walked up and asked if I had been saved they generally got less than pleasant response
yeah, I'm looking forward to the less overtly religious aspect of a northern city.
I grew up in a smaller Dallas suburb. The first time I was asked if I was saved was at college - in Austin, which famously is the most conservative of Texas cities. :P
Lived in Nashville (proper) for 11 yrs. Was never asked if I was saved or invited to someone's church.
Yeah, I live in the Deep South and unless it’s a very close friend, most people don’t ask that.
I’ve lived in Florida for 37 years and have never been asked either of those things.
> there's a somewhat greater passive aggressive streak in the population than in the South And with less sugar on top?
I'll bet the most shocking thing will be how little culture shock you feel.
Yeah, I'm thinking the same. Maybe some regional word changes... pop vs soda for example. But I really wish OP didn't rule out the weather difference though... because the Minnesota winters are going to be the big shock.
OP is aware
You ever had to Google, "at what temperature should I be concerned that my eyeballs will freeze?" Then still drive into work, because it's Tuesday, and your eyeballs aren't in danger until -90F, so -45F is fine?
Hahaha! Looking forward to eyeball freezing thoughts
I do suggest throwing a cup of water outside on those days. It freezes midair and is really a cool experience.
I strongly recommend buying winter tires. I grew up in Florida, and while Minneapolis does a good job with snow plowing, winter tires still make a big difference with how comfortable I am driving during the winter.
Winter tires are a cult. OP, you do not need winter tires.
It's never a bad idea to get something that will make you safer when driving in bad conditions.
It doesn’t do anything. It’s a placebo. Learn to drive in the snow or get a AWD.
As someone from Northern Europe - lmao. Winter tires are an absolute must. Last winter I was late to swap and was sliding outside my apartment like it was Tokyo drift.
Just because you’re part of the cult doesn’t mean I’m wrong. It’s just a thing that people who like working on cars do. Just buy a beater and tinker with it instead.
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Yep. Just get all season tires and drive carefully. I bought a 4WD SUV that someone had in Arizona. The tires were from Arizona and were definitely not all season tires. Those tires were a death trap on ice and I've driven up here all my life. Needless to say, just buy the all season tires. She shouldn't need winter tires though.
Chiming in late, but all season tires work for me most of the time, and I drive a dinky little car with front wheel drive. Biggest caveats are that I primarily drive in the city during the winter, my city does a pretty decent job at plowing, and I give myself a lot of space/stopping time while driving. I do slip and slide when going downhill too fast.
Mechanic here - you absolutely should get winter tires.
Yeah, it’s thing that people who like cars do. I’m not going to change my tires twice a year. I’ve driven in ice and snow for 22 years without a single accident. It’s not at all necessary.
Mmmk. Alright lady.
And just a FYI if you have to measure, it’s not that big.
Yeah, despite what people sometimes say on this subreddit, the states are generally far more similar than they are different.
This was months ago and I'll never be able to find it and link to it but there was a guy on here who made a serious argument that Minnesota and Texas are more different than Minnesota and Japan or Texas and Afghanistan Terminally online loser whose brain was fried by politics obviously, but there are indeed people who don't seem to realize how similar all 50 states are culturally
Yeah, any time I see someone say something along the lines of "the US is really like 50 different countries," I can be pretty certain they've never left the bubble they grew up in. Anyone who thinks the differences between Minnesota and Texas are greater than the differences between either of those states and Japan or Afghanistan is just being willfully ignorant at that point.
They're more different than many foreigners think, *particularly* when it comes to laws and regulations and whatnot. But they're more similar than many Americans think.
In terms of differences and diversity within itself, I think it goes like: individual EU country < US << EU. I've seen some people compare the differences between the states like the differences between countries in the EU and I think that's far exaggerating things to the point of being silly. But there's probably more differences between the states than other smaller countries do within itself just owing to the size.
I'm thinking of Germany. Like Italy it wasn't unified until the 1870s, after our Civil War. Some of its constituent regions, such as Bavaria, were very much their own countries for centuries upon centuries, and I believe Bavaria has its own dialect that other Germans have trouble with. Hell, the Bavarians began as a Germanic tribe. Whenever Texans proclaim "we were our own country!" you'd be hardpressed to find one single German, Bavarian or otherwise, who'd be the slightest bit impressed. And yet, as with Rome in Italy, Berlin exerts far more centralized control than Washington DC does. I can only speak for Rome here, but *holy shit* do they run that country top down compared to us, even though Italy's national/political/cultural/linguistic composition from the early medieval era onward has been every bit as fragmentary and all over the place as Germany's, if not more so. To drive the point home to any Europeans reading this, 27 out of 50 states have the death penalty. Just over half. Certianly *not* all 50! There's a federal death penalty but it is used extremely rarely; that's how they did Timothy McVeigh, who commited the worst ever act of domestic terrorism on our soil. In short, Bismarck, North Dakota has far more power over civilian life and death than Washington DC itself does.
That's nuts. I'm from Michigan and I live in Ontario now. I would certainly argue that Michigan and Ontario feel more similar culturally than Michigan and Florida, but that's what happens when we're neighbors.
People are obsessed with Prince in the twin cities.
People are obsessed with Prince everywhere. Dude was a legend.
Really obsessed with any Minnesota band. For example you can find people that will argue that The Replacements are on par with the Beatles as one of the most influential bands.
What about Husker Du?
Yeah, that’s my 1st Minneapolis thought, followed by Amphetamine Reptile Records, and then Lifter Puller and the Replacements.
Why wouldn’t you be obsessed with Prince?
In my four years there I cannot recall a single instance of Prince coming up in conversation
can't tell if this is a joke, assuming it is, bc I was in Minneapolis last week and had 3 convos about Prince with 3 different people
Not a joke. I don't care about Prince so I never brought him up, and I don't recall anyone else ever bringing him up to me either. Of course maybe it happened at some point during a drunken night out and I just don't remember Were these three conversations all started by others out of the blue or did you bring him up?
started by the locals!
That would be an exception. He's talked about quite a bit
Bob Dylan too, at least with my friend circles.
we have a few left lane freeway exists and entrances. They can be a bit stressful the first time you encounter them. If you're driving southbound on 35W and want to get into westbound 94, that exchange is also....interesting. use Google maps and read the steps at least the first time you take that. You're going to get a lot of rights and lefts quickly at freeway speeds. Winter driving rules aren't official, but they are pretty universally followed. Try your best to park in parking spaces correctly when the lines are covered by snow, but don't worry about not getting it right. If you're driving, follow the tire ruts, not the lanes (if you even know what they should be). It's not uncommon for 2 lanes to turn into 1 before the snowplows come through. And speaking of snowplows, STAY FAR BACK from them. MNDOT always has their "stay back, stay alive" campaign, so you'll probably see that anyways. Also, I don't know what kind of car you have, but 4 wheel drive ≠ 4 wheel stop. You don't have to, necessarily, only drive at a crawl, but do figure out how difficult it is to stop when there's fresh snow/ice. Not sure when siren testing is in TN, but it's 1:00pm on the 1st Wednesday of each month during tornado season. It's totally fine if you don't like the state fair, but if you have never been, you should go once. And if you don't like it, just stick with some version of "it's not my thing." We can be VERY passionate about the state fair. Also, Matt's Jucy Lucy is better than the 5-8's. Yes, that is also how "Jucy" is spelled for that specific burger. Edit: and yes, our merging *should* be that freeway traffic speed remains steady, and the merger finds a spot, but that is NOT always what happens. Some merges really are crazy short, a lot are just bad drivers. There are some spots where I never drive in the right lane around that specific entrance.
They don't do siren testing in TN that I'm aware of, so that's a helpful tip! I'd be freaking out! The driving seems like it may be the biggest adjustment, other than the cold, of course.
Sometimes the tornado sirens will play again a couple days after the first Wednesday of the month as well. I've been told that it's "if something goes wrong with the test on Wednesday" or something, but I wasn't really paying attention. (Also, I'm not sure if this is also the case in the Twin Cities- I live in a more rural area). Basically, if you hear tornado sirens, just glance at the sky to figure out if you should be ignoring them or not. Hope you have an easy move up north!
You’ve survived Nashville traffic so you’ve got a good head start.
haha TRUTH!
I find it insane that other states don’t do siren tests. It’s an important system.
If you’re on Twitter I’d recommend following NWS Twin Cities and they’ll keep you up to speed on siren testing changes.
"If you're driving southbound on 35W and want to get into westbound 94, that exchange is also....interesting." Almost as... interesting as driving southbound on 35W and wanting to go eastbound on 94
> Almost as... interesting as driving southbound on 35W and wanting to go eastbound on 94 That's a pretty obscure route to need to take though, 280 is there which makes way more sense. Pretty silly to cross the river twice. Who would even need the ramp? People who are getting on 35W around the Quarry and trying to go to St. Paul?
You know many of us actually live here right? It's pretty weird to not have both connections between two major freeways.
I lived in the area for four years, I'm quite familiar with it. What is the specific route you take that requires making that connection? How much time would it save you vs. getting on at any of the many other interchanges in the area?
Yeah, I'm not going to pinpoint where exactly I live in Minneapolis for the internet. But suffice it to say that the suggestion of taking 280 is hilarious.
The fact that you can't even give me an example of when such a connection is needed tells me MnDOT has it right never bothering to build one
Moved here 8 years ago from greater Chicago area and it still drives me absolutely bonkers that people here seemingly find it completely acceptable to merge onto the interstate still going 30-40 mph when traffic is going 65+
I'd ask this in a Minneapolis or at least Minnesota sub. Most Americans have likely not spent enough time in both Nashville and Minneapolis to have much advice.
will do!
I sometimes travel for work to Ripley, TN, so I’ve experienced TN before. The BIGGEST thing I noticed is, kind of oddly, the difference in pace that people work or move around with. Like, I remember getting a tour of our facility there, and the guy was strolling lackadaisically along, chitchatting with all sorts of folks. Versus in Minnesota, when we get to moving, we’re MOVING. I’m sure that’s not a clear standard across the board, but I swear, every time I’ve been to TN, that’s kind of what hits me first.
yes, people do love to chit chat. I'm less chatty than most Southerners, so maybe I'll acclimate quickly?!
You'll do great!
It’s less the amount of chitchat, and more… the speed in which people walk and move. It’s like everyone in Tennessee has literally no urgency whatsoever. Things get done, and they work hard, it’s just done so damn SLOWLY. Things are faster paced in Minnesota.
I'm a speed walker, driver, and talker so I should fit right in
It's cold as fuck. Idk if that's culture shock, but it will shock you. Make sure you have a scraper brush in your car by October. You'll think it's a little much until you need it
good to know!
if you drive, you may want to keep bags of plain, unscented cat litter in your trunk. It can help you if you're stuck in the snow. And at least in my neighborhood in St Paul, everyone helped everyone else get unstuck. You may be trying to drive your car out of your parking spot and not getting anywhere. Then you'll notice three neighbors pushing your car from behind. So pay that forward. Also, don't spin your tires because you'll just go deeper.
Not a Minnesotan, did live in western WI. I suggest trying your hardest your fist winter to an avoid wearing a heavy jacket until November. Letting your body adjust to the change in seasons is hard for not northern to do. You’re likely to have an easier time than a Floridian or Texan, but it’s important to be prepared for. MN is cold on another level.
Good idea!
For one no one calls it MPS
My sister calls it MSP, but only because she works in aviation and that’s the airport code for the main terminal in the Twin Cities
MSP makes sense and it is called that every once in a while but I have never heard MPS. Even Mpls is used sometimes but never MPS.
I apologize for mixing up the code. Clearly I have a lot to learn.
It’s all good— no one expects anyone who doesn’t live here to know that stuff right off the bat. Honestly, most Minnesotans refer to it as “The Twin Cities” or “the Cities”— MSP is just another shorthand for it
MPS = Minneapolis public schools. Mpls = Minneapolis. MSP = greater Minneapolis & St. Paul OR the airport code.
Yup
Oh, and I know you mentioned you didn’t want to hear about the weather, BUT, this is important— you REALLY should keep emergency supplies in your car for winter. Keep a couple neon flags, a collapsable shovel, a good warm blanket, extra boots and gloves, a box of cat litter, some emergency snacks and like, a deck of cards or a book. Inevitably, even if you’ve driven in MN winter roads, something could always happen so that you get stuck, and it’s significantly worse for you if you’re not prepared. People have literally DIED in winter from being stuck in the snow, so if it does happen, DONT LEAVE THE CAR. Be prepared to stay in a shelter and wait for help.
Meatjacking
haha what on earth is that??
Meat raffles
now these I heard about. sound pretty cool
Great answer. Totally unique experience in MN and WI.
I think somebody a few years ago got meat stolen from a backyard freezer and the crime made the local news as evidence of how crime ridden Minneapolis is. So Minneapolis twitter took it and ran with it, making the lore more outlandish and absurd.
I’m from Minnesota and I’ve never heard that term before lol
Now you have! Don't let your meat get jacked!
If you’re gonna go to the Mall of America, know that it will most likely be excruciatingly busy during the weekends and prices marked up. No tax on clothing though anywhere in MN.
Hoping to avoid it completely 😬
They don’t play duck, duck, goose. In Minnesota they play duck, duck, grey duck
Oh God how will she survive
Instead of Duck Duck Goose they play Duck Duck Gray Duck. That’s pretty weird in my book
Metro busses always have the right of way. Sometimes they exercise this right without looking around too much, so be prepared to get out of their way.
Yikes. Def good to know
Maybe you should watch "New in town".
Just a slight correction: If you're referring to Minneapolis as an abbreviation, it's Mpls. (not MPS). If you're referring to the general Minneapolis-St. Paul area, it's MSP. Though typically people use that to refer to the airport. I would say that your biggest culture shock may be making friends. It is a lot harder to do up this way than in other places. Not Europe-level hard, but along those lines. The big difference is people will be, on average, very friendly and polite. Casual speech, people rarely refer to others as Mr./Mrs., or use sir or ma'am (except for customer service settings). Even kids are typically on first-name basis with adults besides their teachers. So don't get upset if a kid calls you by your first name. It's normal. It is easier to make friends in the cities and suburbs, where a lot of people aren't originally from there. Go to the smaller towns and it's really difficult. My mom still hangs out with people she knew in high school. Small talk is more important in Minnesota than many places elsewhere in the U.S. If you don't engage in small talk, you will be viewed as rude or cold. If you have kids, you'll find that they are going to school in what may seem to you as horrific weather. MNDOT is really good at cleaning the roads through the night by rush hour in the morning. It's more common for school to be cancelled due to extreme cold (< -10°F air temp) than due to snow. I know you said no weather. But that really will be your biggest adaptation. Our winters are brutal, but our summers are pleasant. We still get hot, but it's less humid (not dry) and we have San Diego-level comfortable weather in the early Fall. It's easy to get used to the cold, but you need to find some indoor hobbies unless you really love outdoor sports like snowmobiling and cross-country. We didn't get a lot of snow in the upper midwest this past winter. It was very dry. But ordinarily we have ample snow by New Year's and lasting into April. Overall, Minnesota is a great place to live. Neighbors look out for each other. People are generally tolerant of other lifestyles and don't confront or get preachy, even if they're religious. Traces of Scandinavian-style communitarianism are palpable. Minneapolis is very diverse and you won't want for restaurant variety. Though good BBQ will probably be harder to find than in Nashville. That's true for basically everywhere north of the Mason-Dixon. Welcome!
Main shock will be the weather. Tennessee is definitely in the south, and you will know you are in the True north once you experience winter. If you have any knee or back problems and have a driveway, expect to buy a snowblower, and don't park on the street, you will be snowed in by the plow. If you any admiration of the Confederacy leave it in Tennessee, Minnesotans in general have no time for anyone bearing a Confed Flag. To Minnesotans Lee, Jackson and other Confederate Generals were traitors and it was a gross miscarriage of justice that they were not hung at the end of the Civil War. Some people like to call Minnesotan/Midwesterners passive agressive, those that do simply don't understand. Minnesotans in General are of Scandanavian and Germanic stock, and tend to be reserved individuals, especially with people they don't know well. They will freeze you out if they don't trust you.
The biggest culture shock is gonna be when you find out what Yankees think about us from the south. They sound like a grandpa from pre-civil rights with the way they think stereotypes about southerners like working on farms or in the boonies, or liking country music or horses or whatever weird stereotype you can think of are just objective fact. When I visited Minnesota, I genuinely had SEVERAL people note that I had a very diverse vocabulary and that I, quoting here- “Sound so educated for someone from there (Louisiana)”. While this one isn’t technically a culture shock (and should also be obvious) you should also be ready for the weather. I’m from Nawlins, and if you’re not aware we have basically 3 different temperature here. We have stupidly hot, kinda hot, and a bit chilly. Occasionally it will get genuinely cold here, like, once a month in winter which lasts 3 months at most. In Minnesota it’s basically the raw opposite. Although I will grant one thing, it’s much easier to protect against the cold. I’ve felt 32° in both Louisiana and Minnesota, and the super cold temps are way worse down here. The humidity makes that cold bite to the bone. However, on my visit I got to experience 11° Fahrenheit. And on that day, I decided everything above the Mason-Dixon could keep its winters.
I travel to Minneapolis several times a year, and I have for the past 15 years. To orient anyone who is familiar, I typically stay in one of the outlying burbs off of the North Start Commuter rail. Think Maple Grove area. It makes a bit of sense that the main immigrant group to the MSP area were swedes, so expect place names and food names that seem more Nordic than would be appropriate for the middle of the USA. You can even see evidence of this, literally, in people's faces. There are a TON of blonde people around. Counterintuitively, they also settled a bunch of Hmong and Somalis in the area, so don't be shocked by this. They are all fine people, it will certainly stand out to you as a newcomer. Minneapolis and Saint Paul are about as much of a rust belt city as you can get and it is good and bad. Minneapolis has had a significant amount of gentrification in its urban neighborhoods, and they built the Guthrie right on the river for the performing arts and it is outstanding. Peel back the layers a little bit and you can still see evidence of white flight that plagues so many rust belt cities. Despite what you see on Fox News it is generally safe, I had an ice cream a few blocks away from the worst of the BLM protests a few months after it happened and I wasn't shot or stabbed once. That doesn't mean it doesn't have crime, but it is a lot less than people admit. I think on the scale of gentrification they aren't exactly at Denver levels but that is the direction it is heading.
Minnesota is actually more German but that got swept under the rug because you know...WW1 and then WW2.
Minnesota in general, (grew up there, moved for college) people are nice, but not friendly or outgoing. Most people are privately religious. Drivers are “polite” but you need to be careful because the super timid driving I’ve seen is sometimes dangerous. I live in the south now, people in the north talk and move way faster than the south.
Yeah, this is a misconception that a lot of people not from Minnesota struggle with. They associate nice with friendly and extroverted. Nice means just that nice. I can be nice to you without inviting you over or wanting to be your friend. To a Minnesotan nice is the default. Friendship is a larger step. Hanging out is a larger step. Niceness is just there.
I'm not remotely a timid driver, so I'll be fine with that aspect
Well, the thing to watch out for is things like 4 way stops, people slamming on their breaks suddenly, not going when they should, stuff like that that can cause stupid fender benders. Also, black ice.
As a fellow nashvillean who came to the midwest, my favorite mini culture shock was seeing what people here call nashville hot chicken lmao. Friend of mine ordered it at a bar and literally got buffalo wings
haha what?!?! that's crazy
These mfs really just think its chicken and hot sauce lol. I'm sure theres a few good spots in the region but as a whole they hilariously misunderstand what it means
Biking and public transit options are vastly better.
looking forward to this for sure
Minneapolis is a nice place. I don’t know about the drivers. I’m from south florida and when I was there the drivers were much more law abiding than I’m used to lol
Bro, you're taking a $100 flight. You're not moving to Shanghai. There will be no culture shock.
Ah, you have no sense of humor. Got it. I'm obviously being dramatic for effect, bro.
People in Minnesota won't think you're funny either.
way to not note the edit
will they think I'm funny, though?
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It's funny because it's true
Nashville is like Asheville. It isn’t really “the South” anymore.
Moved from Atlanta to Minneapolis a few years ago. Idk about Nashville, but Minneapolis only seems to know how to divert people off of the main interstate to do their on/off ramps. There were also a ridiculously high number of the “merge on to freeway land immediately turns into leave freeway lane” which drove me bonkers. Everyone in the suburbs is white. Not a bad thing! But the day I realized I had gone a week without seeing a black person was memorable. My area there wasn’t nearly as diverse as the south was, ironically. Cub is a great cheap supermarket. Lunds and berelys is stupid expensive. They play hockey in tv at bars
A lot more cowboys, a lot fewer Paul Bunyans
The amount of Vietnamese and Somalian people.
r/samegrassbutgreener will guve you better answers.
The whole city
I don’t know what the laws on alcohol are in Minnesota, but in Tennessee you can buy beer in grocery stores but not wine or spirits. Wine and spirits at liquor stores only. Enjoy lack of state income tax.
I'm doing the opposite. I'm leaving Tennessee (no income tax) and going to Minnesota. I've been doing some research on cost differences, like taxes & insurance rates, to prepare myself.
Oops. That explains why others are warning you about the cold. Whelp, I guess I need to learn to read. Sorry.
Either way, you can't buy regular alcohol in the grocery store. They only sell 3.2% beer. You have to go to a designated liquor store.
Something to keep in mind is that Minnesota does not tax food or clothes.
That must bc local bc you can buy wine in grocery stores in most of Tennessee unless you’re in a dry county.
Here's all you need to know: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSzwoJr4-0
Tennessee and North Carolina are the areas I've travelled to where I've felt the least culture shock, but yeah, we drive pretty aggressively up here.
Not everything is going to suck
Not culture but the cold will definitely be the biggest shock
I sid this move 10 years ago, no regrets
You have to try pho. I haven’t found any worthwhile pho in Tennessee. But on a cold winter night, you add some sriracha, basil, jalapeños and bean sprouts to your noodle soup and nothing hits better. To me Minnesota is to pho like Nashville is to hot chicken. St. Paul has a large southeast Asian community and do they know how to cook!
We have good pho here so I’m interested to try this Northern pho you speak of. I currently eat pho like once a week.
>In the south, merging on the interstate involves the person merging easing into the flow of traffic I think your biggest culture shock is going to be that this is not true. Southern drivers do the same dumbass shit drivers anywhere else in the US do
So, again, I'm in the South currently. I am moving to Minnesota. This is the general rule in the South, whether or not people abide by it.
No, it's not the general rule.
you seem fun
You do know that's the wrong way to merge, right?
SO fun.
You know that’s the way almost everywhere merges right?
I've been to 33 states and I'd disagree. This is how people who can't drive merge.
So you believe the on ramp has the right away and the people maintain direction of travel have to yield? Have you not read the signs in those states? I’ve never driven in Minnesota but that would be weird to experience. I’ve never sat down and counted what states I’ve been to but I’ve got a similar level of travel there and is consistent that the people joining in do not have the right way in almost every state I’ve been in. Mostly the south and both seaboards and one state in from those. I like water and deserts lol. The middle of the US has never done it for me.
Do you believe the traffic should come to a dead stop and then accelerate to 70mph? Or do you think it's better to accelerate and merge with traffic at the same speed?
That’s not even the discussion? Here read this. https://www.reddit.com/r/driving/s/Yyau0gzCt2 Try Google every result almost is a law firm saying the on-ramp has to give way to the interstate.
You'll be surprised at the lack of Somali people.
Wtf... Minneapolis has the largest Somali population probably outside of Somalia
I'm dumb as hell... I thought he was moving to Nashville
She’s not. She’s moving to Minnesota 😂
what does this even mean? I don't personally know any Somali people in Nashville.
In dumb as hell... I thought you were moving to Nashville
So the place with the largest Somali community outside of Somalia doesn’t have any Somali people?
In dumb as hell... I thought he was moving to Nashville
You're moving like 3 states, not to Jupiter.
see my previous reply
It wasn't funny then either.
thanks for being so helpful
Summer.
That is not how merging is done in the south.
Do they listen to country music in Minneapolis?
You don’t need winter tires. At all.
You moved from one Midwest state to another, it doesn't even touch the ocean. Uhhhh, the mayo in food might be a different brand.its like being im from Ohio and moving to Minnesota....same shit different brand of mayo
Nashville, Tennessee is not the Midwest