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I've always thought that while Chicago city is very interesting and vibey from all the pics and vids I see, the suburbs are sometimes more so in their own way. Maybe it's the Molly Ringwald/John Hughes fan in me. But I've always wanted to hang out in Chicagoland, with or without Chicago.
It's a little crazy because there are 135 separate suburbs smashed together, and with the 242 metra stations there are dozens of suburbs with their cute little downtowns centered around their train stations.
This tread is a little unfair to cities that Annexed, of course Boston, SF, DC, Etc are going to be better than Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Chicago because so little of the metro is actually in the former cities while the latter contain much more of their metro just based of physical size alone.
Like I'm not sure if Lowell is outside a 600sq mile Boston.
The NYC area without the five boroughs kind of makes me think of the Bay Area.
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Originally Posted by Native Transplant
I've always thought that while Chicago city is very interesting and vibey from all the pics and vids I see, the suburbs are sometimes more so in their own way. Maybe it's the Molly Ringwald/John Hughes fan in me. But I've always wanted to hang out in Chicagoland, with or without Chicago.
I agree - I don't think they have the touristy appeal of (say) LA suburbs, but there are many, many of them that are not sprawling and have their own little old downtowns. Some of the villages in Lake County and along the North Shore are very picturesque. The satellite cities (Joliet, Aurora, Elgin, Waukegan) also have a Rust Belt-y grit and old urbanism that I at least find pleasing.
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