Does Chicago have a passenger ferry service (Manhattan, Brooklyn: sales, income)

[crbcrbrgv]

Originally Posted by CarolinaBredChicagoan

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Seriously?

I don't think that's true.

I do. I remember the comments I'd receive when I first started in City-data. My location of course says "Houston". I'd get a lot of "What does a dumb Texan know? I hope you never visit". This despite the fact that I was born and raised in Chicago. Of course, nobody ever bothered to ask.

[UnderTheLiveOaks]

Originally Posted by crbcrbrgv

I do. I remember the comments I'd receive when I first started in City-data. My location of course says "Houston". I'd get a lot of "What does a dumb Texan know? I hope you never visit". This despite the fact that I was born and raised in Chicago. Of course, nobody ever bothered to ask.

I think there's been a fair amount of Houston-Chicago bad blood spread around. That's probably the root of it. I've never gotten any more than good-natured ribbing for being from SC.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by crbcrbrgv

I think most of it has to do with her being from Texas. You aren't giving her the benefit of the doubt. If she were coming to Chicago from say Minnesota, it'd be a different story. Chicagoans look down at Texans.

I doubt Chicagoans are any more likely to put up with bitchy little shrews from Minnesota versus Texas.

[Basekamp]

We do actually. It's political though, so I wouldn't necessarily hold it against you personally.. You seem like a nice enough individual.

Originally Posted by CarolinaBredChicagoan

?

Seriously?

I don't think that's true.

[crbcrbrgv]

Here's one. Tell an average Chicagoan that Rice University is as good of a school as Notre Dame. Or that University of North Carolina is better than U of I. You'll get laughed out of the room. Chicago has a disdain towards the south in general. It's worse for Texas.

[UnderTheLiveOaks]

Originally Posted by Basekamp

We do actually. It's political though, so I wouldn't necessarily hold it against you personally.. You seem like a nice enough individual.

I don't take it personally. I take solace in the fact that I'm much, much smarter than you.



(Kidding.)

[Gelasia]

I don’t believe anyone has ever called me a bitchy little shrew before.
When I get to Chicago and someone doesn’t like me because I’m from Texas that would be slightly amusing to me.
Anyways, not everyone is going to like everyone. It happens.
Although I can truly say that, I love everyone.

[skipcromer]

Originally Posted by crbcrbrgv

Here's one. Tell an average Chicagoan that Rice University is as good of a school as Notre Dame. Or that University of North Carolina is better than U of I. You'll get laughed out of the room. Chicago has a disdain towards the south in general. It's worse for Texas.

I think you would hear the same thing if somebody said Wisconsin or Minnesota were better schools than Illinois. That has nothing to do with the south.

Its the same in Georgia, University of Georgia is the greatest University on Earth if your from Athens.

[prairiestate]

Originally Posted by Drover

A ferry from Chicago doesn't make a lot of sense because it's right near the bottom edge of the lake and it's just as easy to simply drive around. Notice the one ferry across the lake is strategically situated to cross at approximately the midpoint. (OK, a little south of the midpoint.) Anyone who lives south of Green Bay or north of Waukegan can drive to Milwaukee and hop the ferry. For everyone else, it's just as easy to drive around the lake.

It's easy to drive around the lake! I guess you've never tried it. Maybe at 2 am on Christmas, traffic through Northwest Indiana is at something slightly less then a standstill, but other then that...

[Basekamp]

It's not the South. I love the South. Except for Texas. You could be brilliant at Math or something and still from Texas, it just wouldn't be much different than an idiot savant.