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Well, going back and forth from Denver and Chicago...I'd have to say that many people on this fourm from Chicago like to "inforce" that it is a NYC type city.
I might get crap for saying that, but we all know its true.
IMHO, it seems rather than most people trying to "inforce" that Chicago is a "NYC type city", more people on this forum seem to do the opposite and say Chicago is a very different city from New York.
Personally, I think there are real difference between the two cities but at the same time as a New Yorker (well Ex-New Yorker) I feel closer to Chicago than say I do to the other top 3 city, Los Angeles.
What do I mean by that? Well I mean, besides the obvious skyscrapers/downtown of Chicago and New York, I mean the park system, the various museums and culture, the commuter railroads, the "El" and mass transit, the history (from the roughly the civil war on) and even the large number of greenbelt areas (the prairie perserves) to the west of Chicago, similar to greenbelt lands of the Northeast.
Definitely. Even the CA boosters generally are OK with New York itself, even when a NY'er is bashing them. But it seems like Philly has attracted a lot of haters... don't get it. I have a pretty benign opinion of the place. I haven't spent that much time there but didn't dislike it, so it's okay by me.
On CD Boston and Philly are complete oppisites, while Philly has intense haters and Boosters, while Boston has few Posters with strong feeling for or against, However in real life both cities are very similar in size, culture, History ect. I just find it odd how 2 similar cities can have radically different distribution of opinion.
There are NY'ers here who start threads and polls for the sole purpose of denigrating CA, and jump into any discussion on CA vs. __ to weigh in on how much they think CA sucks, even though they've probably never been to either place.
I agree, as I've seen it the other way around. The feud isn't friendly like it should be. It's amusing sometimes and embarrassing others.
..... which is crazy. Some will also talk you into believing it is miraculously exempt from the insane summer heat, traffic, sprawl, suburban characteristics, strip malls, overhead power lines and other things people complain about with regard to the other Texas cities. And that it is on par with the big leagues as far as big city life, when in reality it's not even close to approaching Houston/Dallas on those sorts of things. Hilarious. I'm not trying to dog it, but people need to be realistic.
but but but they have music, 6th st, barton springs and bats
Awe shucks. In some ways Philly is better than those cities, that's not bragging that's just the truth.
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Originally Posted by WuBMaYNE
A lot of people on here brag about Philadelphia as if it's on par with NYC and Chicago when it's not even close.
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