Does Your Twin Cities Suburb Suck? An Investigation.

We love suburbs! Without them all those people would be taking up space in our beautiful urban stomping grounds. That said, there's a reason we don't live in them, mainly because we suspect that they all kinda suck. Here's why:

If, in theory, you were gifted a house on the lake for free and still couldn't afford to live in it for a year based solely on the property taxes, your suburb sucks.
 

Double edged sword son… because really, what's the point?

Really good at: casinos and amusement parks. Really bad at: being close to anything else worthwhile.
 

At least with Lake Minnetonka property taxes you're getting a lake with actual water in it.

They say Reno, NV is so close to hell you can see Sparks, NV… same thing for Woodbury, MN, if only the state of Wisconsin had some sort of hellfire connotation.

So close to hell you can see Wisconsin AND Jessica Lange's house… AND your school mascot is a silly pony.

When all you can see is Woodbury and East St. Paul, maybe you might actually be in hell.
 

Seann William Scott may be one of the more embarrassing Minnesota-born celebs, so what does it say about his hometown that he got the 'eff outta dodge the moment he got his diploma?

What evil must lurk beneath a suburb that drove Brenda and Brandon Walsh away to Beverly Hills only to pronounce the name of said suburb wrong?
 

Wayzata school district is only ingloriously surrounded by 394, 494, 94, and 169 instead of actual nice things like lakes and country clubs.
 

One of the fastest growing Twin Cities suburbs, most likely only because not everyone who wanted to live close to Wayzata could fit in Plymouth.

We would have different feelings about Burnsville had Lindsey Vonn stayed.
 

The only explanation for the growth of EP is that everyone who came from outside the area to eat at the Bilimbi Bay back in the day got lost driving through that ungodly serpentine series of cloverleafs and roundabouts, couldn't figure out how to get out, and eventually said "screw it" and bought a three bedroom, two bathroom walkout.

Nobody even knows where you are and YOU'RE LITERALLY RIGHT THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THE OTHER SUBURBS.
 

Legend tells of the glorious "Bloomington strip," which as near as we can tell must just be a reference to one of the runways at MSP International Airport.

When the primary thing you're known for is your mildly nice mall that shares your name, it doesn't bode well.
 

It's not even nice to make fun of Anoka for being so far away from actual civilization, rather it's time we send out a search party to make sure they're all still alive up there.
 

We're not even going to sugar coat this, everyone who isn't from Edina thinks Edina sucks.

*contains no actual gold and, really, no actual valley

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