October in Minnesota

[mellowtigger]

The weather has turned chilly at long last.  I removed the air conditioner from the window today.

Coronavirus is still surging according to wastewater testing, and hospital usage hit a high for 2021 (not as bad as 2020 yet). Although looking at the map, this time it's mostly a rural problem instead of the Twin Cities metro.

Apparently, rich people want into my neighborhood so adamantly now that I'm getting SMS text messages out of the blue from realtors wanting to buy my house. ("Hi, I'm looking for a place, and [my redacted street address], it's in the right area. I think you'd like my proposings Let me know.")

Part of me still wants to stay, so I've resumed job hunting.

Gunfire here is still awful. People still die just from being in the wrong place at the wrong time (whether in a car or on a scooter, and it's becoming the same in south Minneapolis and St. Paul), because of the bullets flying all over the place. Not just any bullets, but from high capacity magazines and semi-automatic gunfire.

But, sure, everything would be better if Team A versus Team B were in charge... instead of people who are committed to trying something new instead of the same stuff that got us to this point.  I keep getting paper mailings from the pro-police crowd.  Somehow, none of them realize that other cities are doing what we want to do here, while our police are interfering with those same plans.  But we're still the dangerous radicals, somehow.  At least it'll be decided in a few weeks... until the next election, anyway.

Comments

[foeclan]

I also got a text message out of the blue from someone wanting to buy my house. It's a little creepy, to be honest.

[mellowtigger]

Ah! So maybe more likely a "robocall". That makes me feel better, actually. I tried looking up that phone number on the web, and Google gave me a ReMax realtor page as the top search result... even though that phone number appeared nowhere on that webpage.

[brian_bogue]

I have gotten several of those, some to buy my house and one persistent one that wants to buy my condo. I have never owned either of those.

[darkoshi]

Here around town, it's common to see signs up offering to buy houses in any condition, and I get postcards and such at my address trying to see if I'm interested in selling. One of my cellphones also gets text messages of that sort, except addressed someone else's name and address, who must have had the phone number a long time ago. I think they're trying to find people who'll sell for much less than the properties are worth, not a particular location.