It could be that other than Sioux Hockey GF sucks (& with games on TV it makes it harder to drive that far) - it's never been a destination city, or even the regional center for shopping (I bet as many or more from Winnipeg by pass GF for Fargo), or for smaller towns people just wanting to go rent a motel for a winter weekend of fun, like Minot or Bismarck gets. I grew up in NW ND & over 35 yrs it has amazed me how few people from out that way even travel thru GF
- sameol folks with the sameol attitudes (especially those born there) about wanting to control things & at the same time wanting to grow & be bigger - I lived there for over 35 yrs & now that I have been to Fargo Minot & Bismarck & Devils Lake more, I have less desire to go back there, other than hockey - GF is what it is ......sorry
& I bet with oil & energy Bismarck (already is) & now Minot & Williston & Dickinson will keep growing - so will Fargo - GF... can't imagine why it would grow ?
I hate to be so brutally honest but GF is not "North Dakota Nice" - (neither is Fargo) but they are just going to get bigger like Sioux Falls is in SD - 20 30 40 50 yrs ago a lot of small town / rural folks came to GF for work, in the last 10 to 15 yrs not so much - In fact Jobs in GF have been terrible in recent yrs
- I have visited with lots of folks, in the last year who went to school at UND, but other than that, they have very few fond memories of GF - I'm fast becoming one of those
I voted for the Alerus & at the time said many times GF needs as many things as possible to make it a more interesting fun place to live - I know most Senior Citizens did not want it - looking back I did not hardly ever go to things there.......... & I agree with Whistler 100%