Why do Chicagoans look down on people from the suburbs? (Evanston: 2013, apartment)

[prhill]

Originally Posted by Clark&Addison

What is ignorant is taking the liberty to paint 7 million people as "X, Y, and Z" because you decided to live within a particular municipality and they didn't . You must not have been here long or taken many rides on the CTA if you think People living in the city can't be uncultured, loud, or ignorant. What a joke.

Have you ever lived in the burbs!

[Alacran]

Originally Posted by Chitwncraig

Because they are typically uncultured, loud and ignorant, and say "we're going downtown" when that means anyplace in the city of Chicago. I could go on.

Lol.
Cus people from Cicero cross the street and day "I'm downtown"
Right

[prhill]

Originally Posted by Alacran

Lol.
Cus people from Cicero cross the street and day "I'm downtown"
Right

Many people from the burbs do consider all of the city as downtown so he is right about that.

[fusillirob1983]

Originally Posted by prhill

Many people from the burbs do consider all of the city as downtown so he is right about that.

Although I don't think it's appropriate to lump all suburban dwellers with the "boring schedule" listed earlier in this thread or to lump all city dwellers as people who "think they're better than suburbanites", but this one thing is fairly accurate. When I lived in Lakeview, I'd estimate that about 50% of the people I knew from the burbs would ask me how things were going while living downtown. I couldn't tell if they were ignorant of where I actually lived or if they believed Lakeview was part of downtown, so I always clarified that I didn't live downtown.

[green apple]

Originally Posted by prhill

Many people from the burbs do consider all of the city as downtown so he is right about that.

I've seen debates about people literally trying to figure out what constitutes downtown Chicago. Doesn't get more rube than that.

[prhill]

Originally Posted by green apple

I've seen debates about people literally trying to figure out what constitutes downtown Chicago. Doesn't get more rube than that.

That is typical of suburbanites

[jwaiter]

There was a thread here about it...

//www.city-data.com/forum/chica...-downtown.html

[prhill]

Originally Posted by jwaiter

There was a thread here about it...

//www.city-data.com/forum/chica...-downtown.html

I know people argue over which street is the southern border is it Congress, Roosevelt or 22nd street. Is the west border the river or Halsted. is the North border the river or up to North avenue. Some even argue is the eastern border the lake or Michigan avenue

I have even heard people argue what is the Loop. Is it where the el tracks are or is it Congress, Michigan ave and the river to the north and west

[green apple]

Originally Posted by jwaiter

There was a thread here about it...

//www.city-data.com/forum/chica...-downtown.html

Hilarious.

[chet everett]

Originally Posted by green apple

Hilarious.

Originally Posted by prhill

I know people argue over which street is the southern border is it Congress, Roosevelt or 22nd street. Is the west border the river or Halsted. is the North border the river or up to North avenue. Some even argue is the eastern border the lake or Michigan avenue

I have even heard people argue what is the Loop. Is it where the el tracks are or is it Congress, Michigan ave and the river to the north and west

Originally Posted by prhill

That is typical of suburbanites

Originally Posted by green apple

I've seen debates about people literally trying to figure out what constitutes downtown Chicago. Doesn't get more rube than that.

Originally Posted by fusillirob1983

Although I don't think it's appropriate to lump all suburban dwellers with the "boring schedule" listed earlier in this thread or to lump all city dwellers as people who "think they're better than suburbanites", but this one thing is fairly accurate. When I lived in Lakeview, I'd estimate that about 50% of the people I knew from the burbs would ask me how things were going while living downtown. I couldn't tell if they were ignorant of where I actually lived or if they believed Lakeview was part of downtown, so I always clarified that I didn't live downtown.

Originally Posted by prhill

Many people from the burbs do consider all of the city as downtown so he is right about that.

...of current "urbanists".

There are actual several accepted English uses of the term "downtown" which include the generic understanding of places that may in fact be hip or trendy as well substitutes for phrases that include: "heading deeper into the business center of the city" or "headed from the north/ northwest into the portion of Chicago that is farther south/SE". https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/downtown

By extension it may also be assumed that even people living in a suburb due west of Chicago such as Oak Park would not be automatically wrong to call places like Lakeview, which is inarguably more hip and trendy as well as more dense than Oak Park, and generally requiring either CTA trip or driving toward the Loop to be colloquially referred to as "downtown". The same logic can even be extended to those living in say south suburban Oak Lawn to refer to Lakeview as "downtown" due both their actual understanding of the hip factor and their knowledge that lack any route would at least skirt downtown...

One can easily imagine how being "corrected" by some smug twit would trigger hatred of someone for such ridiculous self-importance.