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Originally Posted by billege
If the town just really feels that Coon Rapids is too hickish, then that's also a bare display of thier insecurity.
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If you'd ever been there you'd know what they're talking about...It's just hard to explain to people who aren't from here...but the northern suburbs of the twin cities have had a really hard time. on one side of Coon Rapids is the 694, the northernmost part of the loop that goes around the cities. on the other is cow pasture. and depending on how the infrastructure goes in...they get sucked into the rest of the Metro, and they've got a good town. But if they failed to raise land values when the housing went in...and they get filled up by a bunch of mediocre townhouses, be an exurb bedroom community and lose any hope of having a tax base for the next 50 years.
Development is cutthroat...and marketing yourself to potenital residents and business is a huge deal. As native...i hear Coon Rapids, and my first thought is that it's way the hell out there. Matter of fact...my old house is equidistant to the city center as they are. But the south has the highways and the transit and the tax base.