I train with Minneapolis cops and most of them have already. Well, most of the “good ones”. Moved to another suburb, private security, or a different job entirely. They’re going to have to raise the pay for cops to get anyone to work in Minneapolis, which is oh so ironic.
There are plenty of us still in the cities but TBH let them burn down my house. I’ll collect my insurance money and move the fuck away. I was born and raised in Minneapolis and it’s a gorgeous green city. But only if you don’t look at the people inhabiting it.
I guess, but most of the "wealthy" neighborhoods are still technically in Minneapolis. Just on the other side of 35W from where the riots were before.
And who knows, maybe they'll burn down a mall or something. But that's so far away from actual HOMES in the burbs.
I live in the burbs and I disagree. The effort/reward ratio sucks out here, and each house is on 1/2-1 acre of land. They wont bother except for a few isolated incidents. You loot a target, you get multiple new TV's. You loot someone's house and you get maybe 1-2 used ones but you risk getting shot.
Like maybe they'll raid the Edina Target, but the actual residential houses or small businesses wont burn. Which, fuck Target, let it burn.
My family owns a small business in a suburb. Honestly with COVID they’d love it if it just burned down and they could just take the insurance money and not have to try and sell. I’m doubtful it’ll spread that far though.
My parents left Russia in the 1970's! It didn't even last one generation, and we're contemplating if going back is going to be necessary.
My grandma is 89 years old and scoffs at the virus. Says she's lived through this 100 times before. But that's Soviet Union/WW2 upbringing for you.
My husband is Canadian and we haven’t seen his family in a year, despite living by the border. With this, I’m not sure we’ll see them for years. They missed our “wedding”, and they’ll also miss the birth of his 1st child. But I’m sure as hell not going to Canada right now as a US citizen. I’m Jewish, the red flags are EVERYWHERE.
Counties, not cities. So basically everything within 45 mins of Minneapolis in every direction.