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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chicago is where middle class kids in Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan dream of moving after college.

Once in Chicago for a few years, many ambitious yuppies seek a move to a coast, or Denver, Nashville, Austin, or Florida.

Chicago wears on you.[/quote]

This is spot on.

I grew up in SW Michigan and moved to Chicago the minute I had the chance at 19. It is my favorite city to this day, but after living there for 10 years -- it wore on me. That is a very good way to put it. The long winters; the cold and also how well into spring I'd be walking up and down State St or Mich Ave dodging the high piles of iced over snow (for those unfamiliar those piles are from the plows) now black-gray with exhaust and yellow with dog urine. The crime. At 29 I went law school in the South, and then after graduating I moved here to take a job as an HP attorney.

Now I'm sick enough of it here -- the stupid hcol and the boring strivers that don't understand they are on top of the bell -- that I could consider moving back to Chicago. But my DH hates the cold, so that is out. [/quote]

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