Can I take a minute to complain about the weather here (Chicago: apartment, home)

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by 87vertgt

very good point...you made my day.....cant stand all those new building and new yuppies and rich people......

Nothing like another Sout' Sider complaining about Yuppies. I hate most of the new tacky condo buildings as well, but the class war stuff is getting old--as are the "Yuppie" stereotypes. Most Young Urban Professionals don't drive Bimmers, sip Perrier, and hang out in tennis clubs. And most aren't rich--though it's all relative, I suppose.

[noplacelike]

Originally Posted by j33

If you really like your job in Schaumburg and don't like the notion of living in the burbs, I'd consider relocating to the northwest side of the city, it might not be as hip as Bridgeport is (yes, Bridgeport is fast becoming the new hipster hang out, full of young people who wear skinny jeans and complain about 'the yuppies'), but you'd be a lot closer to work and still be on an 'el' line. Life is too short to spend it in the car.

Yes, the natives of Bridgeport are losing their spark. Back in the day, these invaders would wake up in an alley.

[noplacelike]

Originally Posted by 87vertgt

very good point...you made my day.....cant stand all those new building and new yuppies and rich people......

Ditto, worse are the people that come with them. It was nice when everyone in Wrigley Field was actually born on the North Side, etc.

[87vertgt]

Originally Posted by j33

If you really like your job in Schaumburg and don't like the notion of living in the burbs, I'd consider relocating to the northwest side of the city, it might not be as hip as Bridgeport is (yes, Bridgeport is fast becoming the new hipster hang out, full of young people who wear skinny jeans and complain about 'the yuppies'), but you'd be a lot closer to work and still be on an 'el' line. Life is too short to spend it in the car.

hip? here? I dont like hip....I like the non english speaking asians, the hillbilly rednecks from canaryville that move here thinking they are cool and the old white people who worked for the city or wanna work for the city or just think they are something cause they live in Daleys old negioborhood....

anyway...

yeah I hate spending 2 hours a day in my car......

[87vertgt]

Originally Posted by noplacelike

Ditto, worse are the people that come with them. It was nice when everyone in Wrigley Field was actually born on the North Side, etc.

yep...I love the bar scene there.......funny how people from the neigborhood came from suburbs and other states...

[j33]

Oh yes, Bridgeport is the new bastion of hipsters who are shunning wicker park. With magazines like Lumpen moving down there it won't be long until people are moaning and groaning about the days 'the neighborhood used to be cool' ... this stuff is so predictable.

[noplacelike]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

Nothing like another Sout' Sider complaining about Yuppies. I hate most of the new tacky condo buildings as well, but the class war stuff is getting old--as are the "Yuppie" stereotypes. Most Young Urban Professionals don't drive Bimmers, sip Perrier, and hang out in tennis clubs. And most aren't rich--though it's all relative, I suppose.

I was born in Uptown and I don't like the yuppies either. It is not a class issue, it is about attitudes, interests and values.

So, we all agree that the new buildings are butt ugly. Even if the architecture is decent, the cheap, tacky materials are unendurable.

[j33]

Oh great, so this is going to be some sort insular "transplants, people from suburbs, and people who have more money than I do suck" type of thread?

Provincialism is silly. I don't care if the person next to me at the pub was born in Uptown, Naperville, Dallas, Tikrit, Warsaw, or Mexico city, I don't care if he or she pulls in six figures, or is barely making 5, as long as he or she is a decent person.

[via chicago]

Its simple, if you dont like your situation, move. Winter comes once a year. So does summer. And once summer comes everyone will be bitching about that too. I dont get it. But for the love of god, leave, the rest of us who dont freak out over a dusting of snow in peace!

[via chicago]

Originally Posted by j33

Oh great, so this is going to be some sort insular "transplants, people from suburbs, and people who have more money than I do suck" type of thread?

Provincialism is silly. I don't care if the person next to me at the pub was born in Uptown, Naperville, Dallas, pulls in six figures, or is barely making 5, as long as he or she is a decent person.

People fear change. They see different faces and different buildings going up in their neighborhoods and they freak out. Thing is, you weren't the first person there either and you probably displaced some other group. No one holds ownership. Problem is, some think they do.