Minneapolis

Taking the L means something different there

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That would be a tragedy. There is no Chicago without the L. It’s part of the fabric of our civic identity. Here, you don’t say “downtown.” You say “the Loop,” because the buildings that form our skyline couldn’t have grown so tall without the circle of elevated railways beneath them. A great city doesn’t just deserve a great transit system — it needs one. But getting the L back to being a source of pride will mean tapping into the same ingenuity that made it a triumph of civic engineering in the first place.

Source: Doors Closing – Chicago Magazine

The L is what makes visits to Chicago feel so nice for us— we don’t have to worry about how we’ll get somewhere. We just have to allow for enough time for us to get there. But now, in the criminal trump regime, the L stands to become an artifact of the past given politician’s lack of gonads to get it fixed and give it a future for everyone.

Minneapolis looks at Chicago in envy. Minneapolis took the L and strong boy mayor Frey guy means to have it keep taking the L.

In Chicago, it’s not the same story.

For once MPLS is in the news for something other than scary PoC crime

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“So if you want a California-style housing crisis, don’t do anything. But if you want to avoid the fate of states like California, learn some of the lessons of what we’ve been doing over the last few years and allow for more of that infill, mixed-income housing.”

Source: A housing shortage in the U.S. is leading to zoning changes : NPR

We don’t own a car, instead we bike; we bike year round. In Minneapolis this means we’ll bike in sub-zero Fahrenheit weather during winter.

Every time I think about living anywhere else in the continental United States, it is the cost of housing that stops me. Here in Minneapolis I work two jobs so I can afford my lifestyle; anywhere else I would have two jobs just to survive.

Also Strong Boy Mayor Frey Guy did the most to prevent these changes from happening, so fuck him and his coterie of bitchass motherfuckers

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