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View Poll Results: Do Chicagoans wish the city were located on the East Coast?
Yes 10 17.86%
No 46 82.14%
Voters: 56. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-15-2017, 09:16 AM
 
Location: Where the heart is...
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Well I haven't been in a while, but do you mean to tell me that Chicagoans are noticeably that much nicer? I mean really there are no rude people in a city that big? I find that hard to believe.
How can you say with absolute authority that Chicagoans are not noticeably nicer? Do you know unequivocally that because Chicago is a big city that Chicagoans are rude?

Wow, I missed that in that post from cfbs and I was just getting ready to go down into the city. Well, that's off my list of things to do today, maybe tomorrow.

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Old 08-15-2017, 09:22 AM
 
Location: South Florida
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Wow, I missed that in that post from cfbs and I was just getting ready to go down into the city. Well, that's off my list of things to do today, maybe tomorrow.
hysterical

Spend a day or two in Boca Raton, FL and then spend some time in Chicago.
The way people behave couldn't be more different.
It's very noticeable.
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Old 08-15-2017, 09:45 AM
 
Location: That star on your map in the middle of the East Coast, DMV
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How can you say with absolute authority that Chicagoans are not noticeably nicer? Do you know unequivocally that because Chicago is a big city that Chicagoans are rude?

Wow, I missed that in that post from cfbs and I was just getting ready to go down into the city. Well, that's off my list of things to do today, maybe tomorrow.
It goes both ways. I've met people from small town America who were rude or disrespectful before, so certainly Chicago a city of almost 3 million people is capable of having nice folks and rude ones.
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Old 08-15-2017, 11:05 AM
 
Location: South Florida
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what I'm getting at is, as Chicagoans do they prefer to be in a Midwest region where their city is the only world class one in the entire region, or would they prefer it that they were a part of a region with many other world class/highly important cities close by.
This is completely insulting and rude to the entire Midwest.
But it's so rude it's funny.
What meter do you use OP to measure what cities are "important" and what cities aren't?
Do you think everyone in the Midwest wishes they lived on the east coast?

I'm guessing that you assumed everyone who took your poll was going to vote that they wished Chicago could be moved to the east coast?

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Old 08-15-2017, 02:26 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH USA / formerly Chicago for 20 years
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Well I haven't been in a while, but do you mean to tell me that Chicagoans are noticeably that much nicer? I mean really there are no rude people in a city that big? I find that hard to believe.
There are plenty of rude people in Chicago.
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Old 08-15-2017, 03:04 PM
 
Location: 78745
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Do Chicagoans feel like their city could jump up and be propped over to the East Coast? The city anchors a Midwest region of over 65 million people, in which many people from media to politics still over look. The city of Chicago is beloved by most people that I know personally, but often times the Midwest (not necessarily Chicago) is viewed as "flyover" country. I have relatives throughout the Midwest and those sentiments have come out from time to time. The media coverage at least nationally always seems to center around both coasts, with Chicago being a distant third with regards to the coverage. How is that the case being a world class city that it is the 3rd largest urban metropolis and media market in the country? Couple that with much of the biased coverage being about the crime in Chicago, which we know plagues much of urban America. If Chicago were on the East Coast, what would be different about the city, and what would be different about the respective regions of the Midwest or Eastern Seaboard?

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Also I guess I should have worded my poll differently, as to say provide more than just a simple yes or no. If it is a "no" is that because you prefer living in the Midwest region as a whole, or possibly even love the fact that Chicago dominates its region that much? Or do you not like to associate with the EC? Whatever reasons for saying yes or no, I'd like to understand.
I think Chicago should be on the Gulf Coast, between Houston and Corpus Christi. Demographically speaking, large populations of Hispanics, blacks and working class whites, Chicago would fit better in Texas than it would on the East Coast.
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Old 08-15-2017, 03:35 PM
 
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I think Chicago should be on the Gulf Coast, between Houston and Corpus Christi. Demographically speaking, large populations of Hispanics, blacks and working class whites, Chicago would fit better in Texas than it would on the East Coast.
No thanks, the weather is awful down there.
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Old 08-15-2017, 03:45 PM
 
Location: That star on your map in the middle of the East Coast, DMV
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This is completely insulting and rude to the entire Midwest.
But it's so rude it's funny.
What meter do you use OP to measure what cities are "important" and what cities aren't?
Do you think everyone in the Midwest wishes they lived on the east coast?


I'm guessing that you assumed everyone who took your poll was going to vote that they wished Chicago could be moved to the east coast?
What cities of the Midwest are more important than DC, Philadelphia, and Boston? Also was not making that statement to insult Midwestern cities as I have family in many of them.

I think there are people in the Midwest that would much rather live on the coasts than in "flyover country" yes. I know many are happy there and that's why they still live there, but still look at the rate of people moving towards the coasts/south and tell me that doesn't say something about the Midwest as a whole.

Chicago is an outlier in its region, of course you have pretty much all the amenities anybody would need in a city of its size. But there is something to be said about the region of the country a city is in. Seattle is in a beautiful region of the country for example, and many people love being there due to its region and isolation, yet still access to Vancouver or Portland or Spokane. Chicago is in a region where no city comes close to being half of what it is for maybe 1000 miles. This is completely different from what people experience living on the coasts.
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Old 08-15-2017, 04:01 PM
 
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I think Chicago should be on the Gulf Coast, between Houston and Corpus Christi. Demographically speaking, large populations of Hispanics, blacks and working class whites, Chicago would fit better in Texas than it would on the East Coast.
uh, no. I can't think of any place in the country that would be a worse fit for Chicago than Texas. Think about it.
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Old 08-15-2017, 04:27 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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This is one of the dumber posts I've seen in awhile and that's saying something.
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