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Old 07-17-2008, 06:20 PM
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Demi1, I agree with you about the nice Victorians. Yes, there are some other nice things about Elgin too. You can find a silver lining in almost every cloud if you look hard enough.

Hello back at you, myrc60! I also agree with your statement that there's not much here to dislike in the Greenville area. Unfortunately, more and more people have discovered how great it is and are coming in. I hope that doesn't eventually spoil its wonderfulness.
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Old 07-17-2008, 06:38 PM
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haha thanks guys, im thinking eastcoast or honolulu depends how much i have saved, im gonna be a police officer. im a renter type person so a a place like baltimore or boston is perfect, I have been to all three and love them
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Old 07-17-2008, 07:39 PM
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I think anyone would jump at Hawaii! But I hear the cost of living is pretty high there and I'm not sure that the pay rates support it.

Chicago is a great town; don't get me wrong. But if you can't afford to take advantage of all that it offers it's kinda useless. If you're just scraping by in Chicago you can do the same just about anywhere.

There are a lot of transplants in my area and if you read these boards a lot of people that want to be transplants. Cost of living is getting to high in many areas (Chicago included) and people are tired of it.
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Old 07-17-2008, 08:16 PM
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sometimes it just seems like the grass is greener somewhere else! It might be nice to go somewhere else for a while, but I think I would miss living in this area.
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Old 07-17-2008, 11:08 PM
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What's with these South Carolinians crashing the Chicago boards and trashing Chicago? If I popped in on the South Caronlina boards, I'm sure I could find a thing or 500,000 to complain about...
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Old 07-17-2008, 11:28 PM
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I would rather scrape by in Chicago than scrape by in Mauldin anyday of the week-365...
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Old 07-18-2008, 12:20 AM
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fwiw, I hate Houston & am dying to get back to Chicagoland!

To the OP, I was born in Elgin (Sherman) & grew up in C'ville. It was quite a few years ago & I realize things have changed. However, back then, there was even LESS to the area than now (no buses for one thing, so the housewives were pretty much stuck until they got a second car, which wasn't the norm back in the days when dinosaurs walked). Even so, I never wanted to live any place but that area of the Fox Valley. Unfortunately, I was dragged to Fla. when I was 13 & stayed for 11 years (Bradenton, Tampa & Jacksonville) & hated every second (I'm not a warm weather person & got really tired of being told I was a GD Yankee & I should go home/back to my own country - seriously). Moved to Algonquin for a year & wiped out during my first snowstorm (on the then 2 lane/rural Randall Road, on my way to work in St. Charles). Swore never again & the next Fall moved to Houston for the first time (some family had moved here). Stayed for 3 semi-miserable years (didn't miss trying to drive in the snow!) & went back to Algonquin for 5 1/2 years & thought it was for good. Circumstances forced me back here & here I've been for the last 18+ years.

The point of the above mini-biography? To let you know that there really is "no place like home" & I've lived in enough places to know the truth of it. Before you decide to make a break for it, take a vacation to wherever. Or, if you can find cheap enough airfare (hahahaha), go to wherever for a weekend. It won't be the same as living there, but actually being someplace will give you a better idea if it's really the place for you. You might be surprised & find moving to the city is as far as you need to go. Or, you might find out you really do hate the Mid-West & need to get your skates on.
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Old 07-18-2008, 02:35 AM
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where is it and why???

I need one more year of saving and college before I can leave Elgin IL, I truly hate the midwest I feel like its just blahhh
i was B0RN && RAiSED in ELGiN,iLLiNOiS and boyyyyy do i feel your pain! i dislike ELGiN with a passion. it's not even soo much Elgin, it's the people IN Elgin and the lack of a way to move up if you will. Like everyone there has no desire to better themselves and the ones who do have already left or are in the process of leaving! i have to be honest though sometimes i miss it because it's where i was born and i still have a lot of family living there, but i would NEVERR EVER move back... when i moved back to illinois from Phoenix, Arizona i cried everyday (actually i still do from time to time) the Midwest sucks, i dont even like Chicago... i dont see the whole uproar about how great it is because i truly dont see the charm or greatness of it! So that's why when i can save up enough im heading to San Diego, California babeh!

I've been dying to move there since i was little, i finally got the chance to visit back in 2004 and fell in love even more! I can't wait to call it home
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Old 07-18-2008, 03:32 AM
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i was B0RN && RAiSED in ELGiN,iLLiNOiS and boyyyyy do i feel your pain! i dislike ELGiN with a passion. it's not even soo much Elgin, it's the people IN Elgin and the lack of a way to move up if you will. Like everyone there has no desire to better themselves and the ones who do have already left or are in the process of leaving! i have to be honest though sometimes i miss it because it's where i was born and i still have a lot of family living there, but i would NEVERR EVER move back... when i moved back to illinois from Phoenix, Arizona i cried everyday (actually i still do from time to time) the Midwest sucks, i dont even like Chicago... i dont see the whole uproar about how great it is because i truly dont see the charm or greatness of it! So that's why when i can save up enough im heading to San Diego, California babeh!

I've been dying to move there since i was little, i finally got the chance to visit back in 2004 and fell in love even more! I can't wait to call it home
Neither can we with your attitude towards the area.

You can get the same idea through by saying "The Midwest isn't for me." instead of "I hate the Midwest."
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Old 07-18-2008, 08:04 AM
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I hate the Midwest.
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