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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m from the east coast (Fairfield county) and I’ve lived in chicago for 6 years. I cried moving here but I’m never leaving now. Why? Because it’s such a livable city.  The economy is good and housing is so cheap in comparison to where I’m from. People tend to have more kids here because they can. I’ll take my 400k HHI with mg 550k 5 bedroom home any day. Plus the public schools are decent here! Even if I’m around mostly ppl who grew up in unsophisticated Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin lol.[/quote]

Yeah, Chicago is great.

But people in Chicago get really bent out of shape about whether everyone else also feels it. Take your HHI and your nice neighborhood and be happy (not you, you sound like you're doing it) and stop worrying about what people in Boston and NYC think of you. [/quote]

I live in the Chicago area with high HHI and the lower COL and it’s fine, like most other ok to well off suburbs in the country. It’s cheap to live here because most people here don’t make as much and let’s be real, most people wouldn’t want to live here. Even people FROM here question why I moved here and many people insist on knowing my connection to Illinois (family? Grew up here?), because people don’t just move to Chicago, according to the locals. [/quote]

It's a great city and beats living in Cleveland. Or Omaha.

But yeah, it's not a global elite city like NYC or DC or LA. And, like it or not, Boston is one of the cities. People anywhere in the world know about it. It's half white-trash American, and half-European in nature. Chicago is just white-bread American normalcy with a nasty urban violence problem.[/quote]

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