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Originally Posted by Velvet_Highground
On a Chicago photo thread a couple years back someone was talking about a friend who was NY born and raised, never left the city.
As a kid he took a school field trip to Boston and knew Boston as another big east coast city, NY - Boston rivalry looming large in his mind but upon entering the Boston he asked when are we gonna get to Boston? The scale of the cities was so different that the kid thought coming into central Boston he was entering a suburb or something. Years later as a young adult he comes to Chicago and says ah this is a real city not quite NY but NY on Valium.
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Back in college, one of my good friends was a born and raised Manhattanite. He had never been to Chicago before, so he came to visit me one summer break. I took him on a drive down LSD to check out downtown (as it's always a pretty easy way to impress out of towners).
About 10 minutes into it, after driving past miles of lakefront skyscrapers, and with Big John and the rest of the mag mile skyline staring him right in the face, he turned to me and said "
damn, Chicago is the first city I've ever been to whose skyline isn't a complete joke."
"Not a complete joke"
That's the highest praise a New Yorker can give any place, LOL!
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