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View Poll Results: Best architecture
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New York City
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87 |
47.03% |
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Chicago
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98 |
52.97% |
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05-11-2009, 10:37 PM
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Location: Chicago- Lawrence and Kedzie/Maywood
2,244 posts, read 3,339,967 times
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lookout Kid
I take it you haven't seen Chicago's subways... Though they have redone several stations to look like McDonald's franchises.
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Lawlz, it's true.
It won't last.
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05-11-2009, 10:43 PM
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1,024 posts, read 1,372,705 times
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Chicago.
New York is more vibrant, but Chicago has better architecture.
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05-11-2009, 10:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Kamakazi
New York is the ugliest city I've ever seen. Trash on the ground, dirty buildings, nasty subways, yuck. I'll take Chicago anyday.
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LOL....I am pretty sure you've never been to New York.... Chicago trains were the worst I've ever seen.
Chicago looks like downtown Houston.
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05-11-2009, 10:48 PM
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Location: The great, formidable City of Chicago, Illinois
8,669 posts, read 13,693,072 times
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Originally Posted by Americanboy
Chicago looks like downtown Houston.
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No. It really doesn't. Not even a little bit.
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05-11-2009, 10:50 PM
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Location: The great, formidable City of Chicago, Illinois
8,669 posts, read 13,693,072 times
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Americanboy
Chicago trains were the worst I've ever seen.
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The trains look like what you'd find in most well-worn transit systems in the U.S. It's the stations and tracks that are the problem in Chicago.
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05-11-2009, 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Lookout Kid
No. It really doesn't. Not even a little bit.
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Most of Downtown Houston is crappy but most of Chicago looks uglier and more run down.
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05-11-2009, 10:53 PM
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Location: Los Angeles
34 posts, read 4,084 times
Reputation: 14
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Americanboy
LOL....I am pretty sure you've never been to New York.... Chicago trains were the worst I've ever seen.
Chicago looks like downtown Houston.
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Look in the "Dirtiest cleanist city" thread here on city vs city
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05-11-2009, 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Kamakazi
Look in the "Dirtiest cleanist city" thread here on city vs city
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I knew it. Just Like I said, you've never step foot n NYC but you're basing your opinion on a picture.
I can find just as worse pics of Chicago.
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05-11-2009, 10:57 PM
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1,457 posts, read 1,356,508 times
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Americanboy
Most of Downtown Houston is crappy but most of Chicago looks uglier and more run down.
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Your bias isn't showing one little bit. Chicago is not ugly.
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05-11-2009, 11:01 PM
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Location: Los Angeles
34 posts, read 4,084 times
Reputation: 14
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So what people on this forum always rate cities on pictures seen on the net. Plus a picture is worth a thousand words. There the closes thing that shows how a city really looks.
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