Would you rather live in Brooklyn Center or Rogers?

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Brooklyn Center
Bush 36.71%
Kerry 62.04%
Other 1.26%

Rogers
Bush 65.51%
Kerry 33.88%
Other 0.61%

Brooklyn Center by far. Rogers is quite possibly the most nightmarish hellhole I've ever seen.

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the stats are in the link.



that's something you don't see too often.

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Minnesota Secretary of State site

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It's good to see that BRTD doesn't hate all suburbs anymore, just those that vote Republican.

Brooklyn Center may technically be a suburb but so is Camden, it's definately not a suburban area and is well known as a center of gang activity.

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give me gangs over perfect identical looking McMansions any day.

It's also about aesthetic. The area I live in doesn't really have high crime, but it's rather slummish. All of the apartments are fairly run down. I like it that way, the same way some people like clothes with holes in them. I could never live in any of the apartments next to where I work, which are very new and fancy looking.

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I lived on an Indian Reservation until I was 8, and then I moved to Bismarck, ND (note: check the results of Burleigh county in the Atlas. Blech.)

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there are no gangs in my city, and we have one of the highest rates of drug use in the state.

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1) kind of a "mini-metro"
2) people making or growing them themselves, they got a huge problem with homemade meth over in semi-rural Austin about 60 miles to the east.

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you lock your door at night, you always keep your car doors locked and you stay out of dangerous areas when it's dark. very easy. My friend who lives in north Minneapolis (which is what Brooklyn Center borders and is even more gang and crime-ridden) is having no problems.

Truth is though, I just want to live somewhere where as many people hate Bush as possible. over 57% of the people in my general area hate Bush judging from precinct results, and over 62% hate Bush in Brooklyn Center, and over 85% hate Bush in my friend's part of north Minneapolis. Way better than places where people actually like Bush.

Also, let's face it, would Republicans want to have me around? See, I'm doing everyone a favor by refusing to live in conservative areas.

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There aren't any super-wealthy areas in Minnesota that vote Democratic, but that's really a non-issue because I couldn't afford to live in such areas anyway, and even though I could probably make around $70k a year a few years out of college I'd rather live in the city and spend the money on other things than buy a really expensive house and be surrounded by people I hate. I don't even want a house to be honest. My apartment is fine.

If you're talking about safe liberal areas, you do have places like Columbia Heights, Richfield and Spring Lake Park. However, the aethsthetic in Minneapolis is FAR superior to those places. In fact, the only other suburb than Brooklyn Center I wouldn't mind living in is Lauderdale, which is nustled right between Minneapolis and St. Paul, is so small you can literally drive through it in only about 5 minutes, and is virtually indestinguishable from the nearby cities. If it wasn't for signs you see when entering, you wouldn't even know it exists. And it voted 70% for Kerry.

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There aren't any super-wealthy areas in Minnesota that vote Democratic, but that's really a non-issue because I couldn't afford to live in such areas anyway, and even though I could probably make around $70k a year a few years out of college I'd rather live in the city and spend the money on other things than buy a really expensive house and be surrounded by people I hate. I don't even want a house to be honest. My apartment is fine.

If you're talking about safe liberal areas, you do have places like Columbia Heights, Richfield and Spring Lake Park. However, the aethsthetic in Minneapolis is FAR superior to those places. In fact, the only other suburb than Brooklyn Center I wouldn't mind living in is Lauderdale, which is nustled right between Minneapolis and St. Paul, is so small you can literally drive through it in only about 5 minutes, and is virtually indestinguishable from the nearby cities. If it wasn't for signs you see when entering, you wouldn't even know it exists. And it voted 70% for Kerry.

5 minutes? That's about 3 miles, which isn't too small of a city.

But those places sound good, too. Still, they aren't quite as rich as, say, Mercer Island.

I think you'd like Seattle a lot. 80%+ Kerry, urban, not all that crimey, although getting an apartment might cost a bit. There's also nice apartments in the Democratic suburbs, too.

What is it about cities named things like Spring Lake Park and Lake Forest Park? They always seem to be liberal for some reason.

it is small when you take into account the traffic, lights and stop signs. the total area of Lauderdale is 0.4 sq. miles.

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For the record, Rogers is in a state House district which elected a Rep. which until he was removed by losing the party endorsement last election was known for sponsoring a bill that would legalize discrimination against gays, claiming it would stop Minnesota from "becoming another Africa." He also made the claim gays were not persecuted in the Holocaust, and protested a visit from the Dalai Llama to Minnesota, referring to him as a "cult leader"

Sorry that I'd rather live around gangs that the disgusting people in Rogers who'd elect such a moron.

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a girl i knew my freshman year was from International Falls. she liked it because they got to drink in Canada.

I actually think my apartment complex might be bigger than Lauderdale now that it's aquired the one next to us. I think the only reason that's a seperate city is when the planning was done they didn't know where else to put it, it doesn't really symmetrically fit with Minneapolis or St. Paul.

I'm still pretty sure there are no gangs here since most of the drug users are yuppies and college kids. There might be some people with connections to Twin Cities ones though and that's probably where most of the narcotics come from.

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They probably are, but like I said, one based out of the Twin Cities, not all the way down here. I've never seen any group of people gathered resembling a gang.