Why do so many people LOVE the Northside? (Chicago, Oak Park: how much, living in)

[Alacran]

Come to Troy an Ainsle on a weekend night and say that, chinuub

[Chicago South Sider]

Originally Posted by Midwest Revival

Whenever I see people come on Citydata or in housing conversations, I always see HARDCORE Northside D**k Riders! You Northsiders act like it's nothing more to Chicago than the Nside. Sure, you guys might have all the fancy apartments, high rised condo's, and sexy cafes on every corner but that doesnt make a community/neighborhood. I went to a Jesse Jackson Jr speech(Not the biggest Fan of him) but he made a good point, why does the Northside get EVERYTHING? Im a Southsider you grew up in the projects(Which I bet most of you have no clue about), I want to see more growth and development down south. A neighborhood will never get better if you dont put any opportunity into it.

It's true that northsiders are very annoying with their attitude that they are the only side of town. Even a burger flipper will turn his nose up at you if you tell him that you lieve on the south or west sides. That being said, the north side is the most urban and diverse side of town with the best food. It is what it is.

I would love to see more development on the south side but I won't hold my breath.

[Chicago South Sider]

Originally Posted by Alacran

Come to Troy an Ainsle on a weekend night and say that, chinuub

What would happen if he did?

[Alacran]

Same thing that would happen if he went to 27th and drake on a weekend night and said the southside was all yuppies and artists

[FlyiMetro]

Originally Posted by Alacran

Growth and Development GDK


But nah.
It's because most of the lakefront northside (I'm not gonna clump all the northside as one cus transplants are for the most part still wary of the northside west of western) is a place where transplants congregate.
And the people who come to city data are not really Chicagoans. IT's people who are going to move here. So that's why the northside lakefront is brought up a lot. Because that's where most of them live. The northside lakefront area gets a lot of things because it's many different people from different parts who have different tastes.

And why doesn't the southside get more stuff? Because they don't want it.
The ghetto area I live in got a supermarket for the first time in like 20 years and it didn't last a year.
A gamestop isn't gonna survive in the hood.
A starbucks isn't gonna survive there
A sandwich shop isn't.
A doggy spa isn't gonna survive there.

There's no point. If there WAS a big improvement it'd probably be due to the ghetto people leaving the area aka gentrification

I agree with this post 100Percent. The hood vaalues nothing & they don't eserve anything.

[jonnynonos]

The premise of this thread isn't even true, though. Do people come on here talking about Edison Park, Cragin, Montclare any more than they do Woodlawn or Lawndale?

Most of the conversation centers around neighborhoods closer to the city center or the lake for obvious reasons.

[OldFaithful]

People like what they know.

[urbanlife78]

Personally I would like to see all parts of Chicago prosper and enjoy the good fortunes of the city, instead of complaining about the northside, I would be more interested in hearing how the city can reduce crime, improve education, and improve job developments and housing developments for the southside. It makes no sense not to have healthy neighborhoods all along the redline and throughout much of that area.

[FlyiMetro]

Originally Posted by Chicago South Sider

It's true that northsiders are very annoying with their attitude that they are the only side of town. Even a burger flipper will turn his nose up at you if you tell him that you lieve on the south or west sides. That being said, the north side is the most urban and diverse side of town with the best food. It is what it is.

I would love to see more development on the south side but I won't hold my breath.

Is the Westside as dirty & poor as the Southside? Its seems the Southside has been the cities toilet for a few decades now.

[Larry Siegel]

Originally Posted by BRU67

It just amazes me what some of these community areas tolerate. If I lived in, say, Roseland, I'd be on the phone with the PD so much, I'd be sending Christmas and birthday cards to all of the dispatchers. Use a garbage can. Don't let your parties go past midnight and if they do, move them inside. Get a group of neighbors together and pick up trash. Cut your lawn once a week. Quickly clean graffiti from your garage and don't leave the outline there. Call police when kids gather on the corner. It'll let 'em know you're watching them. If people would do these little things, which are free, it would make some of these areas 1,000 times better, and maybe then people would consider more neighborhoods in the City as viable alternatives.

You could do all this crap (that other people should be doing, but don't) or else move. My parents tried to keep their neighborhood from turning into a hellhole 40 years ago but after the people across the street from them were beaten up and tied up in their own home by robbers, they moved to a safe area.