We all have problems. Minnesota is NOT the solution.
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Looks like I'll be moving back to SF after my two-month stint in
Minneapolis. I know everyone in California wants to move to
Minnesota, but let me tell you, the fantastic rumors about MN should
be taken with a grain of salt. To prevent others from repeating my
mistake, I thought I'd make the following points clear:
1. The standard work week in MN is 40 hours, which is at least TWICE
the rumored 12 hours.
2. You do NOT get to live in a beachside cabana, drink Coronas all
day and watch nude volleyball.
3. Minnesota is not an independent libertarian republic located on an
idyllic palm-shrouded island in the Carribean. It is in the Midwest.
(The last point bears repeating. Please reread it.)
4. Minnesota is not an Opposite Land where rain falls up, beautiful
members of the opposite sex try to get YOU in the sack, and only a
lifetime of laziness and ineptitude will earn you respect and power.
Rather, it is unnervingly realistic.
5. Gas mileage does not improve. Well, not dramatically.
If by publishing this I helped deter just ONE starstruck Californian
from following in my naive footsteps, it wouldn't have been worth
writing it at all. But if it was more like five or six, I guess that
would be alright.