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Albuquerque, NM
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re: Very, Very, Very expensive to live here - 2/22
I moved back here in December, after being in a different state for three years. I had originally moved to Minnesota in 1994, from the East Coast. I am leaving at the end of November, when the lease is up. I was lured here by a CPA (who despite his intelligence on accounting/taxation, is really your typical, insular, backward Minnesotan) with the promise of 500 tax clients and a decent income for only three months of work. Instead, his uneducated, Fargo sounding receptionist of 19 years stole my clients since she and her Fargo sounding husband needed more money. I had been in this line of work for 11 years; she two - preparing taxes. Then, of course, the CPA says I "disrupted" the office? Oh, I'm sure with my East Coast accent. It is not a friendly place; never has been. Minnesota Nice is BS, to say the least. People here don't work hard. They resent having to use their personal and free time for other matters. (Where I worked for all of one month, another employee's wife was going to physical therapy appointments on work time and then she and her husband wondered why she was called into the office, stating she has to do that on her days off, or without pay. You think food is high here. Try gas, due to the monopoly that Holiday has on the area, and is allowed to get away with it since it is a locally based employer. Minnesota and its people are very insular and inbred. One of my favorites here is how they will be "pretending" they are working - moving papers around, looking all over the place - when you are trying to have a conversation with them. They are very strange people. And, I know that since I have lived other places. And, you certainly don't want people to know you are not from here - weren't born here and didn't attend high school here (like a recently elected Council person does; she will never admit to anyone and doesn't bring up the fact she didn't live here for the first two decades of her life). They act on email and on the phone to be so damn nice, but in person, they back off and put up their walls. They'll take your money, but will never give your directions to their home. The roads are terrible. They don't fix their potholes. I fell later January - tripping over a commercial property owners built up ice since he was too lazy and cheap to clear it regularly - and I was told by lawyers with the county referral system that "this is Minnesota in January; these things happen." Oh, I guess that's the nice BS part. I figured I had to return here to finally realize that I will never look back on this place again. I'd rather pay a tax on cheaper food and clothing and lower gas prices and live in a more heavily traveled part of the country where you will not have an insular culture.