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[-] kibblebits@quokk.au 25 points 1 day ago

I never think about Chicago.

[-] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago

I've been there twice, only once by choice, and I think about Seattle more than Chicago.

Hell I think about Gary Indiana more than Chicago.

[-] deacon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I live in Chicago and I think about Gary a lot.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

No one warned you about Gary beforehand, I presume

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Spoken like a true West Coast native.

[-] Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago

East coast my whole life. I never think about Chicago.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago
[-] Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 0 points 1 day ago

I didn’t mean it like that! Tbf I grew up in Atlanta and am blown away nobody even mentioned it. My first thought was DC instead of Chicago.

[-] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Wait does that mean you consider Atlanta the east coast?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A lot of US cities are special for their own reasons! I love Atlanta and am well overdue for another visit. It's just hard to rank cities with any real objective criteria.

[-] kibblebits@quokk.au 8 points 1 day ago
[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

You're not wrong, but Chicago has a lot to offer, and not just for their fabulous pies and comedy incubation. It's not Cleveland, for Christ's sake.

Everybody that leaves Chicago can't stop thinking about it.

[-] kibblebits@quokk.au 7 points 1 day ago

People in abusive relationships often have flashbacks

[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Honestly me too. I think a big part of it is cultural. With LA you have Hollywood, skate culture, and a music scene that dominated the last 3 decades or so, etc, and NYC, well, it's NYC. For a while Chicago was the center of the jazz world when jazz was the mainstream, but that was probably over a hundred years ago. I hear Chicago's nice, but that's basically all I hear, I really don't know what goes on over there these days compared to a lot of other American cities.

[-] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Chicago was also important in blues.

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