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You can walk to a bar in New York and start complaining about life in the city. Most people will start complaining with you. New York is the complaining capitol of the world. It does not mean that people are not proud of their city but that they are mature enough to realize its shortcomings and see things that should improve.
Now, in Chicago, even slight criticism of the city is taken as a personal assault. People there and in this forum will defend the indefendable such as harsh weather, terrible traffic or potholes. They will make claims such as the one posted by Spire few pages ago about Chicago being "the best cosmopolitan city" without even thinking if they have any supporting evidence. This is again very childish. You want to badmouth the Yankees, you can do it but do not be surprised when people remind you that there is no other team holding as many national titles as them, but no New Yorker will ever claim that New York and not LA is the center of American film industry. This would be absurd.
It's a matter of balance and Chicago is very bad at this as the undelying inferiority complex forces people to make absurd claims and blow things like potential Olympics or Obama's presidency out of proportions.
Try finding a deli in Chicago(don't want to confuse them by saying Bodega)!
Nope. ALMOST no delis in Chicago, they were replaced by soulless, pretentious Starbucks, Pot Bellies, Chipotles and others. Pretentious as some of the chains pretend to sell authentic ethnic food. Olive Garden is NOT an Italian restaurant. Chicago's food scene, even at the lower level (cost) has been demolished by uniform chains selling the same food around the country. Strip mall mentality: no originality, no real choice.
While in Chicago I always miss the delis and street food vendors. It's very sad what goes for decent food in this city.
Ive notice people kept saying highrises when stating the number of buildings in NY and Chicago. The Numbers NY approx. 6200, Chicago approx. 1200 is referring to the number of skyscrapers by a certain size, but still NY trumps Chicago in both skyscrapers and high rises as well aesthetically pleasing.
Nope. ALMOST no delis in Chicago, they were replaced by soulless, pretentious Starbucks, Pot Bellies, Chipotles and others. Pretentious as some of the chains pretend to sell authentic ethnic food. Olive Garden is NOT an Italian restaurant. Chicago's food scene, even at the lower level (cost) has been demolished by uniform chains selling the same food around the country. No originality, no real choice. While in Chicago I really miss the delis and street food vendors. It's very sad what goes for decent food in this city.
Olive Garden..... That greasy, nasty, imitation for Italian food!...That place makes me mad!!.....
It's not sad, it's "The Chicago way".................
Ive notice people kept saying highrises when stating the number of buildings in NY and Chicago. The Numbers NY approx. 6200, Chicago approx. 1200 is referring to the number of skyscrapers by a certain size, but still NY trumps Chicago in both skyscrapers and high rises as well aesthetically pleasing.
BigCity, Chicago's skyline would fit but not fill the Central Park. How can you even compare these two?
Ive notice people kept saying highrises when stating the number of buildings in NY and Chicago. The Numbers NY approx. 6200, Chicago approx. 1200 is referring to the number of skyscrapers by a certain size, but still NY trumps Chicago in both skyscrapers and high rises as well aesthetically pleasing.
So basically, NYC is 6 TIMES the city that Chicago is!.....
I'm in NYC right now, I know the BIG difference between here and Chicago.....
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