It's not all bad -
1) The Rainbow on Lake Street has a whole bunch of different foods that you
just cannot get in the suburban stores and never will.
2) I am not aware of a good co-op in the burbs for the real specialties like
Arrowroot flour and organic fruits.
3) A great many shows come to Minneapolis & St Paul that never come to the
burbs. Things like the Great American Train Show and the Midwest area
American Stamp Dealers Association will never go to Bloomington. They just
don't have a place with enough parking AND enough floor space.
4) Look at the restaurants mentioned in the previous posts. We have better
restaurants. They have chains and franchises, we have locally owned
restaurants.
I *would* like to see Minneapolis plowed curb to curb like the burbs do.
Rich Chandler - Ward 9
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven C. Anderson
> Speaking of lower standards, does anyone understand why (generally
> speaking) service is so much worse in stores and fast food in Minneapolis
> than in the burbs? It's as though the stores can get away with it here or
> something, whereas that kind of service would lose customers in the
> Suburbs. That may be true, but how did we achieve such low standards in
> the city?
>
> The Office Max I go to at Nicollet and Lake always seems to be
> understaffed and generally under-resourced. Cub and Rainbow at Lake have
> longer lines and are often not as clean as suburban stores. Fast Food
> restaurants are also messier and have slower service.
>
> It doesn't seem to be the workers' faults exactly. Management at these
> places just doesn't seem to care.
>
> I like uniquely urban culture, and I don't mind at all that I have to wait
> for my food at the Hard Times Cafe, because the food is great and the
> place is so wonderful to hang out in. But the same doesn't exactly hold
> true at Taco Bell.
>
-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Peterson
> It is the inner city vision we have of ourselves that accepts a minimum
> level of crime among other things as being o.k. that causes us to be seen
> in such a poor light.
