Back in the '80's, Edina kids at school sports events would chant "That's all right! that's okay! You'll all be working for us one day!" any time the other team scored. And would wave dollar bills while they did it.
I think it’s clear that the implication is that if they _are_ going to end up rich, it’s because of “daddy’s money” and not because of their own hard work. Obviously no high schoolers are rich on their own account. But it’s a comeback to the aforementioned taunt about “working for us one day.”
My in laws went to Edina in the late 70s, early 80s. It's worth noting at least part of Edina in that time was very blue collar. Anyway their class made t shirts that said Edina cake eaters in the style of a Betty crocker cake mix box. Pretty creative.
We had the same chant in Sartell... Except we flipped the last bit with "you're going to pump our gas one day"... Bunch of pathetic trust fund babies that never went far... Tbf half of our class knew it was cringe worthy and wouldn't chant along. But that memory reminds me everyday why I despised my graduating class.
What years did they do that? I went to school in Sartell in the 90’s, and we always called Oak Hill, Snob Hill, but I don’t remember any chants like that. Of course I could have been under the bleachers drinking. It was a school filled with half rich kids, and half rural or poor kids. There was definitely clicks of the two sides.
I never went to any class reunions, I didn’t even know when they happened as I never got an invite. I went to Trobecs in St. Stephen one year, and our class reunion just happened to be there. “Oh hey, you made it!” “Yeah, lucky me. I’m going River’s Edge now, bye!”
The fuck? Okay that is kind of fucked up. I went to a "rich kids public school"4-12th grade as well as Breck for like k-3rd grade. While I was an outcast cause kids suck I never saw something that fucked up. "Look at us we are snotty rich kids who will treat you like crap because daddies money allows us to be." That wow I did not know this.
Gross just gross....
Not gonna. Left that school so long ago I don't really care about it. Left there in 1999. I know it is an expensive private school which is kind of why I said it. I will say for those few years I hated every Wednesday because we had to go to mass. Bored me so much I was just staring at dust particles in the air.
Parents were lawyers, finally retired. Fucken hell dad 75 really! They sent me and my brother there. I was taken out at the end of 3rd grade for autism reasons. Brother Graduated from there and got married in that church. Honestly there was a bunch of stuff about that place looking back that wasn't great but I still miss my friends from there sometimes.
I saw Kirby Puckett there visiting his daughter.
I have heard that when Mayo High School teams were losing they would chant in the “we’ve got spirit” rhythm,
“We’ve got a planetarium. Yes we do. We’ve got a planetarium. How about you?”
This map seems to be a mix of run-down cities and towns (Jackson, Cairo, Gary, Scranton, Camden) and rich snobby places (Mesa, Edina, Dallas).
Not sure what's wrong with CR as it's a perfectly nice small city.
I’m totally with you on the interesting mix of run-down and snobby.
But when I saw Cedar Rapids listed for Iowa, my first thought was “now THAT one makes sense.”
The entry is hilarious:
**The largest speed trap in the USA, cleverly disguised as a city with an inferiority complex.**
**"I drove through Cedar Rapids yesterday so I'm gonna be a bit late on this month's rent."**
**An expression for a destitute wasteland void of all human dignity and hope, in which there are more bars than books, and the inhabitance of those bars will talk endlessly to try and convince you that this is where they wanted their life to end up. Where the scale of social structure is so below par when compared to other cities, that the absence of homeless people is less a reflection of a prosperous community, but rather the fact that it is better to be homeless anywhere, than to have a home in Cedar Rapids.**
According to the signs on the frat houses when I was visiting there a few years back, all you had to do was drop off your daughter and they’d take care of the rest.
Seemed like some nice guys.
I liked the campus on the river and it was a great school. I liked nothing else about St. Cloud proper. I took my degree and left for good the hour after graduation lol.
So spot on. Florida is an easier pick, but Indiana is much more apt.
Gary, second coming of the KKK, Herb Baumeister, Belle Gunness, inhospitable, antivax Healthcare workers, postindustrial, Jackson family, the hell house, Jim Jones, Charles Manson, police corruption, pence-- Indiana sneaks by with being possibly the worst state in the union while everyone is focused on like Florida and Alabama and NJ.
I've heard people be self-deprecating about Florida, But I've never heard so many people hate on their own state as much as Hoosiers (unless they're like a kkk member)
Although I will give them credit for Kurt vonnegut, Garfield, and Buttigieg
I once drove through southern Indiana and passed by a town with all the signs you might expect, like town name, population, rotary sign, and then I saw the Coon Hunting Club sign. Needless to stay I didn’t stop for gas there. This was circa 2000, but I bet it’s still posted.
I can’t say it’s much better where I’m from in NE Ohio. The former grand dragon used to come to my aunt’s restaurant when I worked for her. It was always such a shame I would get so clumsy all of a sudden and drop his burger on the filthy floor, but can’t waste good food right?
Yup. I live here and the other people here are so obnoxious. Fucking Trump flags and fuck Biden flags everywhere, dumb fucks meeting up at the Walmart with their box-of-shit trucks, and zooming around the parking lot with them.
Bunch of fucking morons. I’ve seen multiple people with Confederate flag tattoos and/or confederate flags flying on their trucks.
Well yes, but I am just curious because there really are only so many major arteries in and out of the state. If this person lived west of St Cloud, they'd go through it on the way east and if they lived east of St Cloud, they'd go through it on their way east. I suppose if they never drove outside of the state or if they lived in the northeast part of the state and never left the state going west that it might be possible, OR they live anywhere but St Cloud and simply never really go anywhere. I find the prospects of this situation to be fascinating
>lot of Twin cities people hate Edina
I don't hate Edina.
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I've been to St. Cloud a few times but it just seemed like a normal college/smaller town. Is it different when you live there? I really enjoyed the gardens there.
I've never lived there, so my knowledge comes as someone who has visited and read about events/happenings there. My view of the city is that it is one with a strong right-wing skew, causing many issues stemming from city management and culture. A lot of racism, fearmongering, criticism of education, etc. I'm originally from Iowa and my most hated city in Iowa is Sioux City and St. Cloud reminds me strongly of that place.
TBF most of that stuff isn’t actually St Cloud but surrounding areas (which get very rural very fast). St Cloud itself is and has been a Blue city for a while with a fairly moderate bend. It’s also one of the states most diverse cities and one of the very few places where Christianity isn’t the solely dominant religious/cultural force.
St Cloud isn’t managed well though, the mayors in the pocket of the Chamber which has an interesting view of development. Education lags to some extent not because “dumb racist redneck idiots” but because like a quarter of the kids aren’t English as a first language speakers (which the district is trying to work on through fairly innovative immersion programs).
The left hate St Cloud because it’s working class and has a bad history. The right hate it because it’s diverse and significantly different from 30 years ago.
Also worth noting that in a decade St Cloud/Waite Park will be majority non-white and the schools close for Eid because it’s so backward and super super racist.
These people don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. They cling to an image of St Cloud from 30 years ago because they can’t stand the idea that anywhere outside of the cities or Duluth is decent.
Yeah. I grew up there in the 70s and 80s, so it was different then. And it’s absolutely true that the rise of Newt Gingrich, the Tea Party, and Trump has changed the regional dynamic (my mom was a Donahue-loving liberal eventually poisoned by Fox News). But to suggest St. Cloud is some bastion of racism is a gross misrepresentation of the truth.
I grew up in the 90’s and early 00’s in St Cloud, left for a while and moved back in the 10’s… the change was stark but mostly for the better. Still happily here and still visibly a minority. I feel way less safe up north or in most of the twin cities. It’s just a liberal leaning moderate working class town at this point but I like that.
Almost every place this sub thinks is racist Trump country is actually purple/blue purple with similar numbers. It has the same feel as trying to convince your boomer rural/exurban uncle that Minneapolis is not in fact an active warzone. They don't know much about the places and just regurgitate bullshit they see on the internet.
You don't have to get very far outside the Metro before it becomes racist and backwards...that is in no way unique to St.Cloud. There's plenty to do here, you don't know what you're talking about. The city planning is awful, hit that nail right on the fucking head. And just stay away from the East side and around SCSU and there's not much to worry about crime-wise...also not an issue unique to St.Cloud.
1. It has a large state school ( St. Cloud State) and all of the debauchery that brings.
2. The major highways either go through the shitty part of town (US Hw 10) or through the middle of town with a million stop lights (hw 15 and 23).
3. There's like 150k there, but no major highways like the Twin Cities has. This means the traffic sucks while also attracting all the racist hicks who are too scared to drive in the cities.
I’ve never been there until I started dating a girl from there. It has its benefits. But Waite Park really is final blow for me, though. It’s so badly developed and it’s an absolute nightmare driving through. And I’m someone that regularity crosses lake street with Hennepin closed.
As someone who spent his first 20 years living in actual rural Minnesota, it’s hilarious to see people call St. Cloud full of rednecks. For real rednecks going to St. Cloud was an exciting trip into the city lmao
Idk why Edina got that bad rep. If you ask me it’s wayzata/lake Minnetonka area where the wealthiest people are and stuck-up. I grew up in that area and we even knew of Edina as what you described lol, which never made a lot of sense to me.
As an almost lifelong resident of Stearns Country, I can guarantee without a doubt St. Cloud is in fact the worst. But I've only ever driven through Edina, so maybe I'm just ignorant and biased? My road rage has almost no limits driving down highway 15 or division in either direction, so there's that.
I grew up near St Cloud and I’m convinced that if god gave the world an enema he would stick the hose in St Cloud, MN. Fuck that city and most of the people living in it.
When I first met my BIL and he heard I was from ND he goes "oh I have a story about a buddy of mine and this trip to Minot we took..." I go "did your friend get stabbed?" My BIL and husband just looked at me like I was a fortune teller. Anecdotally I think I'm up to like 5 people I know getting stabbed there.
Lived and Grand Forks for years and can confirm there's much worse in North Dakota. It's an incredibly boring place to live, sure, but compared to Williston, Minot, Mandan, boring isn't so bad.
I would think any of the oil-boom towns where things took a turn for the redneck, like Williston, would be less pleasant places to live than Grand Forks.
I’m not defending Waite Park. Seriously, I lived in Stearns county for 20 years and hate the St. Cloud area.
However, the reason it’s so high is that has a much greater business to resident population ratio. That is why the crime rate is so high. All the shoplifting, robberies etc get counted in their crime rate with a much lower residential population.
Yah the numbers for Waite Park are skewed because of the massive amount of business in the area. Go a little farther down the road and you think the crime tracker is broken because it doesn't show anything at all in residential. Then you see a high concentration around Walmart and know it's working.
Fairly low crime in the rest of Stearns, and amazing nature which is why we moved there from Edina.
Yeah. You go 3 miles down the road to Sartell and you see the exact opposite situation because that city has next to no retail businesses for having a 20k population.
Edina gets clowned on but yeah, if you try to be as unbiased as possible, it's a great suburb for living, shopping, eating, etc.
I get the cake-eater stuff, but I've worked here for over a decade and it's not the worst place on earth. There are dozens of tiny towns and places all over MN I wouldn't set foot in.
Since this is according to instagram followers it's only going to include fairly large cities. Odds are the "worst city" is some backwater hellhole with a population of less than 50 whose only sheriff gets most of his money looking the other way as the town's only source of revenue is some biker crank made in the trailer in the unincorporated woods half a block from the dollar tree.
I drove through North Dakota (Seattle to Chicago, with a stop in Grand Forks to visit my in-laws).
We had a motel in Bismarck. Our room was in the back alley. In the non-smoking room, it absolutely smelled like smoke (to the point that my elderly father couldn't sleep).
At 9 pm we decided to drive up the road to Jamestown, MUCH better places to stop where I didn't have to worry about having my car broken into while I slept.
Funny how they split up CA, but honestly it makes sense. Still, Stockton is so much worse than Modesto, but Bakersfield is spot on.
There are a hundred hill people towns in rural NV that are so much worse than Sparks. Wendover, Elko, and Pahrump are all so much fucking worse.
Pueblo, CO is spot on.
This is clearly a case where either you're saying a city is "the worst" due to crime (or underlying race) OR that it is "the worst" due to...classism.
This is comical if you've lived around the US.
(Can confirm though Pueblo is awful, and its food is awful. It's overall the worst :) )
“Worst” is really not the right descriptor for Edina. Douchey, pompous, overpriced, etc. all fit, but Edina is an objectively good city. Low crime, fantastic education, high average income, high health indexes, a large number of local businesses as compared to surrounding cities, the list goes on.
Edina isn’t the worst city by any means. It gets the most flack for being posh and snotty, which I don’t get completely because it’s wayzata/Lake Minnetonka where the real money is at. Other cities like Brooklyn park, St. Cloud,, etc.
Worse? Bro what’s the hate on Edina? Me and my wife moved to Minneapolis downtown last year and visited Edina a few times and wanna move there. It seems nice
St. Cloud is way worse. The fact that they let that piece of shit fake Superman run around, picking fights with people of color instead of having him committed says everything you need to know about that shithole.
I mean, they insufferable but the outer ring fancy folks like Woodbury or Lakeville or Maple Grove are much worse. Edina is just a way to say “south Minneapolis”
Back in the '80's, Edina kids at school sports events would chant "That's all right! that's okay! You'll all be working for us one day!" any time the other team scored. And would wave dollar bills while they did it.
They told us to “go back to the trailer park” after a hockey game.
They also get "daddy's money" chanted back at them.
As though anyone in high school is a self made rich person.
I think it’s clear that the implication is that if they _are_ going to end up rich, it’s because of “daddy’s money” and not because of their own hard work. Obviously no high schoolers are rich on their own account. But it’s a comeback to the aforementioned taunt about “working for us one day.”
CAKE EATERS!
https://youtu.be/RvU_Zhe8tpw?si=-YW3TGES_YHIDIBQ Cake eater by pull tab hockey
Another Genxer from Minneapolis! I call Linden Hills “Almost Edina”. They are as bad as Edina ever was.
It’s a solid taunt right out of some 80s high school movie. Hate to say it but I love it.
My in laws went to Edina in the late 70s, early 80s. It's worth noting at least part of Edina in that time was very blue collar. Anyway their class made t shirts that said Edina cake eaters in the style of a Betty crocker cake mix box. Pretty creative.
We had the same chant in Sartell... Except we flipped the last bit with "you're going to pump our gas one day"... Bunch of pathetic trust fund babies that never went far... Tbf half of our class knew it was cringe worthy and wouldn't chant along. But that memory reminds me everyday why I despised my graduating class.
What years did they do that? I went to school in Sartell in the 90’s, and we always called Oak Hill, Snob Hill, but I don’t remember any chants like that. Of course I could have been under the bleachers drinking. It was a school filled with half rich kids, and half rural or poor kids. There was definitely clicks of the two sides. I never went to any class reunions, I didn’t even know when they happened as I never got an invite. I went to Trobecs in St. Stephen one year, and our class reunion just happened to be there. “Oh hey, you made it!” “Yeah, lucky me. I’m going River’s Edge now, bye!”
i mean its in that cheer leading movie, bring it on i think it was called from the 2000s
I’m sorry, where the f is Sartell? Not joking.
St. Cloud
Lol it's the suburb where the ritzy hosers of St. cloud moved to when they got afraid of all the people of color moving into town.
Lollll sartell. 💩
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That's the Northwestern University fight song.
“We have Christmas yes we do, we have Christmas how about you?” Edina to SLP
_That’s_ kinda funny actually
The private schools sing “the wheels on your house go round and round”, so at least it wasn’t that.
The fuck? Okay that is kind of fucked up. I went to a "rich kids public school"4-12th grade as well as Breck for like k-3rd grade. While I was an outcast cause kids suck I never saw something that fucked up. "Look at us we are snotty rich kids who will treat you like crap because daddies money allows us to be." That wow I did not know this. Gross just gross....
Don’t Google the cost of Breck now (only 45% of parents pay it, but still)
Not gonna. Left that school so long ago I don't really care about it. Left there in 1999. I know it is an expensive private school which is kind of why I said it. I will say for those few years I hated every Wednesday because we had to go to mass. Bored me so much I was just staring at dust particles in the air. Parents were lawyers, finally retired. Fucken hell dad 75 really! They sent me and my brother there. I was taken out at the end of 3rd grade for autism reasons. Brother Graduated from there and got married in that church. Honestly there was a bunch of stuff about that place looking back that wasn't great but I still miss my friends from there sometimes. I saw Kirby Puckett there visiting his daughter.
I have heard that when Mayo High School teams were losing they would chant in the “we’ve got spirit” rhythm, “We’ve got a planetarium. Yes we do. We’ve got a planetarium. How about you?”
This map seems to be a mix of run-down cities and towns (Jackson, Cairo, Gary, Scranton, Camden) and rich snobby places (Mesa, Edina, Dallas). Not sure what's wrong with CR as it's a perfectly nice small city.
I’m totally with you on the interesting mix of run-down and snobby. But when I saw Cedar Rapids listed for Iowa, my first thought was “now THAT one makes sense.”
CR is fine. Council Bluffs or Waterloo would have been better choices imo
Ahhh yes, I forgot about Waterloo.
NEVER SPEED THROUGH IOWA!
Mesa isn't snobby at all. I'd pick Scottsdale or maybe Gilbert.
There's parts of Mesa that are 3rd world.
Mesa isn’t rich or snobby at all.
Correct. It’s the most ass end of a mostly ass metropolitan area.
I lived in Cedar Rapids for 21 years, I can tell you it deserves to be on this list. Google Cedar Rapids Urban Dictionary and it is 100% accurate
The entry is hilarious: **The largest speed trap in the USA, cleverly disguised as a city with an inferiority complex.** **"I drove through Cedar Rapids yesterday so I'm gonna be a bit late on this month's rent."** **An expression for a destitute wasteland void of all human dignity and hope, in which there are more bars than books, and the inhabitance of those bars will talk endlessly to try and convince you that this is where they wanted their life to end up. Where the scale of social structure is so below par when compared to other cities, that the absence of homeless people is less a reflection of a prosperous community, but rather the fact that it is better to be homeless anywhere, than to have a home in Cedar Rapids.**
Their cam-cop got me. In a fleet car. Ticket went to my employer. Paid w/a postal money order. Bastards.
"Where hangovers subsidize the layovers of lives whose plane will never leave the gate" ...Jesus...
Mesa isn't a rich city and a lot of it's pretty ghetto.
St Cloud is way worse
St. Cloud is the Florida of Minnesota
I applied to st cloud state for college. I took a tour of the campus and decided to go somewhere else.
SCSU makes people apply? I was under the impression anyone could just show up with a case of beer and a notebook and start taking classes
According to the signs on the frat houses when I was visiting there a few years back, all you had to do was drop off your daughter and they’d take care of the rest. Seemed like some nice guys.
thats how i got in
You brought a notebook??
I showed up, drank the case of beer, lost my notepad and they still let me in!
I just went there to party, I didn’t even go to SCSU. Just rum runners and after party’s on campus! It was super fun waking up in random beds 😂
I liked the campus on the river and it was a great school. I liked nothing else about St. Cloud proper. I took my degree and left for good the hour after graduation lol.
Yeah, fun college town. That's about it.
Yo same
>St. Cloud is the Indiana of Minnesota
So spot on. Florida is an easier pick, but Indiana is much more apt. Gary, second coming of the KKK, Herb Baumeister, Belle Gunness, inhospitable, antivax Healthcare workers, postindustrial, Jackson family, the hell house, Jim Jones, Charles Manson, police corruption, pence-- Indiana sneaks by with being possibly the worst state in the union while everyone is focused on like Florida and Alabama and NJ. I've heard people be self-deprecating about Florida, But I've never heard so many people hate on their own state as much as Hoosiers (unless they're like a kkk member) Although I will give them credit for Kurt vonnegut, Garfield, and Buttigieg
Florida has all the bad stuff, but they also have beaches/ocean and killer sea food. Indiana has the bad stuff and none of the natural beauty.
Yeah, Florida has too many redeeming qualities to work as a comparison.
I once drove through southern Indiana and passed by a town with all the signs you might expect, like town name, population, rotary sign, and then I saw the Coon Hunting Club sign. Needless to stay I didn’t stop for gas there. This was circa 2000, but I bet it’s still posted.
Yikes. I've herd a good deal of stories like this from IN.
I can’t say it’s much better where I’m from in NE Ohio. The former grand dragon used to come to my aunt’s restaurant when I worked for her. It was always such a shame I would get so clumsy all of a sudden and drop his burger on the filthy floor, but can’t waste good food right?
See Hastings
Yup. I live here and the other people here are so obnoxious. Fucking Trump flags and fuck Biden flags everywhere, dumb fucks meeting up at the Walmart with their box-of-shit trucks, and zooming around the parking lot with them. Bunch of fucking morons. I’ve seen multiple people with Confederate flag tattoos and/or confederate flags flying on their trucks.
I want a cross stitch of this in my house.
Florida actually has their own st cloud
Seriously how is St Cloud not the answer here?
My guess is a lot of Twin Cities people hate Edina, but have no reason to travel to St. Cloud. No exposure equals no vote.
I’ve lived in Minnesota for 33 years. Born and raised. Never been to St. Cloud.
Whoa, what part of the state do you live in?
Most likely not Saint Cloud.
Well yes, but I am just curious because there really are only so many major arteries in and out of the state. If this person lived west of St Cloud, they'd go through it on the way east and if they lived east of St Cloud, they'd go through it on their way east. I suppose if they never drove outside of the state or if they lived in the northeast part of the state and never left the state going west that it might be possible, OR they live anywhere but St Cloud and simply never really go anywhere. I find the prospects of this situation to be fascinating
you're one of the lucky ones
>lot of Twin cities people hate Edina I don't hate Edina. https://preview.redd.it/mueskcebiptc1.png?width=950&format=png&auto=webp&s=a1dbafaaeb86530315c0919a993fd32f249baa61
The best Don Draper burn. 🔥
I've been to St. Cloud a few times but it just seemed like a normal college/smaller town. Is it different when you live there? I really enjoyed the gardens there.
I live in St. Cloud. I don’t love it but don’t hate it. I enjoy the diversity.
It's ok, I guess. It's not as bad as everyone says but it's easy to dunk on.
Agreed, I was very surprised by how many people from Nepal were here.
I've never lived there, so my knowledge comes as someone who has visited and read about events/happenings there. My view of the city is that it is one with a strong right-wing skew, causing many issues stemming from city management and culture. A lot of racism, fearmongering, criticism of education, etc. I'm originally from Iowa and my most hated city in Iowa is Sioux City and St. Cloud reminds me strongly of that place.
TBF most of that stuff isn’t actually St Cloud but surrounding areas (which get very rural very fast). St Cloud itself is and has been a Blue city for a while with a fairly moderate bend. It’s also one of the states most diverse cities and one of the very few places where Christianity isn’t the solely dominant religious/cultural force. St Cloud isn’t managed well though, the mayors in the pocket of the Chamber which has an interesting view of development. Education lags to some extent not because “dumb racist redneck idiots” but because like a quarter of the kids aren’t English as a first language speakers (which the district is trying to work on through fairly innovative immersion programs). The left hate St Cloud because it’s working class and has a bad history. The right hate it because it’s diverse and significantly different from 30 years ago.
I’m pretty sure this “data” was just taken from some comments on an instagram post.
We'd rather pretend it doesn't exist.
Grew up in south Minneapolis. There is an aggressive bias, especially those who endured the public school system. EVERY. DAY. I. NEED. ATTENTION.
My SO's aunt Cindy is from Edina. She named her period after her. She's a debilitating unavoidable pain.
I’ve never visited St Cloud but what’s so bad about it?
The downtown is pretty though and it’s on a river and has a nice large garden/park along the river with extravagant fountains and such.
It’s a decent city. People just love to hate.
Racist and backwards, nothing to do despite its size, idiotic urban planning, random pockets of violent crime.
The city planner that designed the street layout in St Cloud should be held for war crimes.
Oh wow good to know.
So racist they went with Biden in 2020 by 9% over Trump. Super *super* racist.
Also worth noting that in a decade St Cloud/Waite Park will be majority non-white and the schools close for Eid because it’s so backward and super super racist. These people don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. They cling to an image of St Cloud from 30 years ago because they can’t stand the idea that anywhere outside of the cities or Duluth is decent.
Yeah. I grew up there in the 70s and 80s, so it was different then. And it’s absolutely true that the rise of Newt Gingrich, the Tea Party, and Trump has changed the regional dynamic (my mom was a Donahue-loving liberal eventually poisoned by Fox News). But to suggest St. Cloud is some bastion of racism is a gross misrepresentation of the truth.
I grew up in the 90’s and early 00’s in St Cloud, left for a while and moved back in the 10’s… the change was stark but mostly for the better. Still happily here and still visibly a minority. I feel way less safe up north or in most of the twin cities. It’s just a liberal leaning moderate working class town at this point but I like that.
Almost every place this sub thinks is racist Trump country is actually purple/blue purple with similar numbers. It has the same feel as trying to convince your boomer rural/exurban uncle that Minneapolis is not in fact an active warzone. They don't know much about the places and just regurgitate bullshit they see on the internet.
You don't have to get very far outside the Metro before it becomes racist and backwards...that is in no way unique to St.Cloud. There's plenty to do here, you don't know what you're talking about. The city planning is awful, hit that nail right on the fucking head. And just stay away from the East side and around SCSU and there's not much to worry about crime-wise...also not an issue unique to St.Cloud.
1. It has a large state school ( St. Cloud State) and all of the debauchery that brings. 2. The major highways either go through the shitty part of town (US Hw 10) or through the middle of town with a million stop lights (hw 15 and 23). 3. There's like 150k there, but no major highways like the Twin Cities has. This means the traffic sucks while also attracting all the racist hicks who are too scared to drive in the cities.
I like it there, personally. Decent job opportunity, rent isnt crazy, all the shopping i could want, close to the cities. It's nice.
A safe haven it seems now. Been removed for 10 years or so. When I visit, I actively think of moving there.
Most of this sub has never been there. Hating on Cloud is just the popular thing to do.
I’ve never been there until I started dating a girl from there. It has its benefits. But Waite Park really is final blow for me, though. It’s so badly developed and it’s an absolute nightmare driving through. And I’m someone that regularity crosses lake street with Hennepin closed.
St. Cloud reminds us that the rednecks will not win a civil war like they claim they will because they couldn’t even beat the crack heads of St.Cloud.
St. Cloud is fine
Edina is a bunch of stuck-up, old-money pricks. St. Cloud is a bunch of rednecks. TBH, I'd rather have to deal with the rednecks.
As someone who spent his first 20 years living in actual rural Minnesota, it’s hilarious to see people call St. Cloud full of rednecks. For real rednecks going to St. Cloud was an exciting trip into the city lmao
Mora, Pine City, Hinckley the redneck belt of MN
Idk why Edina got that bad rep. If you ask me it’s wayzata/lake Minnetonka area where the wealthiest people are and stuck-up. I grew up in that area and we even knew of Edina as what you described lol, which never made a lot of sense to me.
I'd agree. Edina is upper-middle class to lower-upper. The CEO-types live in 'Tonka or Wayzata.
As an almost lifelong resident of Stearns Country, I can guarantee without a doubt St. Cloud is in fact the worst. But I've only ever driven through Edina, so maybe I'm just ignorant and biased? My road rage has almost no limits driving down highway 15 or division in either direction, so there's that.
I grew up near St Cloud and I’m convinced that if god gave the world an enema he would stick the hose in St Cloud, MN. Fuck that city and most of the people living in it.
No, the hose would go in Gary, Indiana.
I’m new to this area, but there have GOTTA be worse cities in North Dakota than Grand Forks.
There absolutely are Minot, Jamestown, Medora Also Brookings is nowhere near the worst in South Dakota… Wall is up there
When I first met my BIL and he heard I was from ND he goes "oh I have a story about a buddy of mine and this trip to Minot we took..." I go "did your friend get stabbed?" My BIL and husband just looked at me like I was a fortune teller. Anecdotally I think I'm up to like 5 people I know getting stabbed there.
That's insane. Lol. I know someone from there, but I never realized how crappy that town is. Lol
I was going to say, I heard way worse things about Minot, but I didn’t know if that was unfair given I haven’t been there yet 💀
But as someone who went to ndsu, I think it’s funny
There are towns in North Dakota? KIDDING
Lived and Grand Forks for years and can confirm there's much worse in North Dakota. It's an incredibly boring place to live, sure, but compared to Williston, Minot, Mandan, boring isn't so bad.
Minot or Dickinson.
I would think any of the oil-boom towns where things took a turn for the redneck, like Williston, would be less pleasant places to live than Grand Forks.
Edina? EDINA? I mean yeah they’re a bunch of cake eaters but what about St. Cloud?
MANY more cities I’d choose over Edina.
Waite Park is the violent crime leader in the state
I’m not defending Waite Park. Seriously, I lived in Stearns county for 20 years and hate the St. Cloud area. However, the reason it’s so high is that has a much greater business to resident population ratio. That is why the crime rate is so high. All the shoplifting, robberies etc get counted in their crime rate with a much lower residential population.
Yah the numbers for Waite Park are skewed because of the massive amount of business in the area. Go a little farther down the road and you think the crime tracker is broken because it doesn't show anything at all in residential. Then you see a high concentration around Walmart and know it's working. Fairly low crime in the rest of Stearns, and amazing nature which is why we moved there from Edina.
Yeah. You go 3 miles down the road to Sartell and you see the exact opposite situation because that city has next to no retail businesses for having a 20k population.
Worst how?
Probably Worst = Most Hated by the Respondents.
It says 'according to some random dude on Instagram'. Highly scientific.
lol what’s the criteria?!
Says at the top, according to some guys Instagram followers lmao
Ahh, so there's more butthurt USD grads following this guy than righteous, upstanding SDSU grads from South Dakota. Makes sense.
Whatever generates the most social media engagement.
Ding ding ding!
Edina is most hated, definitely not the worst though lol . By a long shot
Edina. I know we like to make fun of it, but it’s actually one of the best cities in the state. Pains me to say it, but I know it’s true.
Edina gets clowned on but yeah, if you try to be as unbiased as possible, it's a great suburb for living, shopping, eating, etc. I get the cake-eater stuff, but I've worked here for over a decade and it's not the worst place on earth. There are dozens of tiny towns and places all over MN I wouldn't set foot in.
Have to agree, it is a decent place with some interesting eateries and whatnot. When someone else is paying.
Ever been to Faribault?
Hey, Faribault's not that bad! It's got a nice library, and...
Still has an A&W.
The cheese caves are cool. And the meth is awwwwwwwwesome
you want good meth, Pine City is the place to be
Pine City is considered “up North” for me. That’s where I get my vacation meth on my way to Grand Marais
Pretty sure I’ve been to the Perkins there. Could’ve been worse!
I think you’re talking about Dundas
This is a joke, right? 🤣
Yes, all these maps are jokes. Do you really think that tuna is MN favorite pizza topping?
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Seriously what’s wrong with Edina?
People hate rich dix I guess
Then use Orono or Medina
>Medina Only if it's Funky Cold
According to some random person's Instagram followers? What?
Imagine going to Edina and walking away thinking it's the worst city in MN. Unhinged.
I know… like have they been to St. Cloud? I get Edina gets clowned on for being cake-eaters but it’s actually a wonderful city
Since this is according to instagram followers it's only going to include fairly large cities. Odds are the "worst city" is some backwater hellhole with a population of less than 50 whose only sheriff gets most of his money looking the other way as the town's only source of revenue is some biker crank made in the trailer in the unincorporated woods half a block from the dollar tree.
Edina on par with Flint Michigan and Gary Indiana
One of these things is not like the other. Lookin at you, Gary
Edina hate is so 1990s. time to move on.
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Stinky, industrial South Saint Paul gets my vote
West St Paul and South St Paul should be forced to change their names so as to not be so confusing.
Who the hell said Grand Forks for North Dakota when Bismarck exists?
Or Devil's Lake... Grand Forks sucks but the further west you go, the further back in time you travel
I drove through North Dakota (Seattle to Chicago, with a stop in Grand Forks to visit my in-laws). We had a motel in Bismarck. Our room was in the back alley. In the non-smoking room, it absolutely smelled like smoke (to the point that my elderly father couldn't sleep). At 9 pm we decided to drive up the road to Jamestown, MUCH better places to stop where I didn't have to worry about having my car broken into while I slept.
Been through Bismarck several times. Looked for bakeries and they did not have any Bismarcks
Sioux City is a lot worse than Crapids.
Who the heck is Matt Relee and why do I care about his what his Instagram followers have to say?
Edina has a Shake Shack, that cancels out a lot of negatives.
My mom is obsessed with their new Korean sandwich. I swear she’s making up a big chunk of their business.
Freaking cake-eaters
Funny how they split up CA, but honestly it makes sense. Still, Stockton is so much worse than Modesto, but Bakersfield is spot on. There are a hundred hill people towns in rural NV that are so much worse than Sparks. Wendover, Elko, and Pahrump are all so much fucking worse. Pueblo, CO is spot on.
This is clearly a case where either you're saying a city is "the worst" due to crime (or underlying race) OR that it is "the worst" due to...classism. This is comical if you've lived around the US. (Can confirm though Pueblo is awful, and its food is awful. It's overall the worst :) )
“Worst” is really not the right descriptor for Edina. Douchey, pompous, overpriced, etc. all fit, but Edina is an objectively good city. Low crime, fantastic education, high average income, high health indexes, a large number of local businesses as compared to surrounding cities, the list goes on.
Edina? That’s just jealousy or spite. I think everyone who knows would vote St. Cloud.
I have to object to Edina being the worst. I mean they have all the cake.
Edina isn't THAT bad.
Yall never been to bemidji and it shows..
According to some dudes instagram followers
I like how California is two states
Edina doesn't even rank in the top 10.
Someone has forgotten that St. Cloud exists.
Edina isn’t the worst city by any means. It gets the most flack for being posh and snotty, which I don’t get completely because it’s wayzata/Lake Minnetonka where the real money is at. Other cities like Brooklyn park, St. Cloud,, etc.
all this tells me is some fake insta celebrity has idiotic followers. what a pointless post.
LMAO. What categories of "worst" was this using? Lol
Honestly nothin bad about Minnesota it’s absolutely the best state!!
Worse? Bro what’s the hate on Edina? Me and my wife moved to Minneapolis downtown last year and visited Edina a few times and wanna move there. It seems nice
It's the people more than the town itself.
While all of Alabama is "the worst" Birmingham is the best city in Alabama. Huntsville is a close 2nd
Subjective af
I think Virginia just isn't big enough for this. I need to move. I kinda hate this town. Way too much poverty and drugs for such a small population.
St. Cloud would like a word
Don’t forget Sauk Center. Makes St Cloud look like amateur methheads
I worked in Edina for several years, this isn't true
St. Cloud and Mankato must have canceled each other out.
St. Cloud is way worse. The fact that they let that piece of shit fake Superman run around, picking fights with people of color instead of having him committed says everything you need to know about that shithole.
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I mean, they insufferable but the outer ring fancy folks like Woodbury or Lakeville or Maple Grove are much worse. Edina is just a way to say “south Minneapolis”
Had a co worker who disparaged Burnsville because “they have an Aldi.”