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04-10-2009, 11:08 PM
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Location: Chicago
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Originally Posted by j33
Frozen pigeons falling from the sky? Now I've heard everything.
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No kidding. Pigeons thrive in much harsher climates than Chicago.
Also, gotta love the irony of a Bostonian telling Chicagoans to get over NYC.
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04-11-2009, 12:33 AM
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Location: Metro Detroit Area, Michigan
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Not even close. Many of the College grads in Michigan top education schools (MSU, UofM, CMU) have or are moving to Chicago instead of Detroit. Chicago has the carrer jobs, which means it's not a dying city unlike Detroit which does not have carrer oreinted jobs. The biggest employer at the last job fair I went to in Detroit was Speedway Gas Station hiring clerks.
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04-11-2009, 12:44 AM
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Location: Oahu
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Originally Posted by northEnd
On average, Boston has 1 day per year where the temperature is below zero. I have lived in the midwest, and seen pigeons fall from the sky and freeze to death on the ground because the air temperature is cold.
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LMAO
Off to the ignore list with the others!
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04-11-2009, 10:29 AM
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Location: Villanova Pa.
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Originally Posted by ChicagoJack
Detroit used to be the 4th largest city in the country. Was for many years. Now even the dead are moving out of Detroit! You know things are bad when the dead start leaving because the dead don't much care where they live.
[url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402241,00.html]FOXNews.com - Report: Suburban Families Moving Dead Relatives From Detroit Cemeteries
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^Sadly humorous.Thats the ultimate indignity to Detroit.
Chicago has as much downtown office space as SF,Boston and Philadlephia combined. The next Detroit? NO!
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04-11-2009, 04:05 PM
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Location: roaming gnome
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Originally Posted by sukwoo
You live in Boston and you're complaining about Chicago weather? The average monthly temperatures are almost identical!
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wind
chill
factor
and actual LOWS.
Chicago fluctuates a lot more, it could be 60 in January and -25 as well...
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04-11-2009, 10:20 PM
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lake placid
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Originally Posted by DeaconJ
I highly doubt that a "dying city" would be among the 4 finalists for the 2016 Olympics. The IOC doesn't normally consider "dying" as a positive quality for a host city.
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Lake Placid, NY has held olympic games - that hardly makes for some kind of credentialing of a city
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04-11-2009, 10:36 PM
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Originally Posted by rainrock
Chicago has as much downtown office space as SF,Boston and Philadlephia combined. The next Detroit? NO!
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And it's going vacant!
" What looked like the worst possible case a few weeks ago for Chicago now appears to be the most likely outcome, said Bill Rogers, a managing director at Jones Lang LaSalle, a real estate broker. The vacancy rate, which was fairly stable at 10 percent, is now rising quickly and could hit 17 percent in 2009, he said. “A lot of companies are trying to shed excess space ahead of what is expected to be a worse market in 2009,” Mr. Rogers said."
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04-11-2009, 10:41 PM
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Location: Oak Park, IL
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Originally Posted by northEnd
And it's going vacant!
" What looked like the worst possible case a few weeks ago for Chicago now appears to be the most likely outcome, said Bill Rogers, a managing director at Jones Lang LaSalle, a real estate broker. The vacancy rate, which was fairly stable at 10 percent, is now rising quickly and could hit 17 percent in 2009, he said. “A lot of companies are trying to shed excess space ahead of what is expected to be a worse market in 2009,” Mr. Rogers said." |
Oh that's right. No other city besides Chicago is experiencing increased vacancy rates.
Greater Boston vacancy rates spiked in Q1 - Boston Business Journal:
Greater Boston vacancy rates spiked in Q1
The office vacancy rate in Greater Boston increased one percentage point to 14.4 percent in the first quarter of this year from 13.4 percent the previous quarter, according to the Boston real estate firm Richards Barry Joyce & Partners LLC.
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04-11-2009, 10:42 PM
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Location: Chicago
763 posts, read 848,715 times
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Originally Posted by northEnd
And it's going vacant!
" What looked like the worst possible case a few weeks ago for Chicago now appears to be the most likely outcome, said Bill Rogers, a managing director at Jones Lang LaSalle, a real estate broker. The vacancy rate, which was fairly stable at 10 percent, is now rising quickly and could hit 17 percent in 2009, he said. “A lot of companies are trying to shed excess space ahead of what is expected to be a worse market in 2009,” Mr. Rogers said." |
No **** in the worst recession in the past few generations? Ya don't say. How's Downtown Crossing doing? Looks like a bustling shopping district to me.
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04-11-2009, 10:44 PM
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100 posts, read 141,621 times
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Originally Posted by j33
Frozen pigeons falling from the sky? Now I've heard everything.
... sadly, this is not true. I'm fairly certain after the apocalypse, only pigeons and cockroaches will remain.
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Apparently the blood freezes in their wings at about -22F. Seen it with my own eyes, as well as steam coming off of Lake Michigan.
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