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Old 06-26-2012, 10:16 AM
 
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I hate everything about the North Side. The North side is not Chicago anymore in my honest opinion. Its not "tough" , if you know what I mean. You feel like you are in Portland Oregon.
I wish it felt like Portland. The parts of the North Side that I think you're talking about (Near North, LP/LV and recently WP) feel to me more like an upper-middle-class Midwestern suburb with the old people removed. I neither love nor hate those neighborhoods, as they're really too bland for me to have a strong opinion about either way.

There's nothing in Chicago that feels like Portland to me, though I get the idea that WP in the 90's or early 2000's might have, to some extent.
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Old 06-26-2012, 10:37 AM
 
Location: River North, Chicago, Illinois
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I wish it felt like Portland. The parts of the North Side that I think you're talking about (Near North, LP/LV and recently WP) feel to me more like an upper-middle-class Midwestern suburb with the old people removed. I neither love nor hate those neighborhoods, as they're really too bland for me to have a strong opinion about either way.

There's nothing in Chicago that feels like Portland to me, though I get the idea that WP in the 90's or early 2000's might have, to some extent.
Well, Portland is not nearly as universally "weird" as it likes to advertise itself to be.
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Old 06-26-2012, 10:39 AM
 
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The Northside just has some really weird artsy people. Just like Portland does.
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Old 06-26-2012, 10:41 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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If only they were all golfers.
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Old 06-26-2012, 10:41 AM
 
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Well, Portland is not nearly as universally "weird" as it likes to advertise itself to be.
True. As evidenced by the fact that they stole Austin's "Keep _____ Weird" slogan. I still find at least major pockets of the population there to be more free-spirited and socially liberal than Chicago.
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Old 06-26-2012, 10:56 AM
 
Location: Nort Seid
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I hate everything about the North Side. The North side is not Chicago anymore in my honest opinion. Its not "tough" , if you know what I mean. You feel like you are in Portland Oregon.
...what would a bruiser like yourself be doing in Portland in the first place? Or the North Side, for that matter?

the lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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Old 06-26-2012, 10:58 AM
 
Location: Nort Seid
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The Northside just has some really weird artsy people. Just like Portland does.
Don't look back comrade, the old websites are behind you!

Bridgeport represents.
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Old 06-26-2012, 11:02 AM
 
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The Northside just has some really weird artsy people. Just like Portland does.
Not really. Pilsen and Bridgeport have elements of it, but nothing like Portland, and they're not on the North Side, anyway.
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Old 06-26-2012, 11:03 AM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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The weird artsy set in Chicago seems to be spread all over the place these days.
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Old 06-26-2012, 11:07 AM
 
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The weird artsy set in Chicago seems to be spread all over the place these days.
I suppose Logan Square also has elements of it and is on the North(west) Side, but it's hardly a neighborhood that is representative of the North Side as a whole.
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