To those born and/or living on the coasts, do you perceive Chicago to be "unsophisticated"?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. It's in the midwest. It's land locked. I would never be able to live there.

You must have missed the 23,000 square mile lake it sits on. Wow, I can’t believe how stupid some on these comments are.

I grew up in Chicago and we spent a lot of time sailing on Lake Michigan. I've sailed across the lake numerous times from Chicago to various parts of Michigan and back. Most people don't know that it takes 10 - 14 hours to sail across the lake, and for the majority of that time you don't see land at all.

People who have never seen the Great Lakes have no idea just how Great they are!

Land locked - LOL.

Apparently you don’t know what “landlocked” means. A lake, yes even a big one, is not the sea.

It sure looks like it when you are at the shoreline. The lake is vast.

You are proving my point. Shut up about the lake already. The Great Lakes are not the ocean and never will be. Yes, the lake is vast, ok. But yes, the Midwest is landlocked.

Someone is triggered!

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Anonymous wrote:A work colleague based in Manhattan on zoom earlier today called it a gorgeous city "but unfortunately, it's rather unsophisticated." Others on the zoom nodded and chuckled in agreement, including people from Chicago who now live elsewhere.

That's just how people from Manhattan see the rest of the world. Don't take it personally.

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Anonymous wrote:A work colleague based in Manhattan on zoom earlier today called it a gorgeous city "but unfortunately, it's rather unsophisticated." Others on the zoom nodded and chuckled in agreement, including people from Chicago who now live elsewhere.

That's just how people from Manhattan see the rest of the world. Don't take it personally.

I have been to Manhattan many times, and there are plenty of unsophisticated aspects of it. At least in Chicago, they don’t throw plastic bags full of trash on the sidewalk that smell up the entire city.

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Anonymous wrote:A work colleague based in Manhattan on zoom earlier today called it a gorgeous city "but unfortunately, it's rather unsophisticated." Others on the zoom nodded and chuckled in agreement, including people from Chicago who now live elsewhere.

That's just how people from Manhattan see the rest of the world. Don't take it personally.

I have been to Manhattan many times, and there are plenty of unsophisticated aspects of it. At least in Chicago, they don’t throw plastic bags full of trash on the sidewalk that smell up the entire city.

https://nypost.com/2024/07/26/us-news/its-the-nycs-stinkiest-summer-in-years-with-complaints-soaring-and-heres-why/

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Chicago and lived there my first 40 years. Trust me when I say, no one in Chicago cares one little bit what anyone in NY or anywhere in California thinks of them.

Writing this from my Chicago home office and believe this is accurate. Chicago may lack some NY sophistication but it has all the great things about city living at a fraction of the price.

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Chicagoan adding that people here are into what they perceive as the supremacy of the alley system vs NYC leaving trash on the curb every night. I work remotely for an NYC firm and when I tell my fellow Chicagoans about going to NY for work or something they often comment about the garbage. That's not really a point in the sophisticate category but people are friendly.

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No. But I detest people that would label anything “unsophisticated”. They are probably snotty.

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People who think its unsophisticated are racist. If it was Boston (majority white) nobody would think that

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Anonymous wrote:I know a guy in medicine who turned down a job offer in Chicago with an eye-popping bump in comp to remain in Boston. He said Chicago felt isolated. Very Midwest. Very cliquish and full of Big Ten state school alums. Accent is also nails on a chalkboard.

I guy from Boston said this about the Chicago accent? You're kidding, right? Boston? Bahh-stin?

He is not from Boston, he works in Boston. Boston is a full of transplants from all over, Chicago is full of Midwest hicks.

There is a gorgeous influencer in Chicago my daughter follows. She went to USC for college and then back to Chicago to begin her career. She is so pretty, blonde... but then she opens her mouth and has an awful Chicago/Midwest accent.

Found her.
https://www.instagram.com/grace.andrews/

That’s not a Chicago accent. It’s more Lake Erie/Toledo.

Wrong. That is a quintessential awful Chicago accent. Her photos show she went to a ritzy private k-12 day school in Chicago.

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Anonymous wrote:the thing about chicago is it's not near anywhere else most people would ever want to go. NYC/ Boston/ DC are near each other and new england, plus closer to europe. Cali has the whole 'west' scene. where do you go for a road trip from chicago? wisconsin? indiana? It feels sort of isolated from other good options. which is a different but unrelated issue from being unsophisticated.

This is my feeling, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicagoan adding that people here are into what they perceive as the supremacy of the alley system vs NYC leaving trash on the curb every night. I work remotely for an NYC firm and when I tell my fellow Chicagoans about going to NY for work or something they often comment about the garbage. That's not really a point in the sophisticate category but people are friendly.

Chicago is also totally rat infested, so that’s a weird thing for Chicago residents to knock New York for.

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Anonymous wrote:the thing about chicago is it's not near anywhere else most people would ever want to go. NYC/ Boston/ DC are near each other and new england, plus closer to europe. Cali has the whole 'west' scene. where do you go for a road trip from chicago? wisconsin? indiana? It feels sort of isolated from other good options. which is a different but unrelated issue from being unsophisticated.

This is my feeling, too.

Oh good, another person who is ignorant on this topic.

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Anonymous wrote:I know a guy in medicine who turned down a job offer in Chicago with an eye-popping bump in comp to remain in Boston. He said Chicago felt isolated. Very Midwest. Very cliquish and full of Big Ten state school alums. Accent is also nails on a chalkboard.

I guy from Boston said this about the Chicago accent? You're kidding, right? Boston? Bahh-stin?

He is not from Boston, he works in Boston. Boston is a full of transplants from all over, Chicago is full of Midwest hicks.

There is a gorgeous influencer in Chicago my daughter follows. She went to USC for college and then back to Chicago to begin her career. She is so pretty, blonde... but then she opens her mouth and has an awful Chicago/Midwest accent.

Found her.
https://www.instagram.com/grace.andrews/

That’s not a Chicago accent. It’s more Lake Erie/Toledo.

Wrong. That is a quintessential awful Chicago accent. Her photos show she went to a ritzy private k-12 day school in Chicago.

Oh, you’re back. Great.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicagoan adding that people here are into what they perceive as the supremacy of the alley system vs NYC leaving trash on the curb every night. I work remotely for an NYC firm and when I tell my fellow Chicagoans about going to NY for work or something they often comment about the garbage. That's not really a point in the sophisticate category but people are friendly.

Chicago is also totally rat infested, so that’s a weird thing for Chicago residents to knock New York for.

I’ve never seen more rats than in DC. Roaches too.

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Anonymous wrote:I know a guy in medicine who turned down a job offer in Chicago with an eye-popping bump in comp to remain in Boston. He said Chicago felt isolated. Very Midwest. Very cliquish and full of Big Ten state school alums. Accent is also nails on a chalkboard.

I guy from Boston said this about the Chicago accent? You're kidding, right? Boston? Bahh-stin?

He is not from Boston, he works in Boston. Boston is a full of transplants from all over, Chicago is full of Midwest hicks.

Hmm. I went to school in Boston and it is full of grown men wearing backwards baseball caps and sports jerseys. Just really unappealing.