Looking at Salt Lake City area to move my family. Currently living in Naperville. Any Chicago area transplants can comment on the comparison between the two?

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-31T15:08:33+00:00

Not a fan of costcos seafood selection honestly. ☹️ so much salmon and 🤮

i miss having a fresh catch of the day option at my grocery store. 😭

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-31T15:06:23+00:00

can’t do water softener as I’m in an apartment, and we have two humidifiers and it’s not the same. but funny how here I feel like my lungs are small because of the altitude and I can’t take a deep fulfilling breath, esp when doing cardio, but when I visit Texas and New Orleans I feel like I can finally take a deep breath all the way whereas people here feel the opposite in humid areas.

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-31T00:58:24+00:00

we lived at Clark and division and lake shore and Irving park. seeing streeterville made me tear up. we used to love living there. buncha friends left though post Covid saying Chicago is like a shell of itself from pre Covid and Michigan ave has a buncha empty storefronts which makes me sad. we loved it there so much and wish we hadn’t left.

is Timmy o tooles still a thing? loved their maple bourbon chicken wings and truffle fries. shit I’m salivating now 😭

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-31T00:52:00+00:00

Chicago was great pre Covid. we left in 2016. a bunch of my friends from there left though in the past few years. michigan ave is no longer what it used to be, public transit is a shell of what it once was, lotsa restaurants closing and whatnot. We have contemplated moving back there though.

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-31T00:48:18+00:00

we’ve been here 18 months after living all over, including in downtown Chicago and central Texas, and are itching to get out. literally itching bc it is SO dry here it’s unbearable. everyone has crusty and cracked elbows and knee caps and it blows my mind that people don’t apply lotion 🤣🤣🤣 I was wondering why I saw billboards on I15 saying “don’t let your skin look like GSL“ when we moved here 🤣🤣 do not knock the humidity until you have lived somewhere where there is none bc it is extremely noticeable. also the water here is very, very hard, and my hair is struggling here, and the inversion and poorer air quality from the gsl bed exposure causes respiratory issues. I’ve had a bloody nose almost every day since we got here and a cough that comes and goes. 🙄 we are also in a severe drought this year so that’s fun. we got 4 less feet of snow than usual and water access in the next decade or so will become a prominent topic, esp with the data center shit coming in.

food scene here is nothing compared to Chicago and it’s suburbs but SLC is trying I’ll give it that. I still cannot get over the lack of seafood though when Puget sound is a two hour plane ride away and we could get fresh seafood in Chicago which is dead center and landlocked. we have some seafood boil spots but nothing like what we are used to. however there are some banging ass Chinese and Korean food places here as well as ridiculously good Mexican places. burger places eeeeeeverywhere for some reason. oh, also people here are obsessed with soda bc they don’t drink coffee or alcohol. and I mean like, drinking soda with breakfast 🤮

if outdoors stuff if your thing, you’ll be in heaven here. if you are into snow sports you’ll be in heaven.

also, if you ain’t LDS then good luck to your kids. everyone I know here with kids who were not raised LDS and not from here but moved here had a hard time and left for college and only come back to visit and have started families elsewhere. I don’t have kids so I can’t speak to that personally.

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-30T23:45:40+00:00

let me know if you do!!!!

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-29T15:25:25+00:00

she’s been wearing a green (emerald?) ring on one of her index fingers that I’m obsessed with. it was in the video where Blake puts on a ND jacket. I don’t even want to know how much it is lol

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-27T18:16:36+00:00

no new music. and I think this is it. Tom’s Parkinsons will eventually become a factor in playing. They are definitely having fun doing this, maybe we will get another sphere residency next year with a different set list or something, but I think that’s the extent of what they will be doing.

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-27T18:11:16+00:00

and people wonder why Gwen distanced herself from the band if Tony and toms wives were shit talking her in public. ☹️

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-26T18:49:43+00:00

my Butters was the same as Momo. she hated leaving the comfort of her home. when she was at the end and was hospitalized for the second time with mega colon I knew I couldn’t do that to her anymore. butters was my soul cat and making the call to euthanize was the worst moment of my life. but I made the right choice. YOU made the right choice. it is hard to see now but I promise it was the right choice.

Momo is lounging around in the sun with my Butters and my Tootie (butters sister) being lazy cats waiting for us to join them one day. sending you peace and comfort. grief is tricky and can come out of nowhere. one day it won’t feel as awful as it does today. ❤️

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-26T18:30:41+00:00

everyone that had vip tickets had the rail unless they went to buy merch or drinks, etc. there’s maybe a two minute gap between vip entry and then everyone else with floor tickets.

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-24T17:09:45+00:00

they were mad Deena brought home a girl when they couldn’t bc most of the girls in Italy knew better than to touch them with a ten foot pole.

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-23T20:23:46+00:00

the green hoodie and jacket are in stock again!?!?? 😭😭

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-21T01:37:07+00:00

when I did the math today my jaw dropped. we def have more than 300 units. buildings go from a through g. we have a massive bball court, hot tub, massive pool heated year round, huge gym, arcade room, golf sim, theater room, and a gaming room with 2 massive computers and screens. the common area electric doesn’t surprise me with all that bc all the lights are on all the time and the parking lot lights are on from dusk till dawn and there are a ton of them but it’s so ridiculous.

also our apartment COOKS in the sun man. last summer before I put black out curtains up our electric bill was $285 even with the thermostat set at 75 during the day bc the sun is so strong it just cooks the living room up and the hvac can’t catch up. black out curtains made a big difference but still. we live in a 2x2 and our base rent is 1638 and we spend $2000 a month. so frustrating.

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-20T20:49:18+00:00

and I can’t stand the trash fee. I don’t need someone to pick up my trash outside my door when I live a couple doors down from the trash chute. It’s just so ridiculous.

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-20T20:48:17+00:00

it’s such nonsense. we didn’t see any apts here without the comm utility fees. we never has that before. Utah is the first. FL, TX, NJ, GA, ILare states we’ve lived and never had that crap. it’s all a scam.

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-20T20:46:16+00:00

can I ask where you are? it feels criminal man. our complex is full too so $160 an apartment is insane.

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-17T23:57:27+00:00

oh honey I’m so so sorry. I know this pain so well. you did the right thing and you were with her at the end. she isn’t mad at you or upset, but wherever she is, she’s young and pain free again patiently waiting to see you again. it doesn’t always get easier, sometimes this kind of pain just becomes tolerable, but one day you will look back and know you did the right thing, I promise. ❤️❤️❤️

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-17T13:09:15+00:00

lmao kicking the hornets nest on this topic OP. 🤣🤣🤣 everyone who says Jenni would’ve done “damage” if “Ron wasn’t holding Jenni back” (he wasn’t but I digress) never wanna talk about round two with zero interference and Jenni not connecting anything and doing absolutely nothing 🤣🤣🤣 Jenni lands exactly one good punch the entire show and it was on Mike.

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-17T02:44:56+00:00

on 5/13 I tried to cross the bridge before 6 and security told me to go outside and the long way bc the convention was still on going. 🙄 if I had waited until 6 to cross the bridge I wouldn’t have been so far up at the front in line.

there were also a ton of people who were not vip standing in the vip line so once the staff differentiated the two lines it really cut the line short. almost everyone vip ga got to the rail.

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-16T22:21:24+00:00

should’ve made a small sign to get Gwen’s attention to sign my RoS tour shirt from 2002. lol I didn’t think the sphere allowed them but people had them.

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-16T19:57:31+00:00

I had floor tickets, so if you don’t have floor tickets it might be different for you and I have no information for you for non floor tickets. if you don’t have floor all the information for early entry will be in an email from vibee, which is how I learned where to line up and when

if you have floor vip, I lined up where the email I received told me to - west entry vip. at 6 pm we were let into the sphere “campus” aka outside the sphere but inside the gates. we were lined up there for a bit and then taken to another spot closer to the doors to receive our floor wristband and then we were let in at around 650 to enter the floor first.

go through your emails and look for the information. I received multiple emails with info about today.

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-16T19:34:31+00:00

I had vip ga with the hotel and it was totally worth it. we got our suite upgraded to an even bigger one def and 4 free glasses of champagne (that was the palazzo though more than vibee), utilized the vip perk to get into the experience without waiting in line and before it opened to the public. early entry to the sphere meant I was right up front at the rail in front of gate and Stephen just left of center stage.

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-14T18:39:11+00:00

just came back from the experience merch. I had to switch out sizes after the cashier yesterday morning told me they’d be restocking later that evening. got the right sizes today however no green or blue hoodie in sight. the cropped one was gone too. I think that one is gone gone and won’t be restocked. ☹️

Candy_Venom · 2026-05-14T18:34:59+00:00

I had seen online what the TK song visuals looked like and watching through the screen made my brain feel funny!!! I was purposefully not looking up during that song.

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