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Old 10-30-2009, 03:27 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Logic 101

When a nation is in decline, its cities are in decline
The United States is a nation in decline (like....BIG TIME!)
Chicago is a city in the United States
Therefore, Chicago is in decline

So please, when you are sharing with me The Decline of ________: The City that Doesn't Work, be advised:

Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, New Orleans, Cleveland, Cincinnati Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Denver, Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle...

can all fill in the blank
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Old 10-30-2009, 04:04 PM
 
Location: Wicker Park, Chicago
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You guy haven't lived in Houston, and it's way better than Chicago! More large malls and they're bigger! 3 Fry's vs 1 in Chicago! More fast food selection! Cheaper rent and housing, I could have bought a condo for $38,000! But higher electricity and insurance rates. NO cold winters!
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Old 10-30-2009, 04:14 PM
 
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You guy haven't lived in Houston, and it's way better than Chicago! More large malls and they're bigger! 3 Fry's vs 1 in Chicago! More fast food selection! Cheaper rent and housing, I could have bought a condo for $38,000! But higher electricity and insurance rates. NO cold winters!
Id like to see a pic of your 38,000 dollar condo.

And do you mean mommy and daddy could have bought you a 38,000 dollar condo?
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Old 10-30-2009, 04:31 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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This post could have been here:

Chicago's decline
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Old 10-30-2009, 04:37 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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You guy haven't lived in Houston, and it's way better than Chicago! More large malls and they're bigger! 3 Fry's vs 1 in Chicago! More fast food selection! Cheaper rent and housing, I could have bought a condo for $38,000! But higher electricity and insurance rates. NO cold winters!
"More large malls and they're bigger! "

"More fast food selection!"

Paris, eat your heart out.

I'm green and drooling with envy. What every city should have. What a country.
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Old 10-30-2009, 05:59 PM
 
Location: Wicker Park, Chicago
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Id like to see a pic of your 38,000 dollar condo.

And do you mean mommy and daddy could have bought you a 38,000 dollar condo?
I was gonna buy a condo from my own $68,000 / year job in this complex. Here's another condo example in the same complex for $19950!

Cheap place to live in a nice area. Just make sure the walls are sealed so no cockroaches wander into these condos!

1 Bedroom, 1 Bath (http://houston.craigslist.org/reo/1441429969.html - broken link)
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Old 10-30-2009, 06:04 PM
 
Location: roaming gnome
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gotta disagree, for what it offers Chicago is a good bang for your buck kind of place, probably the best for urban living in a big city along with Philadelphia, I knew several people making sub 50k and easily able to enjoy the city.

These were kind of glaring...

"Chicago has a few major hedge funds but nothing like New York City or London. Chicago is the futures capital of America with the merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade but even here the news isn’t all positive. "

Of course it isn't like NYC or London, nothing else is either... DOH.

Then it is #1, and also buys out NYMEX (in New York, but is nothing like New York) which it didn't mention, but that isn't positive...it is also not only the futures capital of America, but of the world... Humm...

Last edited by grapico; 10-30-2009 at 06:13 PM..
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Old 10-30-2009, 06:05 PM
 
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I was gonna buy a condo from my own $68,000 / year job in this complex. Here's another condo example in the same complex for $19950!

Cheap place to live in a nice area. Just make sure the walls are sealed so no cockroaches wander into these condos!

1 Bedroom, 1 Bath (http://houston.craigslist.org/reo/1441429969.html - broken link)
Nope, im callin B.S.
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Old 10-30-2009, 06:19 PM
 
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gotta disagree, for what it offers Chicago is a good bang for your buck kind of place, probably the best for urban living in a big city along with Philadelphia, I knew several people making sub 50k and easily able to enjoy the city.
I have to agree with your ideas about Philadelphia. That is a great city that is underappreciated.
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Old 10-30-2009, 06:53 PM
 
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I have to agree with your ideas about Philadelphia. That is a great city that is underappreciated.
Also, it's much warmer. There's a noticeable climate difference.
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