Jesus Christ. Let it go.

How many homeless piss on the Bean every night?

Recent threads here about Chicago always turn into some people saying a few negative things about the place and then certain people desperately defending their miraculous city. Makes me want to throw up.

And I get it, you grew up there. But be real, the city is an embarrassment at the moment. It's a dump. Go cry about it.

lol aren't you in the bat plague hotspot of Phoenix? Glass houses, my man.

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Like MC Hammer, I've been around the world. I've lived in a global city like Rome. I've seen and like what the world has to offer but I choose to reside here.

It's not like I'm approaching it from some unsophisticated perspective.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Yeah I like Ron but that post is just country dumb. You can find good and bad things about literally every city or state in America. Nothing more futile than trying to convince someone their subjective taste in desired living location is wrong.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

It's not really desperate. It's just pointing out that there is more to life than hot weather and everyone knowing your name at Applebee's.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I'm just calling it like I see it. Second City syndrome is very real. Some people here have it.

I'm sorry if you took it that way man.

I wasn't offended. I like Chicago but I don't have any special reverence for it the way someone like dolphin does. But saying it's an embarrassment is like saying a band someone else likes sucks. It's clearly just an opinion that isn't going to convince someone who disagrees that they are wrong. Just seems like a waste of words imo

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Many of the people criticizing Chicago don't live and work in the city. So their opinions are based off news clips. Also, I'm not C_Howitt_Fealz or Antartica nomadding around the world but I've been to MANY cities around the world. Like many other large metropolises Chicago is lovely city with issues. No place is perfect.

Most of these youngsters don't remember what the Loop and Navy Pier looked like in the late 70's and early 80's.

The "theater" district had a decidely different "culture" to it back then.

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Do you think it's likely to return to that state? Will Times Square return to its 70's state as well?

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This reminds me of my ex-girlfriend who came from a Lutheran family but told me that she had studied all the world religions and came to the conclusion that Lutheranism was the best/correct one.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Everybody knows the best religion is atheism.

I think it's more likely then MANY want to believe.

The city, county and state are drowning in debt.

City services cut in NY and Philly. It's just a matter of time.

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I hope you're wrong.

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It's not a bad conclusion. Kinda splits the difference between Catholicism and the rest of Protestantism, it's based in reform and questioning authority, casseroles are plentiful. I'm surprised she didn't settle on Zoroastrianism. The veneration of fire, leaving your dead to be picked away by vultures until it's time to throw their bones down a well, really pretty badass stuff.

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I will just hope.

You have lived in the city your entire life. This must be painful to ponder.

But the bill is coming due for the years of kicking the can down the road.

Cognitive dissonance time is at the end.

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You’re my guy, so don’t take it the wrong way.

It’s like you’re defending a junkie relative.

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You need to open your horizons more. There's more to the world than North Dakota.

I love the band, but I don't like their recent stuff.

That song about the family who doesn't love each other and goes to ride the Ferris wheel at Navy Pier is really shitty.

Nah man.

North Dakota is where it’s at.

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At least Chicago is still a more desirable place to live than San Francisco for now.

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would it be a more valid perspective if I lived in an exurb and vacationed at Sandals resorts?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Chicago is overrated

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

How so? Half the board is saying it's a third world shithole. You think it's even worse?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I am enjoying aggressive Ron Wolfley.

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Eh, board opinion is more like 80% shithole and 20% it's a nice place. Mostly influenced on where you live.