Why do Chicagoans look down on people from the suburbs? (house, private school tuition)

[Alacran]

I used to do it. But now that I've been in the suburbs for a while.... it doesn't really matter.
You can live on the other side of Austin ave "Chicago" people will look down like you have no idea what the Chicago culture is about.

Quite annoying.

[IrishIllini]

This is not universally true. I prefer the city to the suburbs, but I was raised in the suburbs and have no real issue with them.

[prhill]

I hated living in the burbs, but I have never known anyone who looks down on them except for that one talk show radio host that used to refer to them as Lawnheads.

[Dad01]

who cares
Id rather live in the country than either burbs or the city unless ofcourse I'm insanely rich or have a sugar mama who lives in the city

[JTE1969]

After being homeless and hanging around various places, I find the suburbs nice, too, and quite a change from living in Wicker Park.

Oh, I shouldn't say "homeless..." Rather I live in a "Makeshift RV!" And I got a 3 story house worth's of possessions!

[flamadiddle]

I dunno, maybe because in the burbs we do not have to pay high taxes in addition to private school tuition?

[probablyimnotsure]

Because they have more money and are superior.

[Chicago60614]

This is typical of any urban place compared to any suburban place, nothing really unique about Chicago. I think urban dwellers think of themselves as putting up with more, able to handle more, access to more, more culture, they're more "awake" in that sense.

[chet everett]

Originally Posted by Chicago60614

This is typical of any urban place compared to any suburban place, nothing really unique about Chicago. I think urban dwellers think of themselves as putting up with more, able to handle more, access to more, more culture, they're more "awake" in that sense.

The majority of posters on the Chicago forum either grew up in far away places or moved from the suburbs to the city. They may say they have "no real issue" with where they came from but their biases are readily apparent.

Most such folks did not participate in any of the nicer cultural offerings that smaller cities and suburbs offer nor do they partake in many of the offerings available in Chicago. They did not appreciate the simple things like flowers that bloom or birds that sing. They associated those things with normalcy and blandness and that motivated them to move someplace "more exciting". The false belief that they could find that fulfilling is utterly counter to reality. That lack of connection fosters a kind of existential hollowness and inability to appreciate the real reasons for being -- instead of forming deeper bonds to others they drift from pathetic beer soaked experiences in college to similar sad efforts to recreate such "fun" in ever more hip night spots, some of which ironically play up their sad "dive bar" themes.

Eventually a fair number do come to realize there are better ways to get on with their life, but for those that cling to the fake fun there are plenty more in the same herd in the city than in the suburbs ...

[Razza94]

Originally Posted by Chicago60614

This is typical of any urban place compared to any suburban place, nothing really unique about Chicago. I think urban dwellers think of themselves as putting up with more, able to handle more, access to more, more culture, they're more "awake" in that sense.

If anything, people in major cities such as Chicago are some of the least "awake" people in human history. Mindless zombies drifting through a monotonous 9 to 5 existence. Completely removed from nature and the wider workings of the world.