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I never think about Chicago.
Spoken like a true West Coast native.
East coast my whole life. I never think about Chicago.
Well that's just mean
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.
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.
Wait does that mean you consider Atlanta the east coast?
West coast best coast.
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.
I agree!
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.
I live in Chicago and I think about Gary a lot.
No one warned you about Gary beforehand, I presume
Everybody that leaves Chicago can't stop thinking about it.
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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.
Chicago was also important in blues.