Once you have found the perfect neighborhood or the perfect home, I urge you to spend some time in the neighborhood.  Interview some fo the residents.  Watch and listen to traffic flows during both peak and off-peak traffic hours.  That way, you will have no unpleasant surprizes after you move in.

MAJOR EMPLOYERS IN MINNESOTA

• Alliant Techsystems
• Allina Health System
• American Express
• Anderson Windows
• Best Buy
• Blue Cross of Minnesota
• Cargill
• Carlson Companies
• Ecolab
• General Mills
• Honeywell
• Medtronic
• Nash Finch
• Northwest Airlines
• Pillsbury
• Polaris Industries
• Qwest Communications
• Saint Jude Medical
• Super Valu
• Target Corporation
• TCF Financial Corp.
• Travlers Insurance.
• 3M Company
• Toro Corporation
• United Health Group
• University of Minnesota
• US Bancorp
• Wells Fargo

I have had the pleasure of working as a consultant to many of these companies.  I have satisfied customers who work at each, several having transferred into Minnesota from other locations.  We have great employers in Minnesota.  Each takes very good care of its employees. 

NOTE: State and Federal governments, the largest employers in this State and most others, have been specifically excluded.  We need not encourage them, government expands quite nicely of its own volition.