Get My Friends To Move To Minnesota

Something that keeps many of us in our current city/state is the job that we have. Some of us moved from our hometown to take that one job after college. Some of us have stayed at home, most of the time in our parents basement, for our whole lives and stay there for that job. Some of us have moved to an area first and found a job later. After looking at these statistics , no matter what your reason for moving was, I think Minnesota is the place for all of you. In case you are bad with numbers and don't understand what percentages are (they are usually out of 100%, but sometimes people get that wrong too) I created (colored) a map of the united states. Green State = Minnesota -or- The place you should be Red States = Some of the unemployed states you live in Yellow States = Places that have a lower unemployment rate than Minnesota Numbers = The ranking of some states. The lower the number, the lower the unemployment rate. You will probably notice there are 12 states ahead of Minne...

Do you like to drink alcohol? Do you like bars/pubs? Do you like Zombies? Even if you answer no to all of these questions, I am fairly certain you can like or appreciate the Zombie Pub Crawl . According to friend testimonies and Wikipedia the Zombie Pub Crawl started in Minneapolis (that is one of the cities in Minnesota if you are just joining us) in 2005. The Crawl has become a well established and well attended event since it started. Before we analyze this spectacular event let me give you the story of my first run in with the Zombie Pub Crawlers. The year is 2008 and I was playing at the Bedlam (another great post on its own, with great stories). I was somewhat confused that people were at our show dressed up like zombies, but I thought, "oh well, we are a hardcore punk band, there is a huge crust city the Bedlam's mission is "is to produce radical works of theater with a focus on collaboration and a unique blend of professional and community art." Zombies han...

Since the Winter Olympics are starting very soon, I felt like explaining something cool about the winter and Minnesota. Scattered throughout the Twin Cities metro are Ice Skating/Hockey(with boards)/Broomball rinks, outside, in many parks. The best part of this is they are free (and maintained) for people to use. In your city, you may have ice rinks or ice arenas inside large buildings (eyesores) for you to escape your boring, non-winter reality; these are places you have to pay to enter. Well not in Minnesota. We believe that ice skating is a natural human right, or something like that. I understand you can argue that we pay taxes to keep these ice rinks around. I cannot deny that, but here is why it is better than paying your 5-10 dollar admission to skate in your arenas. 1. We pay taxes for the awesome parks (which we have in abundance and I can post on that later) already, so the land is already there. You could say we are making sure we use the park year round, by flooding it with...

All the cities that we live in have a history associated with them and some people have said that our history defines us. If this is true, and it is going to be true for my argument today, then we should take a long look into where we live and see if your city has something this great in its past. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (or MST3K for the cool kids) is a show that ran from 1988 to 1999 and taught us all how to love life and to laugh once again. Every episode we visited our friends Joel, Mike, Crow, Tom Servo, Gypsy, Cambot, The Forrester's, Brain Guy, Bobo, the beloved TV's Frank, Trumpy, and so many more. These friends taught us one of the most important life lessons of all; it is good to laugh, not only to laugh, but laugh at the world around us. If you were sitting in a boring high school/college class, what better way to get through the class then to crack jokes (either silent or out loud if you had the courage). Was work incredibly boring, annoying, or tiring? How abo...

I decided to start a blog, attempting to convince my friends to move to Minnesota. All of you from Detroit/Flint/Indianapolis/Nashville/elsewhere, you know who you are and why you apparently hate me because you don't live near me. I understand that most, probably all, of you will stay where you are or move to another non-Minnesota location someday. Because of this, my blog will hopefully serve one of two purposes: 1. Convince you to move to Minnesota. This is a small and hopeless possibility, but it won't stop me from trying. 2. Make everybody who doesn't move here feel very guilty for neglecting me and all that is Minnesota. When the topic is brought up, every one of you gives a single excuse for not moving here. "It is cold!" Think of this blog as a pros/cons list of reasons to move to Minnesota. So far you only have one con, the weather. I understand people don't want to live in below 0 (Kelvin) temperatures, but hopefully you will be won over by the pros t...