I’m from MN and been gone since the early 90s. How long have you been gone, because frankly, the MN you remember is no more.
My parents are selling their lake cabin, it’s in the mid-range drive from the TCs. It’s one of the last non-mcMansioned cabins on that bay of the lake.
BMWs a source of embarrasment? Since when. It just takes a higher degree of disposable income to maintain.
That scandanavian embarrassed wealth thing is gone. Long gone. The lakes are becoming the becoming the competition ground in the bigger better toy. A part of lake Minnetonka is trying to be like the Sand Bar out lake Havasu.
Be careful you aren’t pining for something that is no longer there.