If you’ve lived in the Twin Cities metro your entire life, or most of it anyway, you’ve been 20 minutes from a Target, 15 minutes from a Starbucks, and probably 5 minutes away from the closest gas station. You have also had reliable snow removal from your street in the winter, the option to use public transportation, and your choice of hospitals and clinics when needed. But with all that convenience comes more noise, more pollution, more crowds, more traffic, and more money. Yes, more money. That’s because it costs more to live in the city thanks to much higher property taxes to cover all the additional roads and services. It also costs more on your mental and physical health.
