Have you ever been to Shakopee or Eden Prairie or Maple Grove?
Of course, silly. Shakopee has Valleyfair, Eden Prairie had some sort of academic event (now that's a sprawling hell, the interstate out to there was horrible, and we had to drive for like 20 minutes to find any sort of restaurant ), and I have some friends in Maple Grove. I don't see anything really wrong with them, though (besides Eden Prairie's frightening lack of restaurants... even fast food restaurants!). When was the last time you went to Maple Grove? It develops really quickly, so it has probably changed since you've seen it last
About 3 months ago. My grandmother lives there.
When you're able to drive you should go drive though Shakopee on US-169. All the new houses they're building hordes of are utterly hideous.