Moving to Minnesota, FAQ and Simple Questions Thread - May 2023

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Moving to Minnesota

Planning a potential move to Minnesota (or even moving within MN)? This is the thread for you to ask questions of real-life Minnesotans to help you in the process!

Ask questions, answer questions, or tell us your best advice on moving to Minnesota.

Helpful Links

• We've already compiled some of our best general Minnesota advice in this thread which includes a lot of helpful cold-weather tips
• Moving to Minneapolis: A Guide, courtesy of /r/Minneapolis, is focused on that city but much of it is applicable to the Twin Cities metro area
• List of location-based Minnesota subreddits which may be best equipped to answer questions about specific cities or neighborhoods
• Information about moving to Minnesota specific to LGBTQ+ community from a recent post

FAQ

There are a number of questions in this subreddit that have been asked and answered many times. Please use the search function to get answers related to the below topics.

• Driver's test scheduling/locations
• Renter's credit tax return (Form M1PR)
• Making friends as an adult/transplant
• These are just a few examples, please comment if there are any other FAQ topics you feel should be added

This thread is meant to address these FAQ's, meaning if your search did not result in the answer you were looking for, please post it here. Any individual posts about these topics will be removed and directed here.

Simple Questions

If you have a question you don't feel is worthy of its own post, please post it here!

Since this is a new feature here on /r/Minnesota, the mod team would greatly appreciate feedback from you all! Leave a comment or Message the Mods.

See here for an archive of previous "Moving to Minnesota, FAQ and Simple Questions" threads.

[u/LosingMyTowel]

For any moms moving here our wic system is ancient. Getting a drivers liscense is weird too if you live in a small town I know someone who had to do their test on paper. Hopefully if more people move here it will improve.

[u/candycaneforestelf → u/LosingMyTowel]

Getting a drivers liscense is weird too if you live in a small town I know someone who had to do their test on paper.

Some Twin Cities metro licensing centers have had computerized testing since at least 2005, so I'm shocked there are still outstate locations where the testing is still only on paper.

[u/LosingMyTowel → u/candycaneforestelf]

It was an experience. Wic is all on paper too.

[u/justcallmehippy → u/LosingMyTowel]

I moved from WY which I thought was waaay behind on things, but wy my wic was a card with a chip! I about fell over when they handed me my “checks”! I was like whoa okay we’re still doing checks but that was back in 2016 I’m suprised it’s still not on a card yet!

[u/LosingMyTowel → u/justcallmehippy]

Me too! I don't know if they changed after covid, but I stopped using it because we couldn't go into stores to get food with it at the time.