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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don’t want things fast paced, don’t move to DC. I moved from DC to Chicago area and people are painfully slow. School drop off, buying coffee, dealing with people… everything is really slow and dopey and inefficient. And when I lived in DC (moved from the northeast, I thought THAT was slow. But compared to Chicagoland, people and service in DC are quick. [/quote]

That's Midwestern culture. School dropoff, Starbucks, and local restaurants were always social events. When I was growing up in Chicago, my parents would go to this family-friendly restaurant to talk to the neighbors while I would play video games in the attached arcade with the other kids. "Time to pack up and say goodbye" meant that was a 30-minute warning while my parents "said their goodbyes." My stepmother in Caribou Coffee would be a multi-hour event, despite "I'll be gone for 20 minutes to get a latte." I personally liked it. And I got my first job in high school because of people just talking to me.

Look up Charlie Berens's "Midwestern Goodbye" on Youtube and then extrapolate that to every time you leave the house, and that's social life in the Chicago suburbs. (Charlie Berens is from Wisconsin, so just insert "da Bears" whenever he says "de Packers" and you won't be too far off from my parents' life in the 1990s)  [/quote]

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