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[ilikeverin]

To provide people a place to live outside the city is stupid, the city is where everything interesting is, why go there just to work?

Can you honestly not comprehend the thought that other people might have different opinions on the matter?

I don't think he can.  He completely ignores the fact that I live quite contentedly in one of the "McMansion sprawling hell suburbs" (well, my suburb isn't 'sprawling', but I'm fairly confident he'd call it a 'McMansion hell'), and find it neither awful nor boring, and certainly not 'ugly'.  'Ugly' is inner city Minneapolis.  (though FWIW downtown is decent)

[ilikeverin]

Have you ever been to Shakopee or Eden Prairie or Maple Grove?

Of course, silly.  Shakopee has Valleyfair, Eden Prairie had some sort of academic event (now that's a sprawling hell, the interstate out to there was horrible, and we had to drive for like 20 minutes to find any sort of restaurant ), and I have some friends in Maple Grove.  I don't see anything really wrong with them, though (besides Eden Prairie's frightening lack of restaurants... even fast food restaurants!).  When was the last time you went to Maple Grove?  It develops really quickly, so it has probably changed since you've seen it last