Quote Originally Posted by nocturnalVX View Post
DUUUUDE! How can you get to know your neighbors in the Midwest when very few of them speak English? I moved out of a condo complex because I felt like I was in an east block country and now that I finally moved into a "nice neighborhood", neighbors on one side still don't speak English and the neighbors on the other side are gold medalist A-holes. The house two doors down is renting out every room in their house, the garage is converted into another apartment, and they're trashing the block (piling up dog crap in the alley, cigarettes, beer cans, fast food trash, did I mention they have 8 or so different cars that they can't park on their own property)... yeah... Midwesterners are the BEST!!!
There you have it folks. Another Chicagoan who feels the same way. I got SOOOO SICK of EXACTLY what Gill is talking about after living in the city for nearly 10 years. It's just TOO MUCH. Leaving that place was a MONUMENTAL LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE. But you know, Chicago has some nice suburbs, if you can afford them and don't mind commuting for 3 hours a day.

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