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View Poll Results: Chicago is more like...
Philly, NYC, and Boston 139 76.37%
Indianapolis, Columbus, and Kansas City 43 23.63%
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Old 10-26-2016, 03:03 PM
 
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I have to admit that I compare Chicago to NY, because I grew up in NY, and it's my frame of reference, but while living in Chicago, I never heard Chicagoans comparing their city to NYC. They legitimately believe they live in the best city in the country. I heard far more NY comparisons while living in Boston. I think people in DC feel their city SHOULD be as or more important than NYC, and it really bothers them that it isn't. It really bothers them that our second and third cities outclass them, but LA is too far to punch up, so they take aim at Chicago.
DC people don't compare their city to NY or Chicago, nor is there an inferiority complex by any means. I think a lot of posters, especially from other cities have a difficult time understanding why DC posters boost up their city so much. As for DC being outclassed by Chicago and LA, i don't have an argument with that. DC is tiny compared to both cities, however, DC holds it's own weight compared to both and beats Chicago and LA in a lot of metrics as well.
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Old 10-26-2016, 03:05 PM
 
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You don't care about Chicago yet you've spent DAYS in the Chicago forums bickering with Chicagoans...

Who here has the inferiority complex?
I'm not bickering with anyone on here. What are you talking about? I have spent many nights in Chicago and I love the city. In fact, I like it more than NYC and I use to live in Brooklyn. I am sometimes critical of Chicago because it probably has more potential than any city in the U.S. The whole Southside is a goldmine. Once your politicians raise up and see the value, Chicago could become Shanghai of the U.S. Everyone doesn't have to agree with your brand of thinking. Go Cubs!
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Old 10-26-2016, 07:53 PM
 
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Chicago native here. Family moved out when I was young, been back nearly every year to visit extended family. To me Chicago is just a city sandwiched in between cornfields in my opinion. It never leaves me wanting to return for more, but always glad to leave. Nice people though, but I prefer NYC and Boston.
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Old 10-26-2016, 09:27 PM
 
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Chicago native here. Family moved out when I was young, been back nearly every year to visit extended family. To me Chicago is just a city sandwiched in between cornfields in my opinion. It never leaves me wanting to return for more, but always glad to leave. Nice people though, but I prefer NYC and Boston.
Uh, there's a little bit of water, too. Nice try, though.
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Old 10-26-2016, 10:39 PM
 
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Chicago native here. Family moved out when I was young, been back nearly every year to visit extended family. To me Chicago is just a city sandwiched in between cornfields in my opinion. It never leaves me wanting to return for more, but always glad to leave. Nice people though, but I prefer NYC and Boston.
Cornfields? In what direction? West of the city are factories. East is water/factories. North is a long chain of continuous suburbs followed by factories, and South is factories. So...sandwiched huh? Chicago is in the Rust Belt, not the cornbelt.

You could argue it is surrounded by decay and depression. But corn???

Even once you hit Aurora which many recognize is the very terminal of the metro, it is still a Rust Belt feel. Same with Joliet which is Rust Belt. Same with Waukegan. Same with Northwest Indiana (you have to go east of Michigan City and south of Crown Point to begin to see any corn), and same with South suburbs like South Holland or Chicago Heights. Very dense and urban and industrial. You have to get to south of Crete (probably even more to Beecher which is not even in the metro) before any transition to "downstate" starts to happen. I would say Kankakee is probably where downstate truly begins. But to say the city is sandwiched between Cornfields shows that you really don't visit often or are just making things up.
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Old 10-27-2016, 06:25 AM
 
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At what point did this thread morph into...

The rats creep out of the sewers: The official Chicago Troll Fest

????????
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Old 10-28-2016, 01:25 PM
 
Location: LA/ DC
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Major cities in America are far more alike than different. Same sh*t, different locale. Chicago is cool, DC is cool, East Coast, West...blah, blah. Similar experiences, access, built environment and types of people in all of them. Variations on the same theme.

Chicago is a great city, but little separates it from the East coast cities the original poster asked about.

If I had to pick ONE part of America to live in it would be coastal California. Perfect Mediterranean climate, LA, SD, Malibu, Laguna, Monterey. 3 major cities and massive burbs to explore and do business in. To me this area is head and shoulders above. Hopefully will be migrating there sooner rather than later for my U.S. base, but always gotta keep a foot in DC as well...too much opportunity here.

The real next movement for me is checking out spots outside of America. Interested in Medellin, Panama City, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Casablanca, Istanbul, Lisbon, Barcelona... list goes on...

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Old 10-30-2016, 09:13 AM
 
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Definitely more like the northeast such as Philly, Boston, and NYC than Kansas City, Indianapolis, and Columbus.
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Old 10-31-2016, 02:55 PM
 
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Cornfields? In what direction? West of the city are factories. East is water/factories. North is a long chain of continuous suburbs followed by factories, and South is factories. So...sandwiched huh? Chicago is in the Rust Belt, not the cornbelt.

You could argue it is surrounded by decay and depression. But corn???

Even once you hit Aurora which many recognize is the very terminal of the metro, it is still a Rust Belt feel. Same with Joliet which is Rust Belt. Same with Waukegan. Same with Northwest Indiana (you have to go east of Michigan City and south of Crown Point to begin to see any corn), and same with South suburbs like South Holland or Chicago Heights. Very dense and urban and industrial. You have to get to south of Crete (probably even more to Beecher which is not even in the metro) before any transition to "downstate" starts to happen. I would say Kankakee is probably where downstate truly begins. But to say the city is sandwiched between Cornfields shows that you really don't visit often or are just making things up.
Compared to metros of the Northeast and California, Chicagoland has a clear edge to its metro area, with corn beyond it. Route 47 in Kane County can easily be a road in rural Iowa, if it wasn't for a little more traffic. McHenry county even more so. I grew up on the edge of Cook and Lake County, and in the 80s and 90s there were cornfields not that far away.
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Old 10-31-2016, 03:14 PM
 
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Compared to metros of the Northeast and California, Chicagoland has a clear edge to its metro area, with corn beyond it. Route 47 in Kane County can easily be a road in rural Iowa, if it wasn't for a little more traffic. McHenry county even more so. I grew up on the edge of Cook and Lake County, and in the 80s and 90s there were cornfields not that far away.
Route 47? That is way beyond the city. Like not even close. How fare are yay extending the metro to fit your argument? Fact in Chicago is surrounded by more industry than agriculture. Rust Belt not corn belt.
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