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View Poll Results: Do Chicagoans wish the city were located on the East Coast?
Yes 10 17.86%
No 46 82.14%
Voters: 56. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-15-2017, 05:37 AM
 
Location: South Florida
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Chicago would not be the same plopped somewhere else. Nobody that loves Chicago would wish this.
This!
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Old 08-15-2017, 06:14 AM
 
Location: Washington, DC
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Seems the OP cares about impressions too much. Is there really a shortage of Chicago media attention? I don't think so. Every thing about Chicago screams big-market. It does seem that many Chicagoans are insecure about it being cool or significant probably because many of them are first generation urban... look at me, I'm living in the city!

If Chicago were on the East Coast it would be like Baltimore or Philly, and I think less significant because Chicago is the king of the Midwest. It would be overshadowed by NYC and DC.
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Old 08-15-2017, 07:20 AM
 
Location: Where the heart is...
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Not to take away anything from our other Midwestern neighbors (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, etc.) but Chicago is the premier city in the entire Midwest.

The Crown Jewel of them all, bar none.
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Old 08-15-2017, 07:29 AM
 
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Seems the OP cares about impressions too much. Is there really a shortage of Chicago media attention? I don't think so. Every thing about Chicago screams big-market. It does seem that many Chicagoans are insecure about it being cool or significant probably because many of them are first generation urban... look at me, I'm living in the city!

If Chicago were on the East Coast it would be like Baltimore or Philly, and I think less significant because Chicago is the king of the Midwest. It would be overshadowed by NYC and DC.
I definitely don't think it would be overshadowed. In fact, it would offer another big city alternative to NYC. DC, Boston and Baltimore are geographically small. Philly is bigger but it doesn't give you the glamour that Chicago does. Imagine the Loop on the Atlantic Ocean.
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Old 08-15-2017, 07:41 AM
 
Location: South Florida
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The media coverage at least nationally always seems to center around both coasts, with Chicago being a distant third with regards to the coverage.
If Chicago were on the East Coast, what would be different about the city, and what would be different about the respective regions of the Midwest or Eastern Seaboard?

If it is a "no" is that because you prefer living in the Midwest region as a whole, or possibly even love the fact that Chicago dominates its region that much?
One of the main things people love about Chicago is the nice people.
It's definitely a big part of the city's charm.
If you moved it to the east coast.... well... ummm... I don't want to be rude.. but that aspect of the city would get lost/disappear...

As a rule, Midwestern people are pretty humble (another trait that would get lost if it Chicago was moved to the east coast). I've never heard someone from Chicago say that the city doesn't get enough coverage on the national news. Until I read this post, I wasn't aware it was a "thing". To be honest I don't keep tabs on what area of the country gets more/less news coverage.

Chicago's my favorite city (and I was raised a Cheesehead ) and I love it as it is/where it is.

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Old 08-15-2017, 07:46 AM
 
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Chicago *is* because it is in the Midwest.
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Old 08-15-2017, 07:50 AM
 
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I've never seen any validity to this "midwesterners are nice" platitude. Don't kid yourselves, people have the potential to suck here just as much as they do on the east coast.
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Old 08-15-2017, 08:15 AM
 
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I know what you mean. People are jerks and wonderful and everything in between no matter the region.


Hell, if anything I would even say that due to the massive amount of disinvestment and overall crime/hopelessness in so much of the Midwest and Rust Belt, the generalization that Midwesterners are, in fact, not nice is arguably more accurate.
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Old 08-15-2017, 08:45 AM
 
Location: That star on your map in the middle of the East Coast, DMV
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One of the main things people love about Chicago is the nice people.
It's definitely a big part of the city's charm.
If you moved it to the east coast.... well... ummm... I don't want to be rude.. but that aspect of the city would get lost/disappear...

As a rule, Midwestern people are pretty humble (another trait that would get lost if it Chicago was moved to the east coast). I've never heard someone from Chicago say that the city doesn't get enough coverage on the national news. Until I read this post, I wasn't aware it was a "thing". To be honest I don't keep tabs on what area of the country gets more/less news coverage.

Chicago's my favorite city (and I was raised a Cheesehead ) and I love it as it is/where it is.
Well I haven't been in a while, but do you mean to tell me that Chicagoans are noticeably that much nicer? I mean really there are no rude people in a city that big? I find that hard to believe.
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Old 08-15-2017, 09:16 AM
 
Location: South Florida
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really there are no rude people in a city that big? I find that hard to believe.
Nowhere in my post did I state there are no rude people in Chicago.
Nowhere in my post did I state that all people on the east coast are Aholes.
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