Minneapolis is sort of mellow..not a whole lot going on in the first place. when the freeway bridge went down a few years ago people jumped into help and in the winter pushing a stranger's car out of a snowbank is kind of a sport.it's by no means perfect and has it share of crime but on a one to ten-one being really bad--i would give it an eight..by the way our kids came in first in the nation for being the least obese.with all the new road clearing gear we have now i don't think we would ever have a "shut down the city" snowstorm again and thats about the only natural disaster that might come our way.