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Old 09-16-2011, 11:39 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH USA / formerly Chicago for 20 years
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When I lived there, everyone seemed to be from either Illinois or a surrounding state. Excluding immigrants. You would think there would be more people from all the country given the population, but there are not. Very small percent of residents from all over the country, compared to Dallas, or even Tampa. Probably the weather, no one wants to pay that much to live in Siberia 8 months out of the year.
Dallas just had 70+ days of 100+ degree heat this summer, breaking an all-time record. Sounds like pure hell to me. Give me "Siberia" any day.
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Old 09-17-2011, 06:20 AM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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There is this interesting phenomenon in Chicago, lots of immigrants end up there, but very few people from other parts of the country, excluding midwest/great lakes region.

I know many people that are transplants from Mississippi, western Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana.
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Old 09-17-2011, 07:24 AM
 
Location: Schaumburg, please don't hate me for it.
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Dallas just had 70+ days of 100+ degree heat this summer, breaking an all-time record. Sounds like pure hell to me. Give me "Siberia" any day.

General Phil Sheridan once said that if he owned hell and Texas, he would live in hell and rent out Texas. He wasn't very fond of the heat and dust that permeated that state
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Old 09-17-2011, 07:56 AM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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General Phil Sheridan once said that if he owned hell and Texas, he would live in hell and rent out Texas.
Yeah, that's about the only funny thing I've heard of Little Phil having said. It sounds more like something Uncle Billy would have said, now he had a way with words.
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Old 09-17-2011, 07:59 AM
 
Location: Chicago - Logan Square
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There is this interesting phenomenon in Chicago, lots of immigrants end up there, but very few people from other parts of the country, excluding midwest/great lakes region.

I know many people that are transplants from Mississippi, western Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana.
Yeah, I think that like anywhere in the country you'll find more people moving from within the region, but I know loads of people who have moved to Chicago from all over the country.

At work about half the people in our office grew up in Chicago or the Midwest. The other half is from all over - NJ, Georgia, Colorado, South Carolina, Connecticut, and Massachusetts are some that I can think of off the top of my head. We also have recent immigrants from Canada and Belarus. I moved here from Boston 18 years ago.
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Old 09-17-2011, 08:42 AM
 
Location: Schaumburg, please don't hate me for it.
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Yeah, that's about the only funny thing I've heard of Little Phil having said. It sounds more like something Uncle Billy would have said, now he had a way with words.
Yes Sheridan flopped with "The only good Indian is a dead Indian". Humor wasn't his strongpoint. In his defense, I gotta point out that he was a Catholic, and 19th century Catholics were not known for their comic tendencies.

Most of us weren't even allowed to chuckle until after Vatican II.
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Old 09-17-2011, 08:54 AM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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Yes Sheridan flopped with "The only good Indian is a dead Indian". Humor wasn't his strongpoint. In his defense, I gotta point out that he was a Catholic, and 19th century Catholics were not known for their comic tendencies.

Most of us weren't even allowed to chuckle until after Vatican II.


Yeah, Sheridan was born on the boat on the way over from Ireland.

He was one Hell of a dedicated and hard driving soldier though; his energy and bloody minded determination was a shot in the arm to the lethargic Army of the Potomac. He was hoping Lee wouldn't surrender at Appomattox; he wanted to "smash em up", he was enjoying himself.
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Old 09-17-2011, 08:58 AM
 
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Yes Sheridan flopped with "The only good Indian is a dead Indian". Humor wasn't his strongpoint. In his defense, I gotta point out that he was a Catholic, and 19th century Catholics were not known for their comic tendencies.

Most of us weren't even allowed to chuckle until after Vatican II.
BTW, Phil Sheridan "lives" on, with a statue in front of the New York state capital in Albany..
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Old 09-17-2011, 09:17 AM
 
Location: Chicago, IL SouthWest Suburbs
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I know many people that are transplants from Mississippi, western Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana.
Just look at the recent threads of people and where they are moving from.
You see Michigan, Texas, Florida , New York, California.
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Old 09-17-2011, 10:44 AM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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Just look at the recent threads of people and where they are moving from.
You see Michigan, Texas, Florida , New York, California.

Oh, then I don't know people from Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana? You must know a few yourself. I reckon they don't idle at CityData.
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