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Originally Posted by Undertoad
40 miles north of the city?
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Am I going to be in a shit-storm of traffic pain commuting from somewhere like Waukeegan to Libertyville?
How is public transportation? I see Metra rail. Is it good*?
It looks like there are toll roads everywhere. Do they have something like EZ-Pass that works at all of them?
I know there's lots of city stuff to do. How about outdoors stuff like hiking?
The cost of living space is high, but nowhere near as high as some other places I've thought about jumping off to (SF, NYC).
I could google some of this, and will later. I'm just stream of consciousing it out here, for now.
I guess I'm also curious about what people like about living there. In Portland people have lists of things they like. Bike-friendly, food cart culture, tolerance, Powell's, friendliness etc. And dislike about it. Number of homeless people, hipsters, etc.
I see Portland as counter-culture. DC as conformist (there are a fair share of counters but they are definitely marginal). NYC as microcosm.
What
is Chicago (to you, to others)? I don't have a good picture for what Chicago is about as a city.
* For the USA.