Milwaukee's Biggest Suburb.....Chicago!

[Tao111]

Originally Posted by Drover

^^ But not until after you get the last word in, right?

Looks like that is what YOU were just doing ^^ Here's a final word for you...

I almost always hear people from Milwaukee in the real world (not on these lame boards or in Milwaukee city's mind) say nice stuff about Chicago. Really. They like visiting, partying, and shopping..and so on. They usually do not want to live there because of the bigger hassles that go along with a major city but they enjoy having Chicago close by as a sort of playground. Milwaukee businesses and consumers give Chicago alot of potential business and vice versa. So the compliments and business come Chicago's way. But what does Milwaukee get in return? Mostly some offhanded smarmy remarks about how they are some extension of Illinois or that Chicago pays for their ballpark and other nonsense. Little bit of the 2nd city (now 3rd) complex creeps in. You would expect it to be the other way around.
When it comes to St. Louis, its a little different story. St Louis for the most part cannot stand Chicago. Chicagoans in turn are always running St Louis into the ground which is wrong.. because Chicago is in the unique position (world class city here!) of being gracious and pumping up the cities around them to make an overall better economy. Chicago has nothing to gain by minimizing those cities in any way. It either makes Chicago look bad as a supposed world class city, or it alienates people from those places who will think twice about spending any money or time in Chicago. Big cities who claim to be the classiest and most cultured should act like it, and everything eventually rises with them. Isn't that the point?

[nanannie]

QUOTE "Heres a final word for you"
I thought you wanted the thread to die
No thanks on reading your final post..its that poor dead horse again isnt it?

[linicx]

The 7 trolls are gone and so is this thread.