MINNESOTA: Forgotten Small Towns Far Off The Interstate 

My favorites to video as well.

They still have that parade! On July 4th.

These small towns were built on the backs of solid Northern European stock.

Live on patrol is super great! I also watch as much as I can 😊

That's not what zillow said. They called it a single family home.

$2,400 annual property taxes for $230,000 actual value. That's good for the mid America.

I was thinking, Harold’s bar is the best thing in blooming prairie! 😉✌️

Worked at mcneilus for a short time when I lived in Kasson

Thank you, Peggy!

mine too...don't care much about the big cities, but I love these small towns

Mine as well. :)

I agree

I think she does the books and Joey does the videos. It is a team effort

Thank you, Edward!

Correction, the Great Northern Railroad.

MN is - central and northern MN is swedish/norway heritage. Oh boy they bicker with each other - haha. St. Paul, the capital city of MN, is german and english heritage. There is french influence as well, more so in WI, the nieghboring state. Alot of UK and Irish heritage in St.Paul, MN. (St. Patricks day is huuuge in St. Paul). There is alot of towns (New London, New Prague, La Salle, La Suer, Stockholm, Kingston, with European heritage, etc.) Farther north you get you run into swedish/norway towns, (Lindstrom, etc.) It's a nice state that mimics norway I think. Come and visit - bring your fishing pole and shotgun, we have alot of lakes and woods.

MN is - central and northern MN is swedish/norway heritage. Oh boy they bicker with each other - haha. St. Paul, the capital city of MN, is german and english heritage. There is french influence as well, more so in WI, the nieghboring state. Alot of UK and Irish heritage in St.Paul, MN. (St. Patricks day is huuuge in St. Paul). There is alot of towns (New London, New Prague, La Salle, La Suer, Stockholm, Kingston, with European heritage, etc.) Farther north you get you run into swedish/norway towns, (Lindstrom, etc.) It's a nice state that mimics norway I think. Come and visit - bring your fishing pole and shotgun, we have alot of lakes and woods.

@@hawks2252 Thank you. I assumed the populace would be mostly northern European ancestry. I'll re-watch the video and see again what interests me. I'm not an outdoors fan and don't like winter, so that restricts me a bit for vacation. I'm sure I would love the food.

@@glennbourque111 it's interesting how the U.S. was settled and it's still a young country. Mind blowing what has happened since say 1860. Isn't that long ago. I think (I don't really know) northern Europeans felt at home in MN so they stayed. similar climate? Similar trees and forest to germany/sweden/norway, etc. to build houses as they were given land to come here and farther west as well (Montana, Dakota's, Utah, Wyoming, etc) I think in the Lousiana purchase from the French - not sure. But they put ads in the newspapers in Ireland - potato famine times, england, sweden, norway, germany, etc. that there is free land if you come as U.S. needed people after the civil war as many U.S died in the civil war, and government wanted to expand west. The only thing they didn't tell the people coming on boats was there was already people there that were beating up the U.S military when they tried and didn't want them, but the government didn't tell them that. They set em up some supplies and sent the new comers on their way out west without the new comers knowing they are going to have to battle the current land owners( the tribes - and tribes didn't like it) . (Lakota, Commanche, Sioux, Arapaho, other tribes that had better militaries if you will than the U.S. government at the time that were getting beat by the tribes, so they sent the new comers in to do their dirty work. so the new comers thought they were getting free land to just walk into, but the locals (tribes) didn't see it that way. so the new comers (alot of them died) hence the U.S western cowboy and Indian films. Then the industrail revolution and trains and that era began. I guess I felt like writing - haha. the food is rather bland to be honest. thier are awesome resturants, but you can only do swedish meatballs and fish fry so many ways - haha. Overall - it's country history full of brutality - just like any other.

Thank you!!

After a while winter isn't so bad, you eventually become Lieutenant Dan tied to the mast, makes a big difference to be in the southern part of the state to.

My introduction to Minneopolis Minnesota was in the deep cold snowy winter, minus 40degrees. The only autos on the street were battery boosting/tow trucks lol. No one was going anywhere that day. I agree with you though, Minnesota is a beautiful State.

Thank you.

Keeps the weaklings away

​@@davesbainrps6909 😂😂😂 good point

You really should visit before it is gone you will enjoy it for sure 😃.

@HunkumSpunkum, By all means, come for a visit ! But you know not to go to NYC, L.A., Houston, etcetera thinking you've seen the U.S. Like an American going to London, seeing all the immigrants while sightseeing, then coming home thing we've seen England. Au contraire, mon ami. Stay far away from the big cities, off the interstates, on rural roads and thru the countryside. Mind you, the NorthEast is vastly different than the mid Atlantic States in food / accent / culture, which is different than the Deep South, midWest, SouthWest, California and the NorthWest ( haven't even touched on U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, etcetera ). As always, take twice as much money, plan twice as much time, bring half as much clothes. Enjoy ! ☆

Cars have been rust proofed for decades. Had my first car a Honda for 20 years and my second a Subaru for 17 years now with no rust on either. But I remember rusty cars from my childhood.

Sad to see 75k 4 yrs old trucks and SUVs rusting but it's very common here

Yes, people here have no idea how good they have it, way too easy to complain.

Obrigado!

I’ve wondered what Nicole does while your out showing us the small town life.

@@RandomDudeOne Indeed. :(

@@EricT3769 De nada! :D

Thank you!

Definitely not Brooklyn Park lol.

Yep, it is a spot that wasn't ground down by the glaciers of the last ice age.

I like that!

Thanks, Rajeev!

The best lefse

I agree!! Rushford is one of those great small towns that have good people and amazing lefse for sure.

Low crime and the metro don’t go hand in hand. It used to, but it ain’t the 1960’s anymore, that’s for sure.

Don't believe commentator said St Paul was low crime. Said blooming prairie was low crime. St Paul definitely is not low crime.

Thanks, will do!

Thanks!

How's the agri-chem pollution btw. Some of the pretty farm retirement towns are cancer riddled. I was in one up in Oregon till I found out the sad reality, took my family out of there right after a agri-chemical spill forced us to evacuate one day. Wheat country...planes spraying. Good videos though.👍

I didn't hear any singing. It's a beautiful church, though.

It really is!

Awesome, thanks!!

Thank you!

Weather-related low crime rates? The other reasons are demographics and the size of the town. In the latter, everybody usually knows everyone else. So-called tight-knit communities. Plus the few cops know all the ruffians and ne'er-do wellers.

It's a really nice town. :)

Awesome, thank you!!

every motocrosser in the region and probably country knows millville. Used to love racing that track back in the day. Do the race events irratate you guys that get to live in that beutifull part of the world?

Awesome, thanks!

Thank you!!!

The best!

Also my hometown. We are at about 14,000 now.