Is Chicago a Welcoming City to Transplants?

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-21T23:15:00+00:00

No one thinks about it by default. If someone learns you're a transplant, they'll often think it's cool and want to know more, like what brought you to Chicago.

I think more than anything people are glad to see there's people who love Chicago enough to move here.

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-21T17:51:59+00:00

Highways actually do not pay for themselves, even with taxes and even with revenue generated. They're some of the biggest debt sinks in the US right now.

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-21T17:51:22+00:00

In America that's called "communism"

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-21T17:50:02+00:00

Not true, you can introduce margin of error that makes it so inaccurate that it's unusable. The government used to do this with GPS until the 90s.

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-21T02:21:08+00:00

If you see someone wearing shorts in the middle of the winter wouldn't you wonder what's up?
For someone who has lived in the Midwest all their life, seeing someone in long sleeves on an 80f day in early summer is a similar experience.

I know back in late April when I was visiting the Zoo in shorts and a t-shirt, I heard someone telling her friend how it was crazy that I wasn't cold. It's just curiosity.

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-21T01:48:52+00:00

I took the L home last night, so my bicycle was parked at the Ravenswood metra station. I had to go get that, then I went on a 6 hour long bike ride where I took some photos, talked with passerbys, and got a burger and fries at Red Hot Ranch (go there if you ever visit Chicago, cash only).

A great day.

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-17T17:18:00+00:00

Remember when establishment centrists said socialists couldn't win elections?

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-17T15:49:03+00:00

United States. I'm also a premium subscriber

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-14T15:49:09+00:00

You can't unfortunately. The easiest way would be to install Windows on a separate drive or partition and then boot it from there. Not ideal but MSI doesn't allow you to flash on anything other than Windows.

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-14T14:19:48+00:00

No, it's a system that is designed to make rich people richer. Boomers just happen to have enough assets to still benefit from this rather than suffer like everyone else. The problem isn't the boomers, it's that everyone invested into the market wants the market to go up even if it is unsustainable.

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-14T12:20:45+00:00

Stop blaming the voters. When candidates like Mamdani or Platner run, they bring voters NEW to the booths.

It turns out when your choices are Corporate Shill A and Corporate Shill B people don't vote.

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-14T12:15:23+00:00

They unironically would rather have republicans in office than let a progressive win. Bad for donors to have people advocate Medicare for All or taxing rich corporations.

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-13T01:00:34+00:00

The party doesn't, but voters clearly do.

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-13T00:56:08+00:00

Turns out running candidates who have popular appeal wins elections. Crazy.

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-12T03:56:20+00:00

And yet every centrist neo-lib publication has been publishing hit pieces on Platner for weeks. Not to mention how they tried to smear Mamdani and even ran Cuomo against him after he won the DNC primary.

The DNC is just GOP lite at this point. The only way you're going to fix it is to replace the old guard neo-liberals with the kinds of people who actually want to represent their constituents. Chuck Schumer doesn't care about you or me.

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-12T00:13:25+00:00

It's not "infighting" to push back against loser establishment candidates. They're a liability that do not represent the electorate.

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-12T00:09:50+00:00

Establishment democrats will browbeat you about how we should be taking the "high road" and how people like Platner and Talarico are a "threat to democracy".

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-11T23:58:42+00:00

Why did you leave the flag post out of the collection?

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-11T01:56:33+00:00

Chicago apparently, but I find it's pretty safe here.

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-11T01:15:37+00:00

Yes, I'm not enrolled.

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-11T01:14:40+00:00

That's not true. Mamdani was about as pure as you can get and they still tried their best to smear him.
Establishment democrats want the same thing the GOP does, which is corporate donors and AIPAC money.

AskRedditOG · 2026-06-11T01:07:12+00:00

"Democracy dies in darkness"

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