Are hipsters moving to Uptown? (Chicago, Lincoln: to live, club, shoppers)

[dragoro]

Originally Posted by aragx6

Do you have a picture of Reagan on your mantel?

Were supposed to like those things? Have sympathy maybe, but like? I dont know about that.

[aragx6]

Welfare Queens don't now and never did exist. They were created by Reagan the same way Harry Potter was created by JK Rowling. Pure fiction.

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by aragx6

Welfare Queens don't now and never did exist. They were created by Reagan the same way Harry Potter was created by JK Rowling. Pure fiction.

Wow, that is a very naive statement.

[neonwattagelimit]

It seems to me that while welfare queens probably did exist, Reagan made it out to be a a far bigger problem than it actually was.

[kellykapow]

When I first moved here for school a couple of years ago, my school set me up in Uptown and I had never visited that side of town. I lived in Pensacola Place on N Hazel St, if you know where that is, it's on the edge of where you say you live. and I didn't see anything hip about it. I was scared to walk to the red line at Wilson, and had to take the scenic route to the red line at Sheridan, which was always deserted, but much safer than stepping over bums along the walk.

[CarolinaBredChicagoan]

Originally Posted by kellykapow

When I first moved here for school a couple of years ago, my school set me up in Uptown and I had never visited that side of town. I lived in Pensacola Place on N Hazel St, if you know where that is, it's on the edge of where you say you live. and I didn't see anything hip about it. I was scared to walk to the red line at Wilson, and had to take the scenic route to the red line at Sheridan, which was always deserted, but much safer than stepping over bums along the walk.

Yeah, that's kinda the worst-of-both-worlds area of Uptown. Pretty boring and a touch ghetto. South of that is pretty interesting. That's Buena Park, though. North of that is pretty interesting, too, imho. Isn't Pensacola Place that area right by the big Jewel/Osco? As in, on top of the Jewel Osco?

[kellykapow]

Originally Posted by CarolinaBredChicagoan

Yeah, that's kinda the worst-of-both-worlds area of Uptown. Pretty boring and a touch ghetto. South of that is pretty interesting. That's Buena Park, though. North of that is pretty interesting, too, imho. Isn't Pensacola Place that area right by the big Jewel/Osco? As in, on top of the Jewel Osco?

Yes, it is. Their pool is on top of the Jewel Osco, actually. It was an interesting stay, but it only lasted me for 3 months. My parents moved me out of there as soon as they came to visit me.

[Lookout Kid]

Montrose to roughly Lawrence, and the Red Line to the Lake is probably the roughest part of Uptown, though it's slowly improving. There are still condos getting built there, but you'd have to have a tremendous tolerance for urban ills if you were to move there--and the prices are only a little bit discounted. But a lot of new commercial development is happening around Lawrence and Broadway, and that looked bombed out just a few short years ago. Don't forget that this used to be the roughest neighborhood on the North Side outside of Cabrini Green!

[aragx6]

Over a period of about five years, Reagan told the story of the "Chicago welfare queen" who had 80 names, 30 addresses, 12 Social Security cards, and collected benefits for "four nonexisting deceased husbands," bilking the government out of "over $150,000." The real welfare recipient to whom Reagan referred was actually convicted for using two different aliases to collect $8,000. Reagan continued to use his version of the story even after the press pointed out the actual facts of the case to him.

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by CarolinaBredChicagoan

Yeah, that's kinda the worst-of-both-worlds area of Uptown. Pretty boring and a touch ghetto. South of that is pretty interesting. That's Buena Park, though. North of that is pretty interesting, too, imho. Isn't Pensacola Place that area right by the big Jewel/Osco? As in, on top of the Jewel Osco?

But it's sure easy to shop at Jewel!