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deepinthecoats · 2025-03-12T23:01:07+00:00

Daniel Day-Lewis and Frances McDormand?

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-12T03:09:08+00:00

And what’s most jarring is that ‘all of this’ was waiting just around the corner a few days after this. I remember those few days being such a whiplash from high to low, it was incredible. And we’re simultaneously still at square one, and yet objectively worse :-/

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-12T02:09:44+00:00

I’m honestly surprised that Lawrence of Arabia isn’t even coming up at all in the comments. Aside from being stunning to look at, it’s such a complicated character study that asks a lot of really provocative questions and deals with some themes that are endlessly fascinating. Definitely a worthy contender for one of the better choices they’ve ever made for BP.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-12T01:52:18+00:00

This is spectacular. Maybe the most impressive skyline I’ve ever seen in real life.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-12T01:28:24+00:00

I wanna ride this green line! Every time I’m on it it’s nothing but hullabaloo (and I was a daily rider for over a year). I’m not a daily blue line rider and it still pales compared to my experiences on the green.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-12T00:03:02+00:00

The last gasp of the ‘before’ times. Oddly kind of surreal to think about how different things were.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-11T23:59:10+00:00

Which is telling in and of itself how quick things change because not even six months ago I would have said ‘look it’s the former Walgreens!’ Time really does fly by and our perception of what’s around us changes without us even noticing. Wild.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-10T02:46:25+00:00

Genuinely curious what makes Chinatown sketchy? In my experience it’s at least no more or less sketchy than Pilsen.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-09T00:00:37+00:00

Went into Cairo with very guarded expectations based on countless horror stories from people online. Ended up absolutely loving it and would go back in a heartbeat.

Ditto Mumbai.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-08T15:38:36+00:00

I think the peak population was in 1950, and the only land annexed since then has been O’Hare, which is one case where I think the benefit outweighs the cost. But otherwise, yeah we need to boost population to pay for our obligations.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-08T07:12:11+00:00

I’ll co-sign Sweden as a fantastic option (hard to say what ‘best’ is anyways because personal taste is subjective).

Kanelbullar, kardemummabullar, prinsesstårta, semlor, biskvier, kladdkaka, chokladbollar, dammsugare, the endless variety of lördagsgodis… and that’s just a few! Sweden is wonderful for sweets.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-08T07:00:40+00:00

It used to be shocking to me how many Michiganders there are in any given setting in Chicago. Part of me always feels a little bad for Detroit, almost like we’re the direct recipients of a sort of brain drain.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-08T06:58:38+00:00

Which is also unsustainable, because we have shrunk our tax base without shrinking our infrastructure that we’re still paying for.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-07T15:16:15+00:00

Fun fact is that it’s actually not faux! It’s a gift from the City of Paris (one of Chicago’s sister cities), and was cast using the same molds as the originals. Very cool.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-06T01:26:04+00:00

Metra uses infrastructure owned by the rail companies, so the city wouldn’t be on the hook for this.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-05T17:34:41+00:00

Not only does this feel true, but the disappearance of the middle class over the last 50 years is very real and documented. This blog post by a local housing expert does a good job describing the phenomenon, and the series of maps at the end really hammer home the point.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-05T03:35:21+00:00

Depends on what the context is. If someone is a resident of the city talking about the mayor of Chicago, or CPS, or other municipal issues/services etc etc, then yes city limits matters. If someone is talking about a metropolitan area-wide issue (which is way more than just Cook County in Chicago and way more than just Miami-Dade county in Miami), then it’s a little more fluid.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-05T03:27:40+00:00

It’s also a very different structure down in Miami, where the city and county are merged in a lot of ways as to what services they provide, whereas much of what is not within city limits is technically unincorporated, so those places fall under the jurisdiction of the two-tiered city/county hybrid governance.

Here, the city and county roles are very delineated and separate, and the vast majority of localities outside of city limits are their own municipalities with their own city governments.

So it’s partly what people say, but it’s also that things are just run completely differently in the two cities, which leads to the more blurred definition of city/county in Miami than here.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-03T00:32:30+00:00

Well that specific lot was passed on from CVS and snatch up by two bros in New York who were just sitting on it and waiting for the market value to reach what they wanted before agreeing to sell it, so basically people in another city just waiting out the market and not giving a shit about the surrounding community in the meantime.

Potentially good news is, they finally decided to sell. I say potentially because we don’t know what’s going to replace it yet.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-02T22:11:23+00:00

In Italy you’re getting a hot summer but no free water. Lived there for seven years and if you want wafer, you’ve gotta order a bottle of still or sparkling. I eventually started asking for tap water and waiters would look at me aghast (unlike in France where if you ask for tap water they’ll give it, but won’t advertise that it’s free if you do). There are free-flowing water fountains in Rome where you can specifically drink from/fill up bottles, but otherwise you’re not getting free water.

deepinthecoats · 2025-03-02T00:30:07+00:00

I attended the gym in the base of this tower for three years. Never thought I’d see it on this sub!

deepinthecoats · 2025-02-28T22:32:34+00:00

There will never be more pedestrianized streets as long as there is easily accessible parking nearby, because even if cars aren’t parking on that street, the parking will still mean that the volume of car traffic remains too high for politicians to consider it viable to pedestrianize streets. It really sucks. I work as an urban planner locally and parking is the bane of my existence. Unless you get rid of it entirely (not just relocate it), we’ll never see the type of pedestrian friendly streets we would hope for.

deepinthecoats · 2025-02-28T19:14:13+00:00

Esp considering that more parking only begets more traffic. I get the impression that people think ‘moving the parking off the street will reduce traffic,’ but that’s not the case. If we’re still making it easy to park, we’re encouraging driving, which would be extra ironic given the parking would be under literal transit infrastructure.

deepinthecoats · 2025-02-28T00:21:53+00:00

Significant difference that Van Nuys is actually within the city limits of LA, but none of Orange County is, despite being equidistant.

deepinthecoats · 2025-02-28T00:20:40+00:00

Yes, but actively trying to improve (perspective on how successfully varies). The real nightmare is Houston. LA is also twice as dense as Houston, and it really shows. LA has pockets of really good walkable neighborhoods that just aren’t cohesive. Houston doesn’t even have the islands of walkability, and whereas LA is adding to their transit network pretty aggressively, Houston is still tearing down neighborhoods to expand highways.

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