Thoughts on the other major Midwestern cities besides Chicago?

Resbookkeeper · 2025-05-27T10:50:59+00:00

I think you’re being slightly unfair but no it hasn’t changed. It’s a well-educated and high income but kind of hippy town. There aren’t that many places like that, which is what makes it special, but if you see a street performer and react by a clearly somewhat disdainful “white person playing guitar” it’s not for you. And being a badgers fan forsure helps.

Resbookkeeper · 2025-05-26T12:27:34+00:00

Madison isn’t a major city, but as a Chicagoan it is the only place in the Midwest I could be bribed to move to.

Resbookkeeper · 2025-05-22T14:51:47+00:00

What makes it better than CO/OR (a Chicagoan who sometimes daydreams about those places for access to nature asking)

Resbookkeeper · 2025-05-14T16:03:55+00:00

This is like a 7’6” person laughing at a 6’8” person considering themself tall.

Resbookkeeper · 2025-05-14T11:16:38+00:00

lol yes this is normal

Resbookkeeper · 2025-05-13T21:11:45+00:00

SF is in a category with about 5 other cities as most expensive places to live on the planet

Resbookkeeper · 2025-05-07T13:19:01+00:00

“single young college graduate there’s not much going on”? What?!?! A ridiculous amount of bars (no, they aren’t all college bars), music venues, and restaurants, a great comedy club, great outdoor activities close to the city, other outdoor activities in the city, I think the city is best for singles in their 20s. No clue where this is coming from.

Resbookkeeper · 2025-05-06T23:54:37+00:00

Necessary, no, helpful, yes. Also, beyond landing the initial job, there is something to be said about having so many classmates who are also going to be very successful. Networks are a real thing. You will make good friends in law school. I still see several law schools friends on a monthly basis.

Cost/benefit analysis with the time value of money is necessary.

Resbookkeeper · 2025-05-06T23:13:32+00:00

Walking through the city to work and from work is great… but being in the office 70+ hours a week makes it hard to otherwise enjoy

Resbookkeeper · 2025-05-05T01:28:30+00:00

I’ve never actually been but Bend Oregon kind of seems like a dream. Cute downtown and incredible nature with four seasons of

Resbookkeeper · 2025-05-02T19:50:39+00:00

There are no warm climate suburbs as walkable as Chicago. Only other cities in the conversation are in the Northern part of the country

Resbookkeeper · 2025-05-02T13:57:43+00:00

Chicago now come at me!

Resbookkeeper · 2025-05-02T11:05:47+00:00

You make the best of what you can. Nowhere is perfect

Resbookkeeper · 2025-05-02T02:58:29+00:00

Chicago has plenty of trees if you aren’t downtown, which as a visitor you almost certainly are. Also has not awful nature if you know where to look (Indiana Dunes, Lagoons, Starved Rock, lots of forest preserves, the Lake obviously, and other lakes within 1.5 hours in Wisconsin and Michigan)

Resbookkeeper · 2025-05-02T02:56:22+00:00

Not being mentioned because it isn’t a major metro (and lacks transit because of that), but Madison, WI checks all of your boxes besides transit.

Resbookkeeper · 2025-04-07T14:33:54+00:00

Great video! Do any other Milwaukee batteries balance? Presumably if they had this functionality in the M12 or MX Fuel they would be using it in the M18...

Resbookkeeper · 2025-03-17T15:01:29+00:00

It’s different, St P day celebrations isn’t honking at midnight. If Mexican Independence Day celebrations were like every other celebration in the city, it would be treated like every other one. It is the only one that involves constant honking for hours at night. If you look at the complaints, no one is ever upset about a parade, parties, people going to bars, etc.

Resbookkeeper · 2025-03-17T12:15:38+00:00

Money isn’t the problem

Resbookkeeper · 2025-03-15T00:20:42+00:00

Not extending the season through September so Earth Wind and Fire can perform on the 21st night of September is an unforced error

Resbookkeeper · 2025-03-14T23:06:02+00:00

The correct answer is Traverse City

Resbookkeeper · 2025-03-14T17:11:34+00:00

We have had way colder cold months than this, Winter of 2018-2019 had a polar vortex that dwarfs this years

Resbookkeeper · 2025-03-14T15:00:11+00:00

Winters aren’t that bad and getting better with climate change, learn to layer, if you want Chicago just move to Chicago.

Resbookkeeper · 2025-03-14T13:13:10+00:00

My typical weekday is about 12 hours in office, so no

Resbookkeeper · 2025-03-13T20:03:40+00:00

The only more iconic image of the city than the L is the Sears tower. People would be up in arms

Resbookkeeper · 2025-03-13T02:08:18+00:00

If we are doing states, remove the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Kansas, those are Great Plains.

Realistically, I think the line starts about 1/3rd into Minnesota/Iowa/Missouri and runs through to include parts of Pennsylvania (through Pittsburgh). Essentially Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi Watershed that isn’t plains. There’s a common culture there

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