In addition to past ranking successes like livability, place to raise a family, green living, biking, and more, it turns out that the Twin Cities are fun, too. Bizjournals.com-the nation's largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers, including the Minnneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal-gave the Twin Cities a rank of 7 out of 50 metro areas in their "fun city" poll.
We're no Las Vegas, but we ranked 6th in gambling. We're no Boston, but we ranked 9th in shopping. We're no New York, but we ranked 13th in culture. It's these across-the-board good scores that helped us ahead of warm-weather locales like Phoenix, Miami, and Houston. We do pretty well in all categories measured for fun, which included gambling, sports (high and low impact), shopping, culture, popular entertainment, and food and drink.
Top 10 Fun Cities
- New York
- Boston
- Chicago
- Los Angeles
- Seattle
- San Francisco-Oakdale
- Minneapolis-St. Paul
- Pittsburgh
- Philadelphia
- Providence
Why it's a fun place: Forget the jokes about ice fishing. Minneapolis-St. Paul offers plenty of opportunities for fun, ranking 15th or better in every single category. The famous Mall of America is located here, which helps to explains why the Twin Cities region is one of the 10 best for shopping.
Category rankings (out of 50 markets)
- Shopping: 9th
- Food and drink: 15th
- Culture: 13th
- Popular entertainment: 14th
- Gambling: 6th
- High-impact sports: 7th
- Low-impact sports: 12th
Fun Fact: Minneapolis-St. Paul has 1.72 movie complexes per 100,000 residents. Only Salt Lake City and San Francisco do better. Full Story
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