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ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

wiffle ball bat posted:

oh to all the ppl saying we have bad sports teams we have the bulls and the blackhawks soooo

don't forget the bears

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thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
yeah definitely dont forget to add the bears to that list of chicago's bad sports teams

Macnult
Jul 7, 2013

Chicago has some pretty neat tornado sirens from what I've heard.

semicolon
Jun 20, 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECGCoo3Ogxg

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009


Hanging out of an open window and filming that seems like a good choice.

Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW

gently caress da Mods posted:

CHicagos China town is a JOKE LOLOLOLOL

tho its gotten better

btu i really dont leave my neighborhood ever

You live in Chicago? Go figure buddy. Go figure.

AmbientParadox
Mar 2, 2005
I grew up in Chicago on the Southside in Westlawn/Clearing. Was alright I guess. There was the occasional shooting, but we only heard about it after the fact and it usually occurred in the park nearby. I remember never going east of Marquette Park because it was too dangerous / far.

In the late 90s/early 00s, I had no problem walking around my neighborhood during the daytime. Nighttime wasn't too much of a problem, it was more of a 'why would I go walking around outside at night?' Then again, it was a fairly white/mexican neighborhood.

Also, lol if you went to a Chicago public school. Any parent who had any money at all sent their kids to the private Catholic schools because CPS is poo poo.

Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013
Chicago sounds cool... but do you have a listener-supported jazz radio station? (:confused: possibly :smug:)

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine
but how could chicago public schools be bad when cps teachers have like the highest starting salary in the nation and they just raised my rent to pay for their pensions tho???? surely these must be the absolute best schools money can buy turning out bright young geniuses with promising futures.

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

"get in the loving house david" lol

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

OctoberBlues posted:

Hanging out of an open window and filming that seems like a good choice.

To poor for a go pro and a mount in the south side yo

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine
isn't that lincoln park? (one of the) the pasty bro dude parts of town with all the awful sports bars?

Kleen_TheRacistDog
Feb 17, 2014

Can't bust the Krust fuckman
www.skullmund.com
how much money do you have to make/year to live in a 1br in the gold coast? i'm trying to figure something out.

also, what other neighborhoods could a white educated professional move to where they wouldn't be a gentrifier? i wanna go somewhere where i am actual welcome and among my people.

Jalumibnkrayal
Apr 16, 2008

Ramrod XTreme

wiffle ball bat posted:

isn't that lincoln park? (one of the) the pasty bro dude parts of town with all the awful sports bars?

Yeah, Halsted and Diversey.

Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:

how much money do you have to make/year to live in a 1br in the gold coast? i'm trying to figure something out.

A highrise apartment in the Gold Coast can run $1300~/month.

quote:

also, what other neighborhoods could a white educated professional move to where they wouldn't be a gentrifier? i wanna go somewhere where i am actual welcome and among my people.

Hahaha just find a place you like that has a nice commute and be nice to your neighbors.

Pox
Feb 16, 2015

Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:

how much money do you have to make/year to live in a 1br in the gold coast? i'm trying to figure something out.

also, what other neighborhoods could a white educated professional move to where they wouldn't be a gentrifier? i wanna go somewhere where i am actual welcome and among my people.

probably 70 K or upwards I'm guessing.

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine

Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:

how much money do you have to make/year to live in a 1br in the gold coast? i'm trying to figure something out.

also, what other neighborhoods could a white educated professional move to where they wouldn't be a gentrifier? i wanna go somewhere where i am actual welcome and among my people.

you should move anywhere south of randolph and west of damen imo

Kleen_TheRacistDog
Feb 17, 2014

Can't bust the Krust fuckman
www.skullmund.com

Jalumibnkrayal posted:

A highrise apartment in the Gold Coast can run $1300~/month.

Pox posted:

probably 70 K or upwards I'm guessing.

That's surprisingly reasonable and affordable, particularly to live in the nicest part of the city. You can't even get a studio in most decent parts of nyc for that price. And 70k? fugedda-bout-it (as we say in the big apple)

wiffle ball bat posted:

you should move anywhere south of randolph and west of damen imo
Nice try, retard. I'm not some midwestern bumpkin. I'm from industrial north jersey and nyc. I know cities, and I can tell a bad neighborhood from a good one (and without it even seeing it - just by cardinal direction)

Pox posted:

If you live in an expensive neighborhood youre yuppie scum and if you live in a cheap neighborhood youre gentrifying scum. Who cares.
Agreed. However, I'd still rather be yuppie scum. At least I know my place and am not trying to pretend like a can "kick it" with the lower classes, all whilst raising their rents.

Kleen_TheRacistDog fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Oct 13, 2015

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine
stay out of my city bitch ill push you onto the third rail

Pox
Feb 16, 2015
If you live in an expensive neighborhood youre yuppie scum and if you live in a cheap neighborhood youre gentrifying scum. Who cares.

Jalumibnkrayal
Apr 16, 2008

Ramrod XTreme

Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:

That's surprisingly reasonable and affordable, particularly to live in the nicest part of the city.

It's a filthy geriatric neighborhood. The lake is very nice during the summer, but there are much nicer places to live. They don't call it the Viagra Triangle for nothing.

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine
the problem isn't gentrification it's that mexicans are awesome and improve anywhere they live. go open a boutique cupcake and wine cafe in lawndale you unimaginative pricks. pilsen is already gorgeous white devil go home

Kleen_TheRacistDog
Feb 17, 2014

Can't bust the Krust fuckman
www.skullmund.com

wiffle ball bat posted:

the problem isn't gentrification it's that mexicans are awesome and improve anywhere they live. go open a boutique cupcake and wine cafe in lawndale you unimaginative pricks. pilsen is already gorgeous white devil go home

white people fetishizing and lionizing non-white cultures as "exotic others" is very racist, fyi. (something white libs don't like to hear, but it's the tooth)

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine
i don't give a poo poo human being i just want to eat tacos breakfast lunc and dinner

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
1300 seems real low for Michigan ave. what is the north river area downtown? I'd like links to by that poo poo up

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine
oooo aaaaahhhh those exotic and mysterious mexicans, an enigma wrapped inside a crunch brown riddle with mild but tart aguacate salsa

Papal Infallibility
May 7, 2008

Stay Down Champion Stay Down

Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:

also, what other neighborhoods could a white educated professional move to where they wouldn't be a gentrifier? i wanna go somewhere where i am actual welcome and among my people.

The main places being gentrified are Logan Square, Humboldt Park and Pilsen with Logan Square being a terminal case. Gold Coast is really expensive, $1300 isn't very realistic and my friends who lived there paid over $2K but did live in really nice buildings so YMMV. Lincoln Park is as bad if not worse. It sounds like you'd probably be interested in someplace like Lakeview, Andersonville, Bucktown or maybe Ravenswood.

Jalumibnkrayal
Apr 16, 2008

Ramrod XTreme

Darth123123 posted:

1300 seems real low for Michigan ave. what is the north river area downtown? I'd like links to by that poo poo up

I was going off my GF's apartment on outer Lake Shore Drive right near Division, but this was five years ago.

Fuck da Mods
Jun 27, 2013

fina get poz'd? :cabot: :gizz: :baby:
black neighborhood dont get gentrified really

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Papal Infallibility posted:

The main places being gentrified are Logan Square, Humboldt Park and Pilsen with Logan Square being a terminal case. Gold Coast is really expensive, $1300 isn't very realistic and my friends who lived there paid over $2K but did live in really nice buildings so YMMV. Lincoln Park is as bad if not worse. It sounds like you'd probably be interested in someplace like Lakeview, Andersonville, Bucktown or maybe Ravenswood.

2k is closer, but they don't have homeless spikes

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine
kleen you need to be living in bridgeport or wrigleyville or lincoln park or some other yupster trash enclave coated in bro vomit

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine
realistically tho u want a place in uptown where all the white collar dudes who gently caress escorts and vape live u can get a black woman to show you her boobs for $20 while you're ordering a polish

Kleen_TheRacistDog
Feb 17, 2014

Can't bust the Krust fuckman
www.skullmund.com
where are the office buildings located? east of the river inside the loop or west of the river? do people also live in that part of town? i think it would be nice to have like a 2 block walk to work, particularly given the traffic and the cold.

wiffle ball bat posted:

all over the place dude??? which office building in particular??
the big, tall ones, with like giant law firms and investment bankers and stuff like that. the ones where the occupants wear suits to work.

Kleen_TheRacistDog fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Oct 13, 2015

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine
all over the place dude??? which office building in particular??

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine
hola kleen_therowdyperro. chinga tu madre u pinche mercon. ¡orale guey!

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine
that was my peurto rican friend paco. he had a message for you but damned if i can understand that heathen gibberish

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine

Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:

where are the office buildings located? east of the river inside the loop or west of the river? do people also live in that part of town? i think it would be nice to have like a 2 block walk to work, particularly given the traffic and the cold.

the big, tall ones, with like giant law firms and investment bankers and stuff like that. the ones where the occupants wear suits to work.

its called downtown and your scrub rear end can't afford to live there

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine
you could maybe finagle a studio downtown for 1200 but that's not really living

but look bro some paralegal is not going to be able to swing a decent place east of the river don't kid yourself. maybe 5 years ago

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020
A few years ago saw about a dozen cops respond to a pickpocketing on Randolph Street by Millennium Park because God forbid tourists and rich people should have to worry about getting their poo poo stolen

Fuck da Mods
Jun 27, 2013

fina get poz'd? :cabot: :gizz: :baby:

wiffle ball bat posted:

that was my peurto rican friend paco. he had a message for you but damned if i can understand that heathen gibberish

reported. account sharing. enjoy your ban puto

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wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine
Ffffffffffffffuuuu

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