# Minneapolis: Research says you should move to the Twin Cities - Host: [slate.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/slate.com/) - Saved: November 7, 2012 (2012-11-07T23:04:37Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ec20a8aef949/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ec20a8aef949.json ## What Jamie wrote All the great things about the Twin Cities.
Of the 15 highest-income metropolitan areas in the United States, 14 are in high-cost coastal areas. The other one, clocking in at No. 12 with a median household income about 23 percent above the national average, is the Minneapolis-St Paul MSA with its low low Midwestern prices. People appear to be deterred from moving to Minneapolis on the grounds that it's very cold, but David Schkade and Daniel Kahneman have found that people's thinking about weather and happiness is dominated by "focusing illusion" in which "easily observed and distinctive differences between locations are given more weight in such judgments than they will have in reality." They specifically looked at the weather gap between California and the Midwest and found that while Midwesterners thought the good weather in California would make a huge difference in people's lives, it doesn't in reality.
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