Too Cold, **** Chicago Suburbs.

[Nail Polish]

Fuckin Mexican food down here is horrible...Any ethnic food is hard to find..I found one Italian deli though. Don't let anyone bullshit you about how great southern cooking is...Buy a can of Crisco, and you're a southern chef..lol...Sans Louisianna however. They have great food

 

[Scoot26]

But your property taxes are higher than Naples Florida, yet no beach.

You do have better restaurants though, I can't even find good Mexican food...in a town chock full of Mexicans.:lol:

I also have zero desire to live anywhere near the South. While I don't enjoy this sub below weather, I dont so much mind cold. But if I could live anywhere without money being an object, I'd live in the Pacific Northwest.

 

[Mitchapalooza]

I need to get the **** out of Mt. Greenwood. Everybody here is content with mediocrity. I hate it.

 

[Flacco4Prez]

LOL come up to Minnesota. Chicago is weak shit after being up here. -5 degrees out in the middle of the day, and I walk 30-45 min a day to class. It's not so bad when you can drive everywhere, but walking is terrible. And as for your women comment, you can't even see their faces or any other part for that matter when they have scarves and multiple layers. Midwestern life is the hard life. I didn't choose the hard life, the hard life chose me.

 

[FatBabiesHaveNoPride]

But if you mention good restaurants and 'the casino' in the same sentence, I guess that describes the sophistication of your palate!>>>

"Name any ethnic cuisine and I can name a restaurant in Chicago proper that is fucking amazing."

Kindly re-read opening statement, I said suburbs. I use cream cheese in my hollandaise sauce as opposed to dry mustard...that is the difference between Chicago downtown etc and the suburbs.

Which suburb? Obviously the restaurants in the burbs aren't as good as the city, but there are gems to be found. I'm a huge foodie and do a lot of restaurant shit for business and in the burbs alone - from Schaumburg to Highland Park to Batavia, I can name great Mexican, Viet, Sushi, Puerto Rican, BBQ, Thai, Indian and Cuban. Hell, there's a little joint in Barlett that is the only Guatemalan restaurant in all of Chicagoland - and it's awesome.

So, yes, the burbs are not even close in terms of quality and quantity of awesome restaurants, but they are there if you look.

 

[FatBabiesHaveNoPride]

For me, it was never about the cold...it was about months and months and months of gloom. Constant gray skies. Slush mixed with dirt. Dark when you go to work, dark when you get home. It's like a blanket of depression that drapes over the entire area for god damn nearly half the year. I'm pretty sure I have a diagnosable condition to be honest....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder . I've heard light therapy works, but **** all that. It was 84 and sunny here today.

That's the hardest part. Yes it's cold, but yesterday for example. I get out of meeting at 4pm. 4pm. And it's already pitch black. By the time I got home 45 minutes later, it felt like it was fucking midnite. That's what sucks.

Oh and add to the fact that it kills life. Yes, people out now because of Christmas hussle, but places are a ghost town on a Friday in January because everyone 'nests' when its so cold. **** that. I like a nice Thursday summer night - whether it's Lincoln Park or a 'busy' suburban 'downtown' - Naperville, Highland Park, Geneva, LaGrange - seeing goddamn life!

 

[Sunbiz1]

Which suburb? Obviously the restaurants in the burbs aren't as good as the city, but there are gems to be found. I'm a huge foodie and do a lot of restaurant shit for business and in the burbs alone - from Schaumburg to Highland Park to Batavia, I can name great Mexican, Viet, Sushi, Puerto Rican, BBQ, Thai, Indian and Cuban. Hell, there's a little joint in Barlett that is the only Guatemalan restaurant in all of Chicagoland - and it's awesome.

So, yes, the burbs are not even close in terms of quality and quantity of awesome restaurants, but they are there if you look.

Elgin, where Chicago's best doesn't bother reviewing restaurants. There is a good Thai place here, but generally I have to go to either Dundee or St. Charles for a decent meal.

 

[nickofypres]

Not much warmer here in NW Ohio.

But, I would deal with cold in exchange for living in Chicagoland.

 

[Sunbiz1]

LOL come up to Minnesota. Chicago is weak shit after being up here. -5 degrees out in the middle of the day, and I walk 30-45 min a day to class. It's not so bad when you can drive everywhere, but walking is terrible. And as for your women comment, you can't even see their faces or any other part for that matter when they have scarves and multiple layers. Midwestern life is the hard life. I didn't choose the hard life, the hard life chose me.

you can't even see their faces or any other part for that matter when they have scarves and multiple layers. >>>

>>>Is this a good or bad thing up there?.

 

[FatBabiesHaveNoPride]

Elgin? Dude you've got some great Mexican restaurants there. El Farro. Hell half of Elgin is Mexican

You also have Delicia Tropical, an awesome Puerto Rican restaurant with great mofongo

For great sushi, you've got swordfish in Batavia. For thai, there's vino Thai in st Charles and Bangkok in Geneva.

For Mexican, you've got three great places all a few blocks away in Geneva - Bien Trucha, Altiro and El Molcajete

For hearty soups and shit you've got Town House Books in st Charles

It's there if you want it!

 

[Iwritecode]

I don't live in the suburbs but the cold northern Illinois weather still affects me and I hate it. Most of my family is in the general mid-west area and due to a number of choices and circumstances, I'm pretty much stuck here as well.

Unless I happen to win the mega-millions, I don't foresee leaving any time soon. Although even then, I would only have to leave the house when I really wanted to and not have to brave the weather to get to a job everyday. So even if I become a millionaire, I still might stay just to remain close to friends and family. Or I would just buy another house or two somewhere warm and just do the snow-bird thing.

 

[DC]

HAHA!

http://thedeliciousday.com/traveling/the-best-city-in-the-united-states/

 

[Nail Polish]

HAHA!

http://thedeliciousday.com/traveling/the-best-city-in-the-united-states/

We looked at property in Ft Garland Colo. There was a log home community going up..It was gorgeous, but it was just TOO remote. People would get to a real grocery store once a month....lol

 

[HeHateMe]

I'd have no problem with remote. In the winter we do one shop a month for food, supplies. Doing that for the last few years. Have to plan, get creative when you want something you didn't plan for. It's a good exercise imo.

 

[Nail Polish]

I'd have no problem with remote. In the winter we do one shop a month for food, supplies. Doing that for the last few years. Have to plan, get creative when you want something you didn't plan for. It's a good exercise imo.

You will look at things differently when youre 60...If a grocery store is 100 miles or so away, so is a hospital

 

[HeHateMe]

Well I guess that is an entirely different argument than the one you made, but I still say, meh.

:shrug:

Also, sorry for picking on you so much.

#elderscrolls

#ifeelbadman

 

[Nail Polish]

What argument? Once again, you make no sense

 

[HeHateMe]

What argument? Once again, you make no sense

Remote=grocery store once a month

Remote=no hospital

 

[Nail Polish]

Youre gonna have to explain yourself, cause I have no idea what you mean..

yes..I said this..

"You will look at things differently when youre 60...If a grocery store is 100 miles or so away, so is a hospital"



So where did I contradict myself? Are you drunk?

 

[Tjodalv]

You people make my penis itchy.

But at least things in here are more pleasant than that stupid fucking shit-storm over in the Bears forum. I'm seriously thinking about not going in there until next season so I don't have to see any more repetitions of the same god damn Cutler/McCown thread. Maybe I'll just wander over for game-day threads. Seriously, 4 out of the top 10 active threads over there right now are the same arguments stated over and over again (and that's counting a jersey spam thread in there). I just don't understand people some times.