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The weather comment cannot be stated enough: this is a large factor in what makes or breaks Chicago as a viable home. Expect to have varying degrees of "cold" w
by thrdOriginal 17y ago
The weather comment cannot be stated enough: this is a large factor in what makes or breaks Chicago as a viable home. Expect to have varying degrees of "cold" weather from Oct/Nov to the beginning of May. Also, Chicago is an absolute mecca for everything Big 10. This tends to give a lot of the 20-something places to go out a very frat-ish feel (being a big city there are other choices, but it is something to be aware of, good or bad).
- tptacek 17y agoIf you're not OK with weather that will keep you indoors for about 2 solid months, Chicago isn't viable. I actually like the harsh weather; for 2 months of the year, I have excuse for being a homebody, and I can cook more seasonally. I really missed the seasons when I was in California. I strongly disagree with your frat-boy/big-10 comment. Chicago is a massive city. Like every other big city, it has hipster enclaves (Uky Village, Bucktown, Logan Square), and it has yuppie/frat-boy enclaves (Lincoln Park); it has 2+(2*.5) viable college towns (Hyde Park, Evanston, and UIC and Loyola campuses), a large Chinatown, the sizeable Thai/Vietnamese area around Argyle, the Indian drag on Devon, huge Latino areas and innumerable family neighborhoods. I'm not giving the cop-out "you were just in the wrong bar" answer here: I'm saying, you must have been very unlucky to have only found sports bars. I'm pretty sure they never play Bears games at Publican or Violet Hour.