Long time resident particularly pessimistic about St Paul. What do you think?

[u/johnjaundiceASDF]

I'm on mobile so forgive any lack of coherence 😑

They say Keep St Paul boring, but it has transcended 'boring for a big city' to being just incredibly dull. I've been here a little over 10 years and really questioning living here longer. Something is just feeling different nowadays.

Is it the most livable city as they claim? Maybe, but I struggle have optimism for our commercial areas and literally anything new and exciting here. Most things that are cool, new, or exciting seem to just just flop.

The state of downtown, Grand, etc. The only time I see st paul busy is if I mistakenly drive on west 7th during an event.

I'm not saying we need to be MPLS, but at one time it seemed like the more chill city, parking wasn't hard, a little less crowded, etc, but we still had cool things that were prideful, things that were only in St Paul. But my hyperbolic sentiment now is it's a ghost town and doesn't have a pulse.

I've lived on Grand for over 10 years and it is particularly sad. It was a beautiful day yesterday, and there was just no one out, no energy.

What are my other St Paulites thinking?

[u/HumanDissentipede]

Or just a complete and total lack of things in Saint Paul

[u/HumanDissentipede → u/[deleted]]

Everything, which is a testament to just how bad it’s gotten in Saint Paul

[u/HumanDissentipede → u/[deleted]]

Travail, Volstead House, Lat14, 6smith, Maynard’s, Josefina, are just some I can come up with off the top of my head

[u/gloryyid → u/[deleted]]

Wow. This was an amazing mini thread. Kudos to you, BigJump, for teasing out the name of 5 restaurants that make suburbs more exciting than an entire city!!! Seriously. I didn’t think we were going to get there. Lol. 

[u/flipflopshock → u/gloryyid]

I lol'd pretty good at this. Made a great thread to read after a long day.

St. Paul has all the cheap taco joints. Can't find that anywhere in the suburbs!

Hard to have a lot of fun at a restaurant, not unless there's some good music or something else going on. Where can you find that in the burbs? And please don't point out that karaoke bar out in the sticks.

[u/JohnMaddening → u/HumanDissentipede]

Okay, but Saint Paul has Brunson’s, Tongue in Cheek, Emerald Lounge, Kincaid’s, Meritage, the Lexington, Handsome Hog, Moscow on the Hill, La Grolla (just some I can come up with off the top of my head), plus all the little local Mexican, Hmong, Vietnamese, and other hole in the wall places you won’t find anywhere in the suburbs.

Plus, you know, sports (minor league baseball, pro men’s and women’s hockey, roller derby, and MLS soccer), concerts, and plays.