Anyone from Andover, MN care to reveal the secret?

On money.cnn.com, they had one of those cheesey Top 10 Best Places to Live. And so of course, I clicked on it.

Here is what the entry for Mountain View, CA (a finalist) looks like:

Nothing surprising there… so then I checked out the places in the Top 10 Coldest Places. Unsurprisingly, all the places listed were in Minnesota. I did notice something a bit peculiar about them though – check out Andover, MN for example:

Did you notice that? Let me recap in this table:

[Note that this doesn't cover the higher taxes, the higher auto insurance, the higher sales tax, and higher everything (higher housing prices naturally translate to higher labor costs) in California.]

So… to all you Andover, MN readers – I must ask this question: What the heck do you do with all that extra money?

Is there some secret in MN that I don’t know about? That everyone has gold plated ice scrapers? Go to Aruba every winter? Where does it all go?

UPDATE: Err… nevermind. Apparently I could just ask my parents since they live near this town which has stats like the MN town above. And that’s in NY!