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Mass all the way. Chicago is very nice, but after that Illinois is just flat and boring. I hate to say it.
Mass has a lot more diversity with its topography, history and towns/small cities across the state and its coastal influence is very quaint (more so than Lake Michigan).
This one's close, but still Illinois. Massachusetts as a complete state including the islands in the Atlantic is pretty nice though
They're basically the same kinda state, Relying on One big city then a Hinterland. The Massachusetts Hinterland is better, But still ...I'm Rolling with Illinois on this one
Naw there’s several independent cities and connections to other states in MA via large metro areas like Springfield Worcester and Providence MSA.
I wouldn’t call most of MA hinterland..it’s just not Boston
The population is much closer: MA's 6.9mil vs IL's 12.7 mil vs New England's 14.8 mil.
Land area too: MA's 10.6k square miles vs IL's 57.9k square miles vs New England's 72k square miles. And Illinois doesn't have any completely unsettled area like Maine does.
I'd argue the current comparison is unfair to mass. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
True, the criteria is pretty fair and seems to take the difference in size into account.
OP, you said your family was moving to IL? Are they going to Chicago or somewhere else in the state? If the latter, than why drag the whole state into it? I hear downstate Illinois people really dislike Chicago.
True, the criteria is pretty fair and seems to take the difference in size into account.
OP, you said your family was moving to IL? Are they going to Chicago or somewhere else in the state? If the latter, than why drag the whole state into it? I hear downstate Illinois people really dislike Chicago.
Chicago.
But I didnt see an IL vs MA thread and I wanted to get a better view of the states themselves.
Maybe a ChicagoLand vs Greater Boston area thread would have sufficed.
But I didnt see an IL vs MA thread and I wanted to get a better view of the states themselves.
Maybe a ChicagoLand vs Greater Boston area thread would have sufficed.
Yeah, where in Illinois kind of matters. As you might imagine, the culture is a little different in the Chicago area versus, say, Mound City which is only 35 miles from Tennessee.
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