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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fake news. U-pass is not free. All students are nudged into a U-pass and charged a fee for it. And nobody tells you that you must never use it after dark and never use it alone and avoid X Y and Z buses, trains and stops. And then when you're robbed or murdered people will say I can't believe s/he was traveling on X Y Z at x y z hours, i.e. victim blame. And really, don't use it to go downtown (where else would you use it for?), use uber for $30 each way instead to shave off 1/2 the time and not risk death or mugging. But again, Chicago is TOTALLY safe. :roll: [/quote]

I didn’t say the U-Pass was free, I said all UofC students get one and it makes riding the bus and the EL free.  Again, my (affluent but cheap) daughter used hers regularly and wasn’t robbed or murdered while doing so. Nor were any of her friends.

“People will say” is such a Trumpy construction. The faux ventriloquism shtick you’ve got going on here isn’t really responsive to what is actually being said (in this discussion or at UChicago) or done. It’s not hypocrisy (or disingenuousness) when different people say different things. Different kids have different comfort levels* with public transit or cities, kids often travel together (whether by bus or uber), Chicago is large and has lots of different neighborhoods with different attractors. Some destinations are farther than others. And when you’re going out with friends, travel time itself is social time.

If you have a kid that would be overwhelmed by or scared of living in a large diverse city, your kid is unlikely to want to go to UChicago, so this is a non-issue for you. So stop fear-mongering about stuff you obviously know f*ck-all about.

*and kids’ comfort levels may differ from their parents’[/quote]

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