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View Poll Results: which city is better don't be bias
Los angeles 27 36.99%
chicago 46 63.01%
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Old 03-12-2011, 09:10 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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business makes chicago a better city than LA. Im sure u can come up with something better than that. business must not be booming in chicago if their population dropped by 200k.
You said important.
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Old 03-12-2011, 09:31 PM
 
Location: Baltimore
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You said important.
If it that important it wouldn't be such a large exodus leaving.
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Old 03-12-2011, 09:39 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Are the business leaving? Downtown still looks plenty busy to me.
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Old 03-12-2011, 09:41 PM
 
Location: Baltimore
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Are the business leaving? Downtown still looks plenty busy to me.
Downtown wont have any business without anybody to do business with.
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Old 03-12-2011, 09:54 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Downtown wont have any business without anybody to do business with.
There are still 10 million people in the metropolitan area to do business with. We here in Chicago have the rudimentary critical thinking skills to understand that you don't have to live in a given municipality's borders to do business there.
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Old 03-12-2011, 09:59 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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And the metro grew.
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Old 03-12-2011, 10:27 PM
 
Location: Baltimore
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There are still 10 million people in the metropolitan area to do business with. We here in Chicago have the rudimentary critical thinking skills to understand that you don't have to live in a given municipality's borders to do business there.
so now my question is why are so many people leaving chicago.
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Old 03-12-2011, 10:27 PM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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business makes chicago a better city than LA. Im sure u can come up with something better than that. business must not be booming in chicago if their population dropped by 200k.
You mean the 200,000 that the census has said they purposely didn't go to several neighborhoods?
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Old 03-12-2011, 10:31 PM
 
Location: Baltimore
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You mean the 200,000 that the census has said they purposely didn't go to several neighborhoods?
and u dont think there are neighborhoods in every city that the census purposely didnt go to??
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Old 03-13-2011, 12:12 AM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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and u dont think there are neighborhoods in every city that the census purposely didnt go to??
Not nearly at the same level, and that's not the point of your argument.
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