Culture (Museums, theatre, art galleries, festivals, music scene, etc.) I'm going to break this into categories.
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Museums:
Chicago
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Theater:
Chicago
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Art Galleries:
Chicago
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Festivals:
Toss up, Chicago has a lot of European and Asian festivals and Miami has a lot of Caribbean and Latin American festivals
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Music Scene:
Chicago
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Culture:
Toss up, they're both culturally different, it depends on what you prefer.
(This was a Chicago category because Midwesterners and Northeast people generally are way more into Art, theater, etc... it's not Miami's fault at all here.)
Scenery:
Toss up, Chicago has some beautiful scenery from the lake front and architecturally it's amazing, and Miami has some beautiful natural scenery and it's new gleaming skyline helps make it look wonderful.
Parks:
Chicago, 2nd busiest park in USA after NYC, and it's got 52 parks in city proper with more in metro
Shopping:
Miami, Miami deserves this one, it's world renowned shopping paradise, only Vegas and NYC can beat that and LA too. But Chicago's is definitely good. 5th in the country.
Education:
Chicago (Northwestern, University of Chicago, etc..)
Restaurants:
Chicago, ties with San Francisco and is only behind NYC on dining
Nightlife:
Toss up.
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Chicago: Sports bars, bars, international festivities
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Miami: Clubs, beach activities, etc..
(Chicago has some good clubs too, but Miami is better just like Miami has good bars but Chicago is better)
Public Transportation:
Chicago
Economy:
Chicago (2nd largest financial center in USA after NYC and 5th in the world)
Better Quality of Life:
Toss Up, subjective, it depends on who you are and what you prefer.
Better housing costs:
Chicago
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Originally Posted by grapico
these cities are simply just not in the same league, miami can not even compete with smaller cities like boston/sf/dc, much less vs. one of the top 5 commerce centers in the world.
top 10 in world by mastercard
#1 london
#2 nyc
#3 tokyo
#4 singapore
#5 chicago
#6 hong kong
#7 paris...
etc. etc..
simply put having a lot of money flowing through over periods longer than a century have a lot to do with all of the other variables...one of these would be miami being a fashion center and huge hub for latin america.
there are some other dimensions could win in though, but they aren't listed.
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I agree with Grapico, you can't compare a city of Chicago's size to Miami, the population of the metro is nearly double of Miami's and the city population is nearly 6 times more.
Chicago is always either too big or to small to compare to other cities, it's bigger than Miami, Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, but smaller than NYC.
Although all of those cities have some things Chicago doesn't, but overall, it's a pretty unfair comparison.
Los Angeles just might be the only city you can compare to Chicago, because it's nearly around the same ball park for metro population and city proper population isn't that dramatically different for the two. But they're so different that they can cancel each other out in comparison.
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Originally Posted by clean_polo
I'm not surprised if Miami gets bashed like 3739373037 times in this thread though. It's a young city especially compared to Chicago and it's still "under construction" shall I say. Chicago has a lot more history and it was developed longer ago than Miami. Both great cities IMO.
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Hardly man, I'm a Chicagoan and I won't bash Miami. I already know how it feels to have your city bashed day and night on here. Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago take a lot of heat from everyone and get bashed so much. The North and South thing is natural, I don't consider Atlanta and Boston bashing each other out of the ordinary, that's expected with the level of immaturity on this site. But LA, Miami, and Chicago get bashed endlessly because people always want to put them down...
I'm playing fair, it's the right thing to do.
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Originally Posted by yellowboy06
There is a ton of cities that are just like Miami in the world but, there is not one other city like Chicago.
Miami is overrated...
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That's not true, there really isn't a replica of Miami anywhere. You can't name any other city that gives you the Caribbean feel and has every Latin America/Caribbean culture represented like that. NYC has a lot, but it's so diverse with other cultures from the world, that it doesn't feel like that.
To the OP, this really was a very unfair comparison for Miami. Chicago is a larger city.
1. NYC
2a. Los Angeles
2b. Chicago
For 3 and onward down the list, comes every other city. (Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, Houston, Dallas, etc...)
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