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[quote=Anonymous]Having lived in New York, San Francisco and Chicago for a minimum of seven years in each city and being a New Yorker by birth I feel I can give a fairly balanced answer.

New York - very aggressive and ambitious, life can’t exist west of the Hudson River, pseudo sophisticates only due to their spending, flock to the Hamptons  because that is what sophisticates are supposed to do, send your kids away to prep schools because that’s what sophisticated people do. A lot of culture but mostly used by tourists.

San Francisco - not very aggressive or ambitious (ex Silicon Valley types), view CA as a country unto itself with the rest of the country being pretty irrelevant, leisure time a higher priority than other parts of the country (weather related). Plenty of culture but people are avoiding the city.

Chicago - pretty ambitious and work hard, but definitely not NY ambition or aggressiveness. People love the city in the summer where in NYC people exit as often as possible. Great museums, small theaters and music venues. Midwest values do exist as the people are really very nice and family oriented.

All three cities have great medical facilities and universities.

When we got transferred from NY to Chicago we weren’t happy but after a number of years there we decided not to go back to NY. SF was beautiful because of the weather and physical beauty but we didn’t like the CA centric attitude plus the governance. [/quote]

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