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Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Dude who cares? Its just a stupid website with stupid people.
Chicago=/=New York City. People always compare Los Angeles to New York City too, and Los Angeles gets put down also a lot.
Its not just Chicago getting special treatment on this site, every city does. Here's an example:
Tucson=El Paso=Albuquerque
Cleveland=Detroit=Pittburgh
Houston=Atlanta=Dallas
Boston=Philadelphia
Like you said, every city is different and unique in its own way, then why does this happen? Because we have some cyber warriors on this site that think they're smart and know everything about the world. The examples listed above, no one living in those places or even with common knowledge would do that.
The logic on this website (with some people) = Frat Teens drunk driving
Simple answer is they are basically the two largest cities in terms of higher density urban environment and the largest skylines and employment center downtowns.
I honestly don't know. NY'ers who want to play one of their favorite pastimes? Chicagoans who want to huff and puff and gloat only to attract stupid people OUT FOR TEH LULZ ^__________________^! If you read really carefully few people really give a sh*t.
The hardcore ones who love comparing and contrasting cities love to compare the two, especially if they've never actually been to either city, because let's face it, most people on this forum are probably armchair philosophers without any real information or experience and only want to foist their uninformed opinions on everyone else.
Dude who cares? Its just a stupid website with stupid people.
Chicago=/=New York City. People always compare Los Angeles to New York City too, and Los Angeles gets put down also a lot.
Its not just Chicago getting special treatment on this site, every city does. Here's an example:
Tucson=El Paso=Albuquerque
Cleveland=Detroit=Pittburgh
Houston=Atlanta=Dallas
Boston=Philadelphia
Like you said, every city is different and unique in its own way, then why does this happen? Because we have some cyber warriors on this site that think they're smart and know everything about the world. The examples listed above, no one living in those places or even with common knowledge would do that.
The logic on this website (with some people) = Frat Teens drunk driving
This.
But I also think it's the skyline thing, no other city has skyscrapers like these 2. Plus they have other similarities. I know before this site I thought they were very similar because I've never been to Chicago so I saw similar architecture, different spins on the same foods, etc. and I assumed they were very similar, except Chicago being colder and less humid.
b/c its the 2nd closest city to compare it to skyline wise, also were historically 2 of the largest migration centers. Chicago was also the #2 growing city for almost 100 years but things have since changed and other places have caught up and grown faster, even if it is half nyc size metro wise, Chicago declined some while NYC continued to grow exponentially.
Chicago used to feel very similar to NYC. That's where those comparisons come from. Look at old photos of the two cities. They felt very similar.
Chicago then fell off the table by bringing in so many transplants and soft suburbanites who don't "Act Chicago," that the place now feels like some leftist petri dish, instead of the brash, confident, aggressive place Real Chicago was.
Now? Yeah, compare Chicago more to Seattle than NYC.
Chicago used to feel very similar to NYC. That's where those comparisons come from. Look at old photos of the two cities. They felt very similar.
Chicago then fell off the table by bringing in so many transplants and soft suburbanites who don't "Act Chicago," that the place now feels like some leftist petri dish, instead of the brash, confident, aggressive place Real Chicago was.
Now? Yeah, compare Chicago more to Seattle than NYC.
Cant the same be said for new york? It seems like trasplants/yuppies on live in a few neighborhoods in Chicago. I dont know too much about New York BUT from what i hear yuppie/transplants are moving to alot of places that were once horrible....
mas23
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