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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand what is wrong with chain restaurants and coffee shops. They have all grown to be chains because what they offered was good.[/quote]

It’s a lot of the same food - Chili’s is not that different than Applebee’s. But neither has Thai food or (as I ordered tonight from my city home) Pho. If you want fine dining or a menu that doesn’t have a chicken finger option you can’t go to a chain.[/quote]

Good grief.  The best Pho you can get (delivered or pick it up yourself) is in the suburbs of DC.  Some of you are insufferable.[/quote]

I didn't say you can't get Pho in the suburbs. I was responding to someone who asked why people are always knocking on chain restaurants. I think the knock is that they are very similar, not that they are bad, but if you want something different you don't go to a chain. [/quote]
OP here- as I go through all these comments I realize I just REALLY like being part of my community. [b]Living in the city for the first 26 years of my life I knew our butcher, the local diner owner, the bartenders at the pubs, the neighborhood grandma that owns the Italian deli, the ramen shop owner whose kids were always helping around the restaurant, the owner of the independent book store who gives back SO much to the local kids. [/b]I still go back and pop in those places and they ask about my kids, how my parents are, say they remember when I was first allowed to walk to those places with friends, etc. It's nothing like walking into a Chilis, having a bored teen as your waitress, and eating crappy deep fried food. [/quote]

This isn’t unique to living in a city.  It’s unique to NOT living in a soulless suburb.

I live in a small town and have a local butcher, farmers market, can walk/bike to parks, an independent book store where we always buy kid birthday parties, etc.  No chains since they aren’t allowed.  Actually we do have a CVS and that was controversial.

I do find city people a bit delusional about chains. They eat at sweetgreen and can’t understand that it’s a chain. [/quote]

This isn't meant to be a city vs suburb debate.  OP has a real decision to make about an actual piece of property in a neighborhood that she's lived in, in a building where her grandparents still live.  Sure if that wasn't an option she could and should consider a wide variety of potential new neighborhoods, but in her reply above she's citing actual places that she knows and would be returning to.  [/quote]

+1. OP is asking about a specific opportunity - not generally whether city or suburbs are better, nor which type of suburb is better. She didn't suggest that she has the choice to relocate to a different suburb that may be a better fit. OP has replied throughout this thread with so many good reasons why she should return to the city. To be closer to family, return to a community they're both already established in, etc. Chicago is a fundamentally different city than DC. I lived there pre-kids, so the school situation is totally unfamiliar to me, but the Chicago posters have said it can be stressful, but manageable. Plus high school is far off for them. Seems like a once in a lifetime opportunity for OP, and I'd jump on it! [/quote]

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