Just being silly. I lived close to San Francisco (Cupertino) for about six months in my younger days. I don't remember much of those days, but I've visited SF once or twice recently.

I love the city. If I weren't so lazy to move, look for a new job etc, I think I might like the bay area better. But right now, I have no real reason to move.

 

People ding Chicago & midwest all the time, but you certainly can't get the clean crisp unpoluted winter air, direct from the polar region anywhere else in the lower 48, and certainly not anywhere in Cali. Yes it is cold, but going out and taking a deep breath and feeling the clean sub-zero air makes it worth it. It smells & tastes liek nothing else.

You don't get the crunch-crunch-crunch of super cold snow, creaking and groaning under you as you pack it down with your feet. That only happens when the temp is below 0F.

You don't get the ultra quite of a fresh snowfall -- where the falling snow absorbes nearly all the sounds, so that you can't hear cars or buses even a block away.

You don't get the intense bright green of early spring anywhere out west either. It is a color that I wait for every year - just for those few days when the tree leaves start to open up and the fresh grass starts to popup. It is not the green of June, or the brown of August. It is brighter, more intense, but it only last for a short time.

You don't get the smell of fresh lightning-toasted air after a thunder storm in too many places either. I enjoy going out after a storm -- and by storm I mean winds over 60mph, lightning strikes every second & inches of rain -- and smelling the clean, the green, the air, the moisture, the lightning.

Chicago is a real city, with real people, the backbone of the midwest, the transportation hub, the commercial center, the industrial center, where people actually make real things with their real hands -- and don't just push phantom nano-bits through wires, pretending that real work somehow gets done with those bits. It's not virtual. It doesn't dot-bomb. You can touch it. It's made of steel, not software.

It doesn't care about trends or fashon or what's happening on the coasts. That isn't relavent to Chicago. Chicago doesn't need the coasts, the coasts need Chicago.

 

I have never even felt an earthquake and I have been here for 24 years ( we have had them I just could not tell they were there). the sf one was only big cause of the poorly designed bridge. there is far more damage to cars and homes every winter from the wind and weather than the earthquakes we have. now wildfires are another story

 

alright i'm more fond to big cities... so i'm voting Chicago.

altho I do have a thing for cali... san franciso wont do it for me

 

S2-raw ur city is soo weak juss give it up. Chicago is bigger. We got much larger skyline. Take ur smallcity BS somewhere else. Ohh wow a pyramid shaped building? We have two that were at certain points the tallest in the world.

 

When u wanna go shoppin u don't go to San Francisco??? More like Chicago for Michigan Ave.

 

BTW, we got the Cubs...one of MLBs only teams that has fans all over the world.

...and for the record, Jankemi's post gets a quick "highlight", right-click, copy and past into a Word document.

I liked the write up quite a bit, actually.

 

Well, I think 2Pac said it best when he said:

CALIFORNIA LOVE!!!

 

What about NEW YORK!

 

What about it?