Posted Sep 25, 2019, 1:57 PM
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Chicago's core is extremely dense and huge, but it drops off almost immediately in most directions but N/NW.
If you take, say, the Stevenson Expressway west, you go from downtown--endless warehouses--suburbia. You can actually be in woodsy suburbia like Burr Ridge in maybe 30 minutes (obviously excepting rush hour). If you work off-hours, it's actually quite easy to have a big suburban house and drive downtown to work.
LA's core is rather inconsequential, and doesn't even feel like the real center. But 30 miles from the core doesn't look/feel much different than two miles from the core.
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