Any good places to live near the Twin Cities

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3. Depends on what kind of house, neighborhood and amenities you're looking for.

The 'burbs tend to be very white and very Republican. If you don't want to live in a cookie-cutter McMansion-infested suburb like Woodbury, Stillwater, across the river from Wisconsin, is nice. Chaska is a pleasant outer-ring suburb southwest of Minneapolis. Check out the cities themselves: there are some really nice, older neighborhoods with mature trees and cool old architecture. In Minneapolis look at the Tangletown, Lowry Hill, Fulton, Linden Hills and Bryn Mawr neighborhoods; in St. Paul check out Macalester-Groveland, Highland and St. Anthony neighborhoods.