My wife works in St.Paul so every afternoon she takes the Somali Trolley from there to downtown Minneapolistan where she takes a bus out to the American part of Minnesota.
She says it is horrible every day.
Now they are extending it to Eden Prairie so they can get out here and rob us easier.
She is done in a few years and then we too are moving out.
I grew up in a small Minnesota town across the Red River from Fargo ND. Left for life about 50 years ago, haven’t been back since my mom passed in 2012. Even my hometown is going somali on a small scale. About the only crimes reported are committed by folks that have somali or Muslim names (apart from a few native Norwegians stealing lefse from the local markets). It is because non-Somali folks move away to get away that the somalis can move in and take over. I despise my saying that but unfortunately it is true.
My mom would take the trolley (alone)into downtown Minneapolis for violin lessons after school. About 4 miles iirc. Then she would walk 10 blocks to her dad’s shop and wait for him to close up and ride home with him - dark in the winter time. She started doing this when she was 8 or so.
Of course it was 1924.
Ten years ago we visited and she showed us her old haunts. We even went to the White Castle on Hennepin Ave that has been there forever. “Boy - this area sure has changed a lot since I was a kid.”
The funny thing is when they went to Portland to research building the Somali Trolley, they failed to talk with residence who use it.
Just like MN, it is how gangs and drugs are transported everywhere in the city as there is nothing to “confiscate” if caught.
The people of Portland would have told them this if anyone bothered to listen.