Do you hate people from Milwaukee (Chicago, North Chicago: crime, school, to live in)

[Tex?Il?]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

Not true at all. Having lived in Milwaukee for a few years, I can tell you that attitudes are VERY different there. Chicago is much more fast-paced, direct, cosmopolitain, and heavily marketed to. What professional Chicagoan do you know that has never met a vegetarian? Give me a break.

If Chicago is a rust belt town, then so is New York. Both cities once had large manufacturing economies and are surrounded by rusting post-industrial abandonment, and both cities have moved on and become more diversified economies. If you actually look at the percentage of people in Chicago employed in the manufacturing sector, it is lower than the national average. New York is definitely more of center for finance and culture, but otherwise the economies are relatively similar.

Have you ever been to Staten Island? The Bronx? Yonkers? The Jersey Meadowlands? Metro New York is packed with areas that resemble the South Side and south suburbs. Newark is just as bad as Gary, etc. etc. etc.

Now, if you wan to talk about the popular imagination, Chicago may be seen as a rust belt city by people who don't know better. But the popular imagination doesn't always match reality.

But New York has been like that for a lot longer, right?

Chicago, and I could wrong and I know I'm VASTLY generalizing, is only a generation removed from the factories. East coast cities have a much more long established "elite" if you will.

[oakparkdude]

BTW, how many other corporate relocations to the Loop have occurred recently. The big ones, off the top of my head, including Boeing (from Seattle), United Airlines (from Elk Grove Village), BP (from Naperville/Warrenville), and now Miller SAB (over Dallas). I'm sure there's others that I'm forgetting. That's quite a string of high profile successes.

It shows that a CBD with a relatively high-tax structure (but good transit) can still compete with suburbia/sunbelt.

[Tex?Il?]

Alright I confess.

I teach community college, and I really don't like it when some jock student of mine skips class and goes to a Cubs game and then complains that hes not getting the grade he wants.

It gets on my nerves and I feel better and superior if I put down rapid sports fans, who aren't into college education so much.

I know its bad, but its out there now.

[oakparkdude]

Originally Posted by Tex?Il?

But New York has been like that for a lot longer, right?

Chicago, and I could wrong and I know I'm VASTLY generalizing, is only a generation removed from the factories. East coast cities have a much more long established "elite" if you will.

Yes, you are wrong and vastly generalizing. Do you think NYC, Philly, Baltimore, and Boston were post-industrial playgrounds for college-educated infotech professionals in the 1950s while Chicago was still a steel town?

[Tex?Il?]

I'm in a coed softball league, and I'm still not that good.

I can't catch very well, and I don't hit the ball very far.

I feel like I'm not looked upon as cool by the women on the team.

My confidence is boosted in other situations. But still, I know it sounds lame and immature, but I can find a way to elevate myself above huge sports such as thinking of them as "less educated." I can feel better about myself.

I have other things that give me confidence: my music, my outdoor activities I do in a club I'm part of it.

But this is where some of my posts of trash talking toward sports fans comes from.

There I got it off my chest.

[chicagoland_hell]

Milwaukee is a fine city,just like any ol cities here in the midwest including chicago

the guy was right,take 8 attractions out of chicago and its basically the same.

i grew up in the northern burbs of the chi

i hate living in the midwest ...its so bland

[CarolinaBredChicagoan]

Originally Posted by chicagoland_hell

Milwaukee is a fine city,just like any ol cities here in the midwest including chicago

the guy was right,take 8 attractions out of chicago and its basically the same.

i grew up in the northern burbs of the chi

i hate living in the midwest ...its so bland

So cowgirl up and move away, sally.

Are you unable to live alone without regular diaper changes?

Can we get a new lock for these doors? The trolls keep getting in.

[sharkylittleton]

Originally Posted by chicagoland_hell

Milwaukee is a fine city,just like any ol cities here in the midwest including chicago

the guy was right,take 8 attractions out of chicago and its basically the same.

i grew up in the northern burbs of the chi

i hate living in the midwest ...its so bland

Oh great, not another keyboard jockey.

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by chicagoland_hell

Milwaukee is a fine city,just like any ol cities here in the midwest including chicago

the guy was right,take 8 attractions out of chicago and its basically the same.

i grew up in the northern burbs of the chi

i hate living in the midwest ...its so bland

Let me guess... You went to a club, talked to some women, and nearly got thrown out--and now you hate Chicago. Triton01, is that you again?

[sscherr]

Originally Posted by chicagoland_hell

Milwaukee is a fine city,just like any ol cities here in the midwest including chicago

the guy was right,take 8 attractions out of chicago and its basically the same.

i grew up in the northern burbs of the chi

i hate living in the midwest ...its so bland

Crazy how your from NYC and its "home" but you grew up in the northern burbs of chi...