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In the Twin Cities it runs from downtown Minneapolis through the southwest. It probably began because the best lakes in Minneapolis are to the southwest of downtown. These became the focus of most of the cities early upscale neighborhoods (Uptown, Kenwood, Linden Hills), then when suburbanization began, the first high end suburbs (Edina, St Louis Park) were a continuation of that. The west suburbs are favored too, mostly because Lake Minnetonka is a big lake with tons of bays and inlets which gave it a huge amount of shoreline for upscale development. The least favored is to the north and northwest.