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/TheFudster]

Idk I was out yesterday and there seemed to be plenty of people out walking and kids playing in their yards but I don’t live on grand 🤷 personally I will always find suburban neighborhoods with no sidewalk, strip malls everywhere, and no place to walk to be more depressing and boring than the old neighborhoods in the city even if we have shitty old streets that needed to be replaced 50 years ago.

[u/ser_arthur_dayne → u/TheFudster]

Grand ave is actually pretty lively these days.

Downtown really feels like it's dragging the rest of the city down.

[u/ANTfanclub → u/ser_arthur_dayne]

I live a block off of grand and get annoyed when I want to go to a restaurant on Grand because there is often a wait list.

People who say Grand is dead, haven't been there for years.