COMMENT BY
JL from Duluth, MN
COMMENT ABOUT PLACE
Duluth, MN
COMMENT
Duluth City
I have mixed emotions about Duluth as I spent half my life there and in Buffalo NY. My memories of Duluth have been of friendly people (on the surface) but being very, very lonely and wishing for something more. It's a terrible place to be single and/or childless because virtually everyone is married or has kids. If you don't, you're not going to find many people who have things in common with you. You won't find many single adults there either - so if you arrive single, you're going to leave single.
For basic things like finding a gym, getting around the city, restaurants, etc its very well-established. I never had problems with anything like that. The jobs are a different story. I, as many others I knew, worked way below my educational level. Despite being a college graduate I could only find a job that paid close to minimum - however, having lived with family and being able to walk to work, I had no car payment/insurance, very little rent, had no kids/significant other - so all those things allowed me to basically take my entire pay check and deposit it.
I got a little tired of the lowlife that seems to be coming to Duluth from larger metro areas...these people are coming here with their gang affiliations and selling drugs, finding local girls to live off of and do their dirty work, and then bring all their kids here with them. None of these people work or do anything except tax the social services that are extremely generous to those who have never worked one day in their lives, giving them great services as well as housing in high rises such as Tri Towers that has a terrific view of the lake and the downtown. I know of no other city that gives these services out to inner city cockroaches that come here for nothing other than to rip off hardworking locals who make next to nothing as it is, so these freeloaders don't have to do anything except sell drugs and have 9 kids. Got tired of that REAL quick. And damn near EVERYONE in Duluth smokes. That drove me crazy.
Unless you are content being single forever, you'll have to either not go to Duluth or move away because you're not going to find anyone. And same goes for being unhappy at a low wage job if you have a degree. You'll never find anything great in Duluth no matter how good your education or how hard you work.