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> apartment rent is around 600 - 1000 a month You can't really use this as an "advantage" since it disappears rapidly once it starts become a tech hub.

• Eire_Banshee 9y ago
  Meh, it doesn't have the geographic limits that you get on the coast. The only geographical feature hemming in the city is the lake. You have essentially unlimited space to expand in all other directions. It would be hard to get skyrocketing rents outside of the immediate downtown area. But mostly Chicago just sucks. Its all the shitty parts of the midwest without any of the good ones. What you really want is Indianapolis, Columbus, Minneapolis, Louisville, etc...
  • rayiner 9y ago
    > But mostly Chicago just sucks. Its all the shitty parts of the midwest without any of the good ones. What you really want is Indianapolis, Columbus, Minneapolis, Louisville, etc... Shameful Indianapolis trolling.
    • Eire_Banshee 9y ago
      I stand by what I said.
  • justin66 9y ago
    > What you really want is Indianapolis, Columbus, Minneapolis, Louisville, etc... There's something you don't hear every day.
• ryuker16 9y ago
  We have a lot of excess housing stock from the rust belt days and can build a lot more towers(not sitting on fault lines).
  • patio11 9y ago
    Tokyo waves hello and says, in a friendly but firm tone of voice, that the decision to not built up is political and not based on earthquake-resistant buildings being an engineering technology humanity lacks access to.
• tptacek 9y ago
  It is extremely unlikely that any amount of tech investment in Chicago would make 1000/mo apartments hard to find. Chicago is enormous, and has underinvested, relatively low-density neighborhoods stretching for multiples of the dimensions of San Francisco. Logan Square apartments would get more expensive, but the market would respond to that the way it did with Lincoln Park, Wicker Park, Bucktown, and Ukranian Village: by gentrifying westward into Humboldt Park, Hermosa, and Belmont-Cragin.