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Originally Posted by killakoolaide
Who would want to live in Chicago? The majority of the people who live there, probably just do so because they are too poor to escape its grip. It's cold, isolated, violent, and segregated.
Lol. Quite the uninformed post. Philadelphia has more poverty than Chicago, and it has the same violence problems. To say that the majority of people living in Chicago do so because they are too poor to leave is just laughable. It's an extremely desirable place to live for many people. I have nothing against Philly. It's a great city and I have lots of friends who I visit there. But to say Chicago is so terrible compared to it is just ridiculous.
Who would want to live in Chicago? The majority of the people who live there, probably just do so because they are too poor to escape its grip. It's cold, isolated, violent, and segregated.
Don't you even get tired or making ignorant, uninformed statments about Chicago? Plus, who are you? Warren Buffet or something? You're probably just another working class ******* trying to earn a living like most other people in this country.
I agree. I'm not going to bash anything here because I legitimately think Philadelphia is a pretty cool city but someone from there complaining about the cold, poverty, crime, & segregation in Chicago?
By poverty rate Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Houston, & Miami are really all comparable. None of them can brag about that, because they all need to work on getting it lower than what it already is. None can say to another that poverty doesn't exist where they are.
Poverty Rate:
- Detroit, 33.3% in poverty
- Cleveland, 30.5% in poverty
- Buffalo, 30.3% in poverty
- Newark, 26.1% in poverty
- Miami, 25.6% in poverty
- Fresno, 25.5% in poverty
- Cincinnati, 25.1% in poverty
- Toledo, 24.7% in poverty
- El Paso, 24.3% in poverty
- Philadelphia, 24.1% in poverty
- Milwaukee, 23.4% in poverty
- Memphis, 23.1% in poverty
- St. Louis, 22.9% in poverty
- Dallas, 22.6% in poverty
- New Orleans, 22.6% in poverty
- Atlanta, 22.4% in poverty
- Stockton, Calif., 21.6% in poverty
- Minneapolis, 21.3% in poverty
- Pittsburgh, 21.2% in poverty
- Tucson, 20.9% in poverty
- Chicago, 20.6% in poverty
- Columbus, Ohio, 20.1% in poverty
- Long Beach, Calif., 19.8% in poverty
- Houston, 19.5% in poverty
- Los Angeles, 19.4% in poverty
Here are the homicides and rates for 2010:
In terms of segregation, Chicago is segregated and calling it out is rightfully so but so are New York, Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington DC, & basically everything else in the Northeast & Midwest. They're all comparable in terms of segregation.
I'm not going to rag on any city here, but its kind of contradictory to say Chicago has all these problems (which it does) and try to make it seem like other cities don't when the reality of it all is, Detroit, Washington DC, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, & Philadelphia have all these problems also. (Los Angeles & Houston minus the cold part).
Case closed. There are two types of people on this site, those that go by facts and those that go by fiction. You are in the former group while 'Killer Kool-Aid' or whatever his name is belongs firmly in the latter group.
It makes me laugh when people say that Chicago is so "isolated" yet time and time again they fail to realize that It became a major city BECAUSE OF ITS LOCATION. LOL
How is Chicago isolated? Not only is it a metro area approaching 10 million people, but it is completely surrounded by all types of small to mid to large cities. It lies within one of the most dense parts of the country.
By that standard, there really is only two cities that are not isolated.. That said, no way in hell is Chicago isolated.
Wow, so they overstimated Houston's population by 150,000 as well? Strange.
That is surprising.
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