This is Minnesota, the "Land of 10,000 + Lakes"! Beautiful scenery - the Fall colors are right there at the top when you compare states. The Winter is crisp and fresh with beautiful snowfalls that blanket the ground and trees in a cloak of white and some mornings the trees and bushes glitter and shimmer in the morning sun. Springtime with the crabapple blossems compares favorably with the dogwood of the south and cherry blossoms in our nations capital. Certainly more beautiful than a lot of places I can think of. Summer is, well, summer. Some days are perfect and others are either too hot or too cold depending on where you came from originally. Me, I came from Arkansas.
My home town of Plymouth, Minnesota is the #1 place to live according to Money magazine list of 10 best places to live in the "whole" country. Then WHY doesn't Minnesota have more than one company,Mayo, in the top "100 Best Companies to Work For" according to Moody as published in Forbes.
Thankfully Minneapolis/St Paul is not among the 25 Weakest Housing Markets in the U.S but neither are we among the 25 Strongest Housing Markets. Why, even in my home state of Arkansas there is a city over 500,000 that is Number 9 under Strongest Markets and with the prediction that home sale prices will only change 1.7% to the bottom.
We are "Minnesota Nice", we are the stable "Mid West", we are well educated, we spend a lot of money on our education system, we have wonderful parks and ammenities for people to enjoy, we are a great place for people from other parts of the country to move. At least that is what I've been told. Why?
What do you think? Why aren't we at the top in all the polls and lists? Why aren't we one of the top 25 strongest Real Estate Markets? Why don't we have several companies headquartered in Minnesota that are among the Top 100 or even the Top 10 Companies to Work For in the United States?
I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
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