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Why is Chicago so affordable compared to NYC/DC/LA/SF?

You can buy a huge condo in a great part of town for 500-600...
Sooty mental disorder university
  02/17/19
Murders free up units.
Painfully honest space
  02/17/19
...
Chartreuse cracking elastic band
  02/17/19
Chicago has had a declining population for a long time.
lime trailer park
  02/17/19
MAGA country?
Balding soul-stirring depressive point
  02/17/19
Chicago has more in common with Detroit than NYC
maniacal organic girlfriend
  02/17/19
i've read before that there's relatively less red tape on de...
Maize mentally impaired office
  02/17/19
not true w/r/t what is called "affordable housing"...
nubile native
  02/18/19
i spent a terrible winter in north chicago while in the navy...
thriller pearl mother school cafeteria
  02/17/19
Why the fuck is the navy in Chicago?
Balding soul-stirring depressive point
  02/17/19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red
Maize mentally impaired office
  02/17/19
boot camp and training center there for many many decades......
thriller pearl mother school cafeteria
  02/17/19
officer? im trying to go intel
Contagious sanctuary knife
  02/17/19
no, enlisted right out of high school as a navy nuke power p...
thriller pearl mother school cafeteria
  02/17/19
nice, did u work at a nuke power plant after or do something...
Contagious sanctuary knife
  02/17/19
nope, I got out of it when young...i thought nuke power was ...
thriller pearl mother school cafeteria
  02/17/19
They have space. Also cold AF.
Concupiscible whorehouse
  02/17/19
if they actually do have notably more virgin RE available fo...
cobalt cruel-hearted brethren locus
  02/17/19
when you drive out of downtown to the airport you see how mu...
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  02/17/19
no one fucking wants to live there unless they have some con...
motley garnet jewess orchestra pit
  02/17/19
why is that a problem
maniacal organic girlfriend
  02/17/19
? I have a decent amount of friends who moved to Chicago aft...
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  02/17/19
having lived in 3 of those, i can say that living in cities ...
galvanic crimson base digit ratio
  02/17/19
I mean, this is not a bad thing.
Henna fantasy-prone newt quadroon
  02/17/19
(Lee Miglin)
zippy associate
  02/18/19
half the city looks like its part of the USSR in wartime
galvanic crimson base digit ratio
  02/17/19
one of the dumbest questions asked on xoxo
Hyperventilating lodge
  02/17/19
Gtfo instead of wasting your time here then
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  02/17/19
jerry and george together: niggers
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...
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  02/17/19
...
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  02/17/19
[Guy who has never been to Chicago]
Light Institution
  02/17/19
this lol
Hyperventilating lodge
  02/17/19
...
razzmatazz pink idiot
  02/17/19
It's more pleasant to visit than SF, LA or DC
angry dun roast beef milk
  02/17/19
Whats the overseas chinese % there
Mind-boggling flirting resort
  02/17/19
because the tax situation in IL is so awful you'd have to be...
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  02/17/19
Not geographically constricted, declining population, and hi...
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  02/17/19
property taxes are already very high. they are going to get...
maniacal organic girlfriend
  02/17/19
I get depressed living in NY because DeBlasio and Cuomo, etc...
Concupiscible whorehouse
  02/17/19
it's more brazen, but for far lower stakes and $$ amounts. t...
nubile native
  02/18/19
great poast. if i were in chicago i'd buy land and assets...
Hyperventilating lodge
  02/17/19
How the hell did he win?
angry dun roast beef milk
  02/17/19
Chicago basically controls all the state politics, similar t...
Clear deep circlehead nursing home
  02/17/19
the republican governor was unpopular and would have lost ag...
maniacal organic girlfriend
  02/17/19
He ran against the worst republican governor in the world.
Plum Aphrodisiac Affirmative Action Business Firm
  02/17/19
it's a mystery. when i was younger downstate actually served...
nubile native
  02/18/19
curious, how could downstate serve as a check, population-wi...
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  02/18/19
Living standards peaking in classical Greece in 4th century ...
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  02/17/19
What does Chicago offer over a city like Buffalo???
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  02/17/19
the Buffalo Wild Wings in Chicago are some of the best in th...
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  02/17/19
i used to fuck a married gal named pam who came from the sou...
thriller pearl mother school cafeteria
  02/17/19
chicago is better than any city in texas except maybe austin
maniacal organic girlfriend
  02/17/19
nigger
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  02/17/19
starts with an n
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...
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  02/18/19
Because it’s a borin, flat, blue-collar, cultureless, ...
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  02/17/19
chicago has first-rate high culture. the funny thing is t...
nubile native
  02/18/19


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Date: February 17th, 2019 11:43 AM
Author: Sooty mental disorder university

You can buy a huge condo in a great part of town for 500-600K. lol at what that buys in other big cities.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796546)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 11:44 AM
Author: Painfully honest space

Murders free up units.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796549)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:01 PM
Author: Chartreuse cracking elastic band



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796669)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 11:45 AM
Author: lime trailer park

Chicago has had a declining population for a long time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796554)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 11:53 AM
Author: Balding soul-stirring depressive point

MAGA country?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796612)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 11:59 AM
Author: maniacal organic girlfriend

Chicago has more in common with Detroit than NYC

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796658)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:02 PM
Author: Maize mentally impaired office

i've read before that there's relatively less red tape on development in chicago compared to those other places (at least DC/NYC/SF, dunno about LA)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796674)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 1:42 AM
Author: nubile native

not true w/r/t what is called "affordable housing" for "hard working families"

we also chased the george lucas museum away, so there's that

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37800390)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:02 PM
Author: thriller pearl mother school cafeteria

i spent a terrible winter in north chicago while in the navy...right on the lake shore...bad winters there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796675)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:04 PM
Author: Balding soul-stirring depressive point

Why the fuck is the navy in Chicago?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796681)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:05 PM
Author: Maize mentally impaired office

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796687)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:05 PM
Author: thriller pearl mother school cafeteria

boot camp and training center there for many many decades...don't know why there in particular...anyway, I was first in my class there for electronics tech, phase 2...read em and weep...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796688)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 1:12 PM
Author: Contagious sanctuary knife

officer? im trying to go intel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796972)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 1:28 PM
Author: thriller pearl mother school cafeteria

no, enlisted right out of high school as a navy nuke power plant reactor operator/electronics tech...left as an e-5

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37797062)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 4:01 PM
Author: Contagious sanctuary knife

nice, did u work at a nuke power plant after or do something different?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37797805)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 4:20 PM
Author: thriller pearl mother school cafeteria

nope, I got out of it when young...i thought nuke power was done because of the sentiment against it..big mistake

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37797931)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:02 PM
Author: Concupiscible whorehouse

They have space. Also cold AF.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796676)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:15 PM
Author: cobalt cruel-hearted brethren locus

if they actually do have notably more virgin RE available for development, this seems like the right answer,

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796717)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 1:03 PM
Author: rambunctious awkward mad-dog skullcap

when you drive out of downtown to the airport you see how much land there really is. there almost no reason to have those big skyscrapers. unlike MFH or SF or something. It's just flat until the rockies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796939)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:31 PM
Author: motley garnet jewess orchestra pit

no one fucking wants to live there unless they have some connection to the midwest, i never ever fucking heard an educated person say "oh i want to go move to fucking chicago for BIGLOL!"

its all NYC for sex and city shrew sluts, boston for school at least, DC for pol, LA if you are a faggot or loser, SF is you are tech nerd

no one says OHHHHH LETS MOVE TO CHICAGO NIGGAS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796791)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:32 PM
Author: maniacal organic girlfriend

why is that a problem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796797)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:33 PM
Author: shaky snowy black woman rehab

? I have a decent amount of friends who moved to Chicago after school. It's a nice city if you don't mind the winters/getting shot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796802)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:41 PM
Author: galvanic crimson base digit ratio

having lived in 3 of those, i can say that living in cities sucks ass

just move to Boise or Salt Lake or whatever

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796839)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:45 PM
Author: Henna fantasy-prone newt quadroon

I mean, this is not a bad thing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796854)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 1:49 AM
Author: zippy associate

(Lee Miglin)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37800415)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:39 PM
Author: galvanic crimson base digit ratio

half the city looks like its part of the USSR in wartime

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796831)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 1:08 PM
Author: Hyperventilating lodge

one of the dumbest questions asked on xoxo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796959)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 2:24 PM
Author: Sooty mental disorder university

Gtfo instead of wasting your time here then

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37797367)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 1:10 PM
Author: bull headed vibrant ladyboy home

jerry and george together: niggers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37796963)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 11:34 PM
Author: talented yarmulke



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37799956)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 11:37 PM
Author: thirsty drab bbw



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37799968)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 1:30 PM
Author: Light Institution

[Guy who has never been to Chicago]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37797071)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 1:34 PM
Author: Hyperventilating lodge

this lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37797108)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 2:05 PM
Author: razzmatazz pink idiot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37797265)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 4:29 PM
Author: angry dun roast beef milk

It's more pleasant to visit than SF, LA or DC

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37797977)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 1:31 PM
Author: Mind-boggling flirting resort

Whats the overseas chinese % there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37797075)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 1:40 PM
Author: Clear deep circlehead nursing home

because the tax situation in IL is so awful you'd have to be a fool to buy a house in Chicago

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37797139)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 1:46 PM
Author: aquamarine personal credit line

Not geographically constricted, declining population, and high property taxes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37797163)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 1:55 PM
Author: maniacal organic girlfriend

property taxes are already very high. they are going to get much higher because there is a massive pension shortfall and some of that money is due in 2020. after November 2018 the dems now have a supermajority in the statehouse and every executive office in the state, including a governor who is going to raise taxes even more. every last dollar in new taxes will go almost exclusively to pension funds for state employees and teachers. 100,000 state employees earn $100,000 or more in salary or pension (some far more).

state income taxes are also going to be raised from a flat 5% to a progressive income tax. during the recent governors race the winner, a fat tax-dodging billionaire*, refused to say what the tax brackets would be, but rest assured that they will begin at 5% and top out at who knows where.

the fact that there is actually a lot of money in chicago, but that its all earmarked for ridiculous pensions, all weigh on whether to purchase.

*Governor JB Pritzker's wife and their employee was found by the county's tax office to have engaged in a "scheme to defraud" the tax office by making one of their several homes 'uninhabitable' at the time it was assessed. they did this by removing all the toilets in the house. after they got a low assessment, they put the toilets back in. all of this was revealed during the election. none of it mattered.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37797205)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 2:09 PM
Author: Concupiscible whorehouse

I get depressed living in NY because DeBlasio and Cuomo, etc are so corrupt, but Illinois seems even worse.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37797292)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 1:45 AM
Author: nubile native

it's more brazen, but for far lower stakes and $$ amounts. there's also the sense in which it matters less because we're chill, low-rent dipshits instead of america's #1 face to the world city. lower expectations, less-broken hearts

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37800402)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 2:10 PM
Author: Hyperventilating lodge

great poast.

if i were in chicago i'd buy land and assets elsewhere while renting 100%. maybe even live in hotels which are struggling too.

chicago is fucked for the next 10 years and i wouldn't touch that place with a 10 foot pole.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37797296)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 4:29 PM
Author: angry dun roast beef milk

How the hell did he win?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37797982)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 4:38 PM
Author: Clear deep circlehead nursing home

Chicago basically controls all the state politics, similar to how NYC dominates state politics in New York

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37798026)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 4:41 PM
Author: maniacal organic girlfriend

the republican governor was unpopular and would have lost against anyone

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37798034)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 4:44 PM
Author: Plum Aphrodisiac Affirmative Action Business Firm

He ran against the worst republican governor in the world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37798041)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 1:47 AM
Author: nubile native

it's a mystery. when i was younger downstate actually served as a check on chicago. since at least 2010 they've cumpletely bent over and spread cheeks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37800411)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 1:52 AM
Author: Talking french chef pit

curious, how could downstate serve as a check, population-wise you'd think Chicago + burbs would control no matter what.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37800423)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 4:46 PM
Author: internet-worthy stirring corner jap

Living standards peaking in classical Greece in 4th century BC plus what you just mentioned seems to suggest proximity to the ocean increases economic growth because you lower transactions costs since shipping by boat is cheap.

Ocean water also acts as a climate moderator: the center of Australia is much hotter than 10 miles inland. This used to be important for agriculture but now it's just a QOL thing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37798052)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 5:37 PM
Author: Burgundy toaster indian lodge

What does Chicago offer over a city like Buffalo???

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37798267)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 5:44 PM
Author: Clear deep circlehead nursing home

the Buffalo Wild Wings in Chicago are some of the best in the country

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37798301)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 6:22 PM
Author: thriller pearl mother school cafeteria

i used to fuck a married gal named pam who came from the south side of chicago...polish descent...she married a salesman whose work took him to texas...when they finally divorced she stayed in texas (and now lives in the dallas area)...why would anyone move back to chicago from texas? I guess also the fact that her daughter was raised in texas was a factor as well...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37798488)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 8:51 PM
Author: maniacal organic girlfriend

chicago is better than any city in texas except maybe austin

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37799186)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 6:24 PM
Author: thirsty drab bbw

nigger

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37798499)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 11:35 PM
Author: Provocative mint spot

starts with an n

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37799962)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 1:45 AM
Author: Charcoal shivering kitchen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37800405)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 11:43 PM
Author: kink-friendly appetizing principal's office

Because it’s a borin, flat, blue-collar, cultureless, frozen shithole.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37800001)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 1:48 AM
Author: nubile native

chicago has first-rate high culture.

the funny thing is that itt everyone is all racist against chicago blacks and meanwhile it's a great place to be a cornfed BIG10 White (assuming you're of average, 6'2" height)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4203495&forum_id=2#37800414)