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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't even lived in Chicago and visited from the DMV once a few years ago pre-pandemic. There was a coffee shop across from our hotel, and the barista would say some version of, "Welcome back! Great to see you again, what can I get for you this morning?" I was just so stunned, in a good way. Nobody in NOVA was ever that nice in the ten years I lived there, certainly nobody ever said "welcome back". Everyone was just so nice. It was hard to come back to the DMV![/quote]

+1. Chicagoland really is a whole other level of normalcy. You don't realize just how toxic and unnecessarily rude people are out east until you spend some time in the Midwest. And Chicago really does offer the best of both worlds in that it's Midwestern and friendly, but also a huge, cultured, historic city.[/quote]

I moved from DC/NOVA to Chicagoland and am shocked at how uneducated and vacant people are. I'm not a snob and I thought it would be nice to get away from some of the NOVA snottiness, but man sometimes I miss people not being dimwitted and clueless.[/quote]

I don't find this to be true in the slightest.[/quote]

Same.  I went to Northwestern (years ago); the biggest difference was that people were much less concerned with international (and even national) politics, but that’s about it.  The DC area is absurdly highly-educated, so Chicagoland doesn’t have the same concentration of PhD/intellectual types, but there are just so many different people there.  If you can handle the cold, you can find your people there.  I miss it so much and would move back in a heartbeat, but we’re pretty settled here.[/quote]

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