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Chicago 99 45.21%
Mexico City 72 32.88%
Toronto 48 21.92%
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Old 11-23-2012, 08:39 PM
 
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Toronto is no match for those cities. Mexico city is the best. Chicago is also another world class city.
Yeah, you're right....

Toronto is no match....it's way better
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Old 11-23-2012, 09:51 PM
 
Location: Pasadena, CA
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Yeah, you're right....

Toronto is no match....it's way better
The diversity, safety, and cosmopolitan flair of Toronto is impressive. These are three excellent cities.
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Old 12-01-2012, 03:12 PM
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Google maps...trumping facts since 2000-never.

Toronto vs Chicago (weighted density):

Toronto: 20,124 ppsm (2.615 million)
Chicago: 19,826 ppsm (2.703 million)

Two cities virtually even in size and density (standard and weighted). Chicago has PLENTY of single-family homes within city limits too, with wide boulevards and detached housing. Feel free to put your google toy away.
Because Toronto suburbs are denser and the city proper takes up more of the metro area, by weighted density the Toronto metro is denser.

Toronto: 14,853 ppsm
Chicago: 10,270 ppsm
Mexico City: 30,000 ppsm (?)

Per capita income of Chicago is $27k / year. For Mexico City proper, the per capita income is $19k / year. The surrounding suburbs (in the state of Mexico) are far poorer with a per capita income of $6k / year below the national average of $10k /year while Chicago suburbs are somewhat higher than the city proper but with nowhere as extreme a gap.
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Old 12-01-2012, 03:20 PM
 
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Chicago
(Gap)
Toronto

(Huge

freakin'

blackholish

gap)

Mexico City
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Old 12-01-2012, 03:23 PM
 
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I highly doubt you can trust the crime statistics coming out of Mexico City, you can barely trust the data coming out of Chicago.
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Old 12-01-2012, 03:28 PM
 
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Chicago
(Gap)
Toronto

(Huge

freakin'

blackholish

gap)

Mexico City
Get real. MC swallows both cities whole without chewing. You underrate it simple because it isn't in 'Merica or Asia.
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Old 12-01-2012, 03:31 PM
 
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Get real. MC swallows both cities whole without chewing.
It was for where I'd like to live.

My bad yo, you'z must've thought I was taking a swing at the criterion.

I'll send the transcript of my next move out to you- so you could do your god father like chin stroke & then stamp the paper as either approved or denied for where I'd like to live.

I don't think I'd like to live in Mexico to be honest. Nothing wrong with the country but you know, I don't speak Espanol fluently nor do I want to live in Mexico City. A little too, ehhh, foreign for me.

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Old 12-01-2012, 03:38 PM
 
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It was for where I'd like to live.

My bad man, I'll send the transcript of my next move out to you- so you could do your god father like chin stroke & then stamp the paper as either approved or denied for where I'd like to live.

I don't think I'd like to live in Mexico to be honest. Nothing wrong with the country but you know, I don't speak Espanol fluently nor do I want to live in Mexico City.
That's different. You can live wherever you want, you have my approval . This thread is asking for a direct comparison between these three cities though, not where you'd prefer to live. I would probably stay in the states too, given the chance.
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Old 12-01-2012, 07:02 PM
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shopping

Mexico City even has Office Max downtown:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Mexic...301.64,,0,1.07

Office Max has closed in Chicago. You get Staples:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=stapl...,50.88,,0,-4.9

Ditto with Toronto. Staples:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=stapl...07.85,,0,-18.6
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Old 12-01-2012, 09:27 PM
 
Location: chicago
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Honestly, I only voted for Chicago because i live there But I think Chicago is better in architecture and public transport. Toronto is probably overall better because it's safer and it's in Canada(one of the best countries in the world, way better than USA IMO)
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