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Sure, we believe you. Yet Chicago posters can't stop mentioning NYC.
I hate to say it but it does seem like some of the Chicago posters on this forum have a superiority complex in a way that they always have to top New York City in every thread to justify there insecurities. THERE I SAID IT! Now watch every Chicago poster attack me.
I hate to say it but it does seem like some of the Chicago posters on this forum have a superiority complex in a way that they always have to top New York City in every thread to justify there insecurities. THERE I SAID IT! Now watch every Chicago poster attack me.
Don't you mean inferiority complex but yeah us Chicagoans don't really care what happens in NYC. I respect NY and other cities but I don't look up to them either. Most people I know feel the same way.
When it comes to the respective cores of each metro, Center City Philadelphia IS impressive - but Chicago simply blows it totally out of the water, particularly when it comes to retail offerings.
Downtown Chicago is THE shopping mecca of its entire region. The huge majority of the Philadelphia areas retail offerings have been relegated to suburban King of Prussia, in a completely different County. There simply is no comparison in that particular category.
When it comes to the respective cores of each metro, Center City Philadelphia IS impressive - but Chicago simply blows it totally out of the water, particularly when it comes to retail offerings.
Downtown Chicago is THE shopping mecca of its entire region. The huge majority of the Philadelphia areas retail offerings have been relegated to suburban King of Prussia, in a completely different County. There simply is no comparison in that particular category.
Oh, really? Now why the hell would Philly's shopping mecca be way out in a different county?
Chicago has a completely different relationship with its suburbs than Philadelphia, doesn't it? Chicago suburbs have everything from predominately black ghettos (Harvey) to middle class majority-black towns (Matteson) to Hispanic enclaves (Cicero) to liberal "racially integrated" areas (Oak Park) to places of incredible wealth and prestige (Winnetka) to more stereotypical suburbia (Arlington Heights). What are Philly suburbs? Just a bunch of middle class, moderately conservative, white areas, mostly.
Oh, and Chicago suburbanites across the board have great pride in their city. Philadelphia suburbanites are afraid to go to their city.
Chicago has a completely different relationship with its suburbs than Philadelphia, doesn't it? Chicago suburbs have everything from predominately black ghettos (Harvey) to middle class majority-black towns (Matteson) to Hispanic enclaves (Cicero) to liberal "racially integrated" areas (Oak Park) to places of incredible wealth and prestige (Winnetka) to more stereotypical suburbia (Arlington Heights). What are Philly suburbs? Just a bunch of middle class, moderately conservative, white areas, mostly.
Oh, and Chicago suburbanites across the board have great pride in their city. Philadelphia suburbanites are afraid to go to their city.
Would it make you feel better if we said chicago is just like NYC. What you have said about Philadelphia is untrue, but if it makes you feel better then go for it.
Oh, really? Now why the hell would Philly's shopping mecca be way out in a different county?
Chicago has a completely different relationship with its suburbs than Philadelphia, doesn't it? Chicago suburbs have everything from predominately black ghettos (Harvey) to middle class majority-black towns (Matteson) to Hispanic enclaves (Cicero) to liberal "racially integrated" areas (Oak Park) to places of incredible wealth and prestige (Winnetka) to more stereotypical suburbia (Arlington Heights). What are Philly suburbs? Just a bunch of middle class, moderately conservative, white areas, mostly.
Oh, and Chicago suburbanites across the board have great pride in their city. Philadelphia suburbanites are afraid to go to their city.
Are you confused? I am making the claim that Downtown Chicago blows Center City Philadelphia out of the water when it comes to shopping. What part of my post did you not understand?
ALL of Philadelphia's upscale Department Stores are outside of the City, in a suburban County. This is obviously NOT the case when it comes to Chicago. They WISH they had anything remotely similar to Watertower Place, 900 Michigan, the Shops at Northbridge, Chicago Place, etc.
Would it make you feel better if we said chicago is just like NYC. What you have said about Philadelphia is untrue, but if it makes you feel better then go for it.
This comical myth that certain insecure Northeasterners love to perpetuate of Chicago secretly wishing to be New York is really beyond laughable. Chicago as a City and region are pretty damn secure with what they are in the real world.
And New York is NOT the topic of this thread - Philly is. BUT, I can certainly understand how you may feel the need to use New York as a crutch in this comparison.
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Yet Chicago posters can't stop mentioning NYC.
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