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[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by dementor

Maybe not, yet Chicago somehow manages to be the worst in all of them Mens.com, you got to be kidding me.....

New York is more segregated than Chicago by many accounts (though strangely not the Chicago Tribune's), and the public schools are nothing to be proud of. Chicago's corruption is ridiculous. There's no candy coating that. But otherwise, it's a great city that offers more than most other American cities. New York trumps Chicago on many things. The Bay Area offers another set of advantages, as does SoCal. But there are tangible advantages that Chicago has over those metros as well. Either way, if you want to trash a city, why not point fingers at truly character-less showy sprawl zones like Phoenix, Atlanta, and Houston? Or at true centers of urban decay like Detroit, Newark, and Youngstown? Chicago isn't perfect, but it's still one of the great American cities. Your arguments to the contrary make me believe you haven't really seen many urban areas in the United States.

[scoop89]

dementor, move back to Wisconsin if you don't like it here.

[dementor]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

New York is more segregated than Chicago by many accounts (though strangely not the Chicago Tribune's), and the public schools are nothing to be proud of. Chicago's corruption is ridiculous. There's no candy coating that. But otherwise, it's a great city that offers more than most other American cities. New York trumps Chicago on many things. The Bay Area offers another set of advantages, as does SoCal. But there are tangible advantages that Chicago has over those metros as well. Either way, if you want to trash a city, why not point fingers at truly character-less showy sprawl zones like Phoenix, Atlanta, and Houston? Or at true centers of urban decay like Detroit, Newark, and Youngstown? Chicago isn't perfect, but it's still one of the great American cities. Your arguments to the contrary make me believe you haven't really seen many urban areas in the United States.

A, you mean let's gang up on Phoenix, Houston or poor Detroit?

Why would I do that? I never hear any pompous claims from people in Detroit and I actually sympathize with them. It's hard to make fun of Detroit. It would actully be in very bad taste to make fun of Detroit.
Chicago on the other hand is so obnoxious yet so full of insecurities and resentment that making fun of it is simply something that I can't resist.
By the way despite all this pompous talk and existance of a few truly world-class restaurants in Chicago (there are some, yes) most of the food here is an example of tasteless greasy country food. Ubelievable what happens when people think that if it is filling it has to be good.

[nJohn]

Originally Posted by dementor

A, you mean let's gang up on Phoenix, Houston or poor Detroit?

Why would I do that? I never hear any pompous claims from people in Detroit and I actually sympathize with them. It's hard to make fun of Detroit. It would actully be in very bad taste to make fun of Detroit.
Chicago on the other hand is so obnoxious yet so full of insecurities and resentment that making fun of it is simply something that I can't resist.
By the way despite all this pompous talk and existance of a few truly world-class restaurants in Chicago (there are some, yes) most of the food here is an example of tasteless greasy country food. Ubelievable what happens when people think that if it is filling it has to be good.

"Chicago - mudhole in a prairie . . .," and what city is not considered a mudhole in the midwest?

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by dementor

It's hard to make fun of Detroit.

There's a difference between "making fun" and criticism.

Don't talk about food. You only make a fool out of yourself with your lack of knowledge.