Sure, but the people living there are also the Twin Cities' more harsh critics.What population size does prove is that people want to live there in contrast to the assertion that nobody would want to live there. Twin Cities aren't a prison camp. It's a ridiculous thing to say when people aren't restricted from leaving Minnesota to go live in Iowa or elsewhere in the states. Plenty of people obviously want to live there.
Our company was acquired by a company out of St Paul a couple of years ago, so I am there 4-5x a year. The Minneapolis natives talk more shit about Minneapolis than anyone - they openly call it Murderapolis. It seems most are starting to move out of the city to suburbs like Inner Grove and Eden Prairie.
You couldn't pay me to live in the Minneapolis or St Paul city limits. Both have turned into total shit holes.