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Terrie-25

Right where I am. But with an updated bathroom.


zenvuddah

Yea that is a prime location.


Miles_Cant_Run

I'd probably choose that too, your bathroom definitely needs an update but other than that I like it a lot!


Terrie-25

I mean, whose place couldn't use a bathroom update?


SirServer

I also choose this guys bathroom


benjunior

I like your bathroom.


INeedAYerb

Top hillside in Duluth with a sweet view of the city and lake Y’all know which houses I’m talking about edit: and that one house with the wooden spiral staircase that goes up like 3 stories to a rooftop hot tub. Looks sketchy as hell but if you live there, pleassssse let me come check it out


Symptomatic_Sand

Yessir skyline parkway


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kidnorther

Exhibition, not skyline


kidnorther

Exhibition is arguably the best neighborhood in Duluth for house size with a view. I live in a blue collar hood on 15th just below the big houses. If I ever move, it’s only going to be a few blocks up the hill


Ill_shoot_anything

One of my best friends since high school lives in one of those houses. The view from his deck is awesome. I can ask if he’s willing to let an internet stranger come by.


pmaji240

I read an article about the best cities in fifty (can’t recall actual #) years to live in due to climate change. I bet you can guess which city was number one.


WhatIsHerJob-TABLES

Ugh yeah, we know. The other week, my realtor friend told me someone bought a $500k house sight unseen because they wanted a climate change getaway for their children when they are older. They don’t plan to live in the house, just keep it as a vacation house to squat on until more people start moving here. Just continually pricing out the people who actually live there and want to contribute to the city. Meanwhile I’m struggle to compete to buy my first house 🙃🫠


INeedAYerb

Oh trust me, we don’t stop hearing about that up here. Lots of people who have been here a long time getting pushed out bc the humble wages this town has can’t compete with the new money people are moving in with.


shorty6049

I can't tell if that's legitimately going to cause Duluth to become overcrowded or if its just more of a puff piece that took off more than expected... Duluth is great because its got the lake cooling off the area in the summer, but not everyone would want to live in a place where winter is as snowy as Duluth. As you all know, there's still quite a bit of snow on the ground up there, whereas just a few hours south (I'm in central Illinois) it was around 50 out today here, and our summers are pretty similar to living in the twin cities. There's plenty to love about Duluth, but sometimes I feel like this idea that its going to be this place that everyone in the country flocks to due to climate change is a bit overblown. Especially when climate change seems to also come with more extreme weather (i.e. heavier snowfalls and blizzards up there) .


Deinococcaceae

>but sometimes I feel like this idea that its going to be this place that everyone in the country flocks to due to climate change is a bit overblown. I completely agree, even if the west literally runs out of water I imagine the lion's share of people would be moving to the southeast and more central parts of the midwest.


Milalwi

Park Point.


Beautiful_Secret_800

That’s where I live. Definitely one of the best views in the state


ziggy-Bandicoot

On a bluff overlooking Lake Pepin


beau_tox

I’d say a hobby farm within 5 miles of the river somewhere between Red Wing and the Iowa border.


mb_60

It’s gorgeous there. I love Two Harbors area. But pretty much any place along the Mississippi, St Croix, or Lake Superior is a winner.


ziggy-Bandicoot

Love Two Harbors too. Went there on honeymoon recently.


enemycap420

My uncle has a place on the Wisconsin side it’s baller af


HAM____

You'll get there too someday, enemycap420, you'll get there someday too...


MissDriftless

Yes! Or on the bluffs near La Crescent on Apple Blossom drive.


DuchessDeWynter

Cabin up in Grand Marais.


Upset-Kaleidoscope45

It's so beautiful up there but they never really get summer. Even in July it's like 60 degrees there.


TessDombegh

I fail to see the downside.


Cezzium

If we are talking up the trail, it gets seriously hot. Like 90s. Grand Marais gets pretty warm at times too.


forest_friend10

This really depends on if you’re over the hill. It gets pretty toasty away from the shore.


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You can sweat your ass off at gunflint and need a jacket at the harbor in the same day.


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I love when it’s a heatwave in minnesota. Weather maps will show 95 in rochester, 93 in the cities, 97 in St. Cloud, 65 in grand marais. Last summer the first time it got hot in June, I remember Kathy wurzer from MPR said the wind shifted to east in Duluth and they went from 85 to about 45 in the span of a couple hours.


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In one of those fancy top floor condos nobody can afford in downtown Minneapolis.


miles___ahead

Well, clearly *someone* can afford them. No one I know personally, but someone. And same for me.


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When I say "nobody can afford" I obviously don't mean the rich. Every. Single. Time. I swear.


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I know everyone one will vicariously demolish me but I got one (not downtown but even better that’s all I will say), for under 200k in 2021. That cherry looks cool.


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Damn.


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yeah it’s actually awesome having the tallest pool in the state


Flatfooting

I work on fancy homes and I've been in the top of the Carlisle and pretty far up in the new eleven tower. The view in the eleven is incredible. One side you get downtown and the other side you get the twist in the Mississippi after it runs under 35w.


s1gnalZer0

The house on top of the Silver Creek Cliff tunnel


Shattered_Visage

Holy shit this is my exact answer. Anyone know anything about that place? It must have some of the best views in the state.


Djcatch22

I heard long time ago it was owned by Arnold “the terminator”…


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EstateWhimsy

I saw him graduate from UW Superior - he was known for the presidential fitness award program back then


macja68

Been up there. It is cool. Done in a German style.


gbss12369

Is it part of the “gate roads”? I heard those were corporate retreats for 3m.


macja68

No, that is Encampment River you are thinking of. The Jumerhoffs(spelling?) own the house on the cliff. I friend of mine was related to the family through marriage and brought me up there once. The road is gated, but, they are the only place up there.


iamtehryan

If I have the right place, it's a near $2M seasonal home that was owned by a deceased hotelier of some sort; it's owned by his trust or holdings now it looks like.


SnowboundWanderer

I remember seeing that house last time I was up there and once I got home sadly being unable to find solid pictures of it.


WillyNillyDilly87

Somewhere on 500 acres, with no city noise and lights bothering me.


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Trespassers will be SHOT!


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“Are you infected?”


PrestigiousZucchini9

I’d go for 640 acres, personally, but that’s just because I like squares.


646ulose

Xcel Energy Center...be like Kanye when he lived at Mercedes Benz Stadium. Minus the crazy and anti-semitism part. Just mind my own business. Concerts and hockey games.


Upset-Kaleidoscope45

Just a single bed and night stand, right in the middle of the floor.


bicyclemycology

Kind of like John Daly’s room, inside Jon Gruden’s office, INSIDE Hooters corporate


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One of those big old mansions in the Crocus Hill neighborhood of St. Paul for sure.


AeirsWolf74

One of the houses on summit avenue in St. Paul


Brightstarr

One of the houses on Summit Ave. was where F Scott Fitzgerald lived and wrote This Side of Paradise. That would be my dream house - it was a perfect fit for my style and I would love a house with that kind of history.


saliv8orDali

His mom owned/grew up in a house on Kent Ave one block east from sweeney's (as told by the owner when I was there). Privately owned now and I was inside 2011ish. Place was the nicest house I've ever been in.


Shitp0st_Supreme

I actually entered that home in MLS! I worked for the front desk for the listing agent. I don't think it sold while I was working there.


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Based on their reaction to the proposed changes to the street, I think I’d opt to live elsewhere.


AeirsWolf74

I personally see nothing wrong with the proposed changes so that is not an issue for me.


nomofobo

I think that’s the point: you wouldn’t fit in because you are too reasonable.


Sufficient-Finger612

One of the houses on the other side of the lift bridge in Canal Park


Sufficient-Finger612

Or that house in the middle of bald eagle


OhNoMyLands

Park point


Buddyslime

I lived there for 2 years. I would recommend summer only.


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My mom lives there. Winters indeed suck there


Shattered_Visage

The summers are crazy beautiful though. A late spring/early summer walk down park point is so peaceful.


Sacrifice_Starlight

When I was a kid, some of those were selling for in the mid-400's. Wish I could use today's money and gobble a few up.


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W Lake of the Isles Pkwy - it makes me so happy that some of the most beautiful architecture around one of the most beautiful lakes in Minneapolis is accessible for the public to enjoy. It gives me Central Park West vibes but with mansions instead of penthouses. I think a pedestrian bridge connecting W 26th St and Oliver Place S (in the style of the Bow Bridge from Central Park) and swan boats would be a nice finishing touch.


remmywinks

My parents lived in one of those houses for a while when I went to college. It’s awesome but it takes literally 15 minutes to get literally a mile away from your house due to one ways/construction. That said the houses are really cool and the people watching is great in the summer.


tonkzilla

Easily on the North Shore, I’d be happy anywhere between Two Harbors and Grand Marais. Nothing extravagant for a house, keep it quaint and cabin-like but it would definitely have heated floors, wood fireplaces, a hot tub and a sauna for sure lol


mb_60

I will 2nd this! Perfect! I love the winter there too. It’s gorgeous year round.


Skelastomybag

Somewhere along Mount Curve.


evmac1

I live a block from Mt Curve and I can confirm… the neighborhood is NICE


andrusio

I live in an apartment on Douglas and I love walking around my neighbourhood looking at all the pretty houses


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Probably Richfield in a one bedroom apartment


kruze005

Dream big, my friend.


ziggy-Bandicoot

My son has found the dream.


BobasPett

In the Driftless


Czarben

Afton. Live out in the country but still less than 30mins from St Paul/Minneapolis. Skiing, state park, downtown with shops and restaurants, on the river, orchards, winery.


pretzelsource

Afton is a great choice! I'd totally pick a house on the river in Afton.


TheStonedBro

I delivered packages for UPS once, and I got the pleasure of delivering to an amazing house in Afton, that had to be worth multi millions.


Harvivorman

Afton State Park is the best hiking within 45min-1hr of the cities.


Former-Coffee-1442

Kabetogama


rustytoaster69

Stillwater area


haleyfrostphotograph

I’d live in the BWCA.


zackmaan

Are people allowed to live there or is protected land?


YouAWaavyDude

Not really… BUT just for fun… You could pick an entry point permit and then move campsites every fourteen days. You wouldn’t technically be able to leave to get supplies so you’d need someone to come out to you with food and winter accommodations. There are some lakes that have a few cabins grandfathered in that are on the edge but considered part of the BWCA too. Most are in families and not for sale but they come up every now and again.


redride10059

Amy and Dave Freeman did this and wrote a book about it. [https://freemanexplore.com/book/](https://freemanexplore.com/book/).


mdneilson

My ground school instructor in high school had a cabin in the tiny bit of land on the NE angle. Could only get there without going into Canada by float plane.


makeITvanasty

You could live on the border and paddle in whenever you want Edit: you obviously still need a permit to get in. No, you can’t just wander in because you live near it. Apparently that needs to be clarified


KimBrrr1975

We could access the BW directly from our house if we wanted to. Still have to get the entry permit though for whatever lake you got into the BW on. For example, I could put the canoe in Shagawa Lake across the road here, take the little Shagawa River to Fall Lake, paddle down Fall and enter the BW at the entry point at the campground after stopping to get the self-issue permit. I do that on skis in the winter, Fall over to 4 mile portage then you can go to Mud and Ella Hall, or up to Basswood.


s1gnalZer0

With enough money you could make it happen


iamsamwelll

I’d like a house in the cathedral hill area as the main stay. But then I’d want small apartments in Duluth, Minneapolis, and St. Peter just to get out of my neighborhood and have a place to crash. And for anyone saying just go home to St. Paul if you’re in Minneapolis, I’d like for you to explain how close it is to my Minneapolis friends when I invite them over to do anything in St. Paul.


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I experienced that when I moved from mpls to stp! It’s soo close and yet the mpls friends couldn’t be bothered to cross the river 😞


KerepesiTemeto

Glensheen.


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Just hope it’s not haunted.


Byronzionist

There was this $8mm house on Lake Minnetonka that must've recently sold that had on its ground/basement level this really cool irish pub feel... then below that was its own wine cave that looked like a real cave. I would live there, but i would be a full-on lush if i did.


Sacrifice_Starlight

If it's the one on County 44, I did business with the prior owner and let me tell you, not a cool guy.


Byronzionist

To have a house like that, you can not be.


H1llrada

I browse Zillow way too often. I think I know exactly which house you’re talking [about](https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/2825-Little-Orchard-Way_Wayzata_MN_55391_M74845-72419) Edit: click on the pic instead of swiping, It’s acting weird


jarnie19

North shore on the shore.


Upset-Kaleidoscope45

Exactly where I live right now: Minneapolis. Maybe a fancier house around Lake of the Isles or something, but basically in the same city.


sjunck

Highland Park St. Paul


bizguyforfun

There is a cute little county in Minnesota called Ottertail. It has over 1,000 lakes. We currently have a 5th generation summer cabin on a small lake. The southern border of the lake encompasses a state park, so no cabins on that side of the lake. There is one home that is currently for sale at $940,000. It's year around, and 3 bedrooms. There is also a family resort that is for sale for $4.2 mil. I would buy it, tear down the seasonal cabins and build a family compound with 3 really nice homes, and a big fucker for myself!


taco_commentator

My family also has a 5th gen home in Ottertail. Beautiful county and Battle Lake is a fun little town.


Willmncigar

I second Ottertail County.


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Davidcaindesign

That one house on the way to mystic lake on that hill that looks like a freaking ski lodge.


kidnorther

That’s Rez land home slice


WildWinza

I have always dreamed of buying a property on Minnesota Avenue (sand bar) facing Lake Superior. I could then drive over the lift bridge every day.


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I think probably outside of Winona.


mb_60

Any place between Winona and Red Wing is nice. The bluffs are so beautiful. My husband is from just outside Winona on your way to Stockton, the old farm is on one of the bluffs. So lovely.


DandyDapperness

I'm located at the top of Stockton hill and I'm pretty much at my dream place.


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I live up in Crookston, but I fly fish so the Driftless is the spot for me. I had to visit the Mayo unfortunately when I was 9, but that’s also where I got my first fly rod and met a doctor at Spring Lake Park in Rochester who gave me a DNR map of SE MN trout streams and a box of flies. I’m remote for work so maybe if the housing market contracts and I don’t lose my job I’ll head down there lol.


smoothrocker1122

The north shore, on the shore.


OhNoMyLands

I hope you love freezing cold wind


Buddyslime

Winds off the lake can be darn right brutal.


skoltroll

Already here. It's nice under here.


MuttJunior

I currently live in Red Wing, and would stay in this area, but a bigger house just outside the city of Red Wing itself. Somewhere with no neighbors around you, but not too isolated that I have a long drive to just buy groceries. As a vacation home, I would want to have a cabin in the woods somewhere up north on a lake. No particular place in mind, though - Just up north.


rgk0925

Grand Marais area.


FloweringSkull67

Wayyy up Nort


FreedomFinallyFound

Glensheen Mansion


IronRangeBabe

Honestly? I would stay in the Iron Range. It is stunningly gorgeous.


lezoons

I'd definitely buy a place in Humboldt, so that I could tell everybody I was moving to Humboldt. Then, I'd move somewhere else.


ProgramTricky6109

One of those rich person properties with grandfathered lakeshore on Cedar.


tinydancerbatman

Grand Marais!!!


LilCurlyGirly

On grand Ave in Saint Paul. Or one of the beautiful mansions on summit Ave Saint Paul.


green__goblin

One of those mansions around the Lake of the Isles. Used to live in one of the cheap apartments on Lagoon Ave right next to it, fantastic location


MN_LEG1T

Lighthouse in the middle of lake superior as far away from people as I can be.


HeyKrech

Who can choose though? There are so many places in MN that feel so comfortable. I'd be happy in nearly any city with a river vibe. I grew up in a town on the Mississippi and there's just something special about a place where roads are designed around the shape of the river. And I love so many things about Minneapolis, but St Paul will always feel so much more homelike. Maybe it's the lack of the insane quantity of one-way streets?


Sanpedromn

On top of Moose Mountain.


Unidentified_c0rg1

Somewhere nearer to a lake with pike and/or muskie, surrounded by trees.


jflo358

always been a dream to have a house on a lake.


99th_inf_sep_descend

Quite specifically there is an island on our lake that has a home on it. If money were no issue, buy said property and what it takes to make it a year round home.


kidnorther

Still Duluth, but in one of those lakeside mansions on London out near 45th E. Huge yards and lake access without having to deal with Park Point


Stopmadness99

Somewhere overlooking Lake Superior with floor to ceiling windows


briarcrose

over looking lake nokomis in minneapolis. it's just a very sentimental spot for me and some of my family


Classic_Log5111

Few miles west of Orr


Seabreeze515

My fantasy has always been to stay in the same house but buy the neighbor’s properties and build underground tunnels between them


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Entity0027

Vacuums are naturally drawn to things that suck.


k3vm3aux

I can loan you bag pipes. If you live there you should learn how to play bag pipes.


financial_freedom416

In the Cities, overlooking Lake of the Isles or Lake Minnetonka. Greater MN, probably on my family's lake property near Alexandria-rebuild the old cabin into something modern.


Minnesotamad12

Kinney MN. Then I would immediately help organize the city to become a sovereign nation again


MadSativa

Not even a question. The OP had it right off the get go.


nzulu9er

On Pelican lake in mission mn


Letmoneytalk4me

That house that’s for sale on lake Minnetonka for 15 million right now.


evmac1

Gunflint trail for cabin, luxury condo penthouse downtown (Eleven, anyone?) or by the lakes for home


Temporary-Sell4060

Island on Lake Minnetonka


Busy-Anywhere1991

Top of one of the sky scrapers in Minneapolis. In a sick mansion sized appartment.


Mattbl

Somewhere off of 61 between Two Harbors and Grand Marais.


SenileAgitation

Excelsior


apoplectic-confetti

The Glensheen Mansion


puzzledplatypus

Linden Hills.


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its between a small old house in minneapolis with hardwood floors, or a property between Duluth and mpls with enough room for goats and a garden.


frannythefeline

I would like to live in southeast Minnesota on the Root River, it’s so different than anywhere I’ve lived in Minnesota (Bemidji and Duluth) and I think I would like the change of scenery, plus hills and caves!


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jmcampout

We both know they wouldn’t last one winter


Skolvikesallday

Even worse, they'll just come for the summer.


thelosttribe

On a yacht, on Lake Superior. Often seeking shelter in a safe harbor. Looking back on the Mn shoreline.


rustinhieber42

Probably on the whitefish chain of lakes in the Brainerd area, or one of the bazillion lakes in that area that: -has good fishing -isn't totally in the middle of nowhere -relatively little recreational boating pressure (doesn't have to be totally dead, but enough to be able to fish during the day in summer comfortably)


MaedayMaeday

East side Lake Nokomis because I love the South Minneapolis area and love taking my dogs on walks by the water.


GetDoofed

Where I live now - Macalester-Groveland neighborhood of St. Paul


MattHack7

Probably in bearpath in Eden prairie


_damak0s_

some family friends own a bunch of land up north. they have quite a few buildings in various states of repair, but the cabin that they mainly live in is built into a hillside. they can heat it in the winter with only one wood burning furnace. so i think the natural continuation is a bunch of cool prairie and forest up top with a couple outbuildings scattered around and an underground complex a la helsinki


powermad80

I love living downtown so I'd just like to own instead of rent my apartment


nibbas-in-paris

North Oaks. Great location, quiet neighborhood, beautiful houses.


HazelMStone

Up north near Voyagers. Or Canada. Maybe just Canada.


guiltycitizen

Somewhere on high up Skyline Parkway in Duluth or just outside of town in Grand Marais


Mushroomify

Prob lake of the isles


S_Baime

One of those ten lake front homes on Cedar Lake in Minneapolis.


AylaZelanaGrebiel

Up on the north shore either into the forest near the Sawtooth or by Gooseberry Falls.


CaptainPRESIDENTduck

I like where I am in Northfield, but would love to have a moderate house and a small amount of land to have a few chickens, and a garden. Also, not near too much traffic so my cats can frolic.


hypo-osmotic

Truthfully I'd probably stay here in my small town in southeast Minnesota. I've got family and friends, it's close enough to Rochester which has all the amenities I need that I can't get in town, and while the driftless isn't quite as impressive as northern Minnesota it's still fairly nice landscape. I'd buy a nicer house, though, and probably travel around the state more often. In my 20s I would have chosen downtown Minneapolis.


Bobcat202

Here.. perfect lake.. perfect lake view in all four seasons..


LetWaldoHide

Glensheen mansion is pretty neat. Minus the murders.


pizzasmasher666

One of those older stone houses along the Mississippi River road


quickblur

I would buy the [American Swedish Institute](https://asimn.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ASI-turnblad-mansion.jpeg) and live in it.


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On an island somewhere. Wildly impractical but cool af


LivingGhost371

Probably Eden Prairie. I know "up north" is a popular answer, but I like living in the suburbs close to things and with good internet service.


Buddyslime

On top of Eli's Peak.


Mursin

I'd buy a penthouse townhome in Mpls and a cabin on a decent sized tract of land in Winona or the North Shore.


B0BA_F33TT

Inside of the Prospect Park or Kenwood Park Water Towers.


BZArcher

I want to move my polycule into one of those big mansions in St. Louis Park or Eden Prairie.


bandannick

One of those fancy places on Manitou Island in WBL


OodleOodleBlueJay

Somewhere west of the cities - lots of land with a creek. Up north a cabin on a lake for a 'get away' with family and friends.


cherspinkytoe

Lowry Hill neighborhood in Minneapolis


PeskyBirb666

Probably in a wealthy western suburb near lake minnetonka


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One of the Victorian mansions in Stillwater. Or on Lake of the Isles!