Quote:
Originally Posted by sentinel
Congrats on selling, which it's always a relief when any type of closing is done. Are you in the suburbs or completely out of Chicagoland/IL? If the latter, will you be changing your name? 
I understand how people are upset, given this year's perfect storm of absurdity/general shittiness, but I am always confused when people throw their hands up in the air and just say 'well, Chicago is dead' or some such thing. It's very frustrating to not be able to see the proverbial forest through the trees, and I remind others as well as myself that these are stressful, but hopefully finite times we live in; pandemics fade, employment goes back up, societies change, even on a micro-level..hopefully for the better.
Maybe I'm just an eternal optimist, but things get better..considering we already survived the Great Recession from 10-12 years ago and Chicago became more visible and economically relevant than ever before.
Yeah the current administration is perplexing and confusing at times, but nothing is normal right now, there is no playbook for ALL of the issues coming to a head at once. People will leave Chicago for a variety of reasons, but people will also still move here. There is still a lot of money, influence, resources, connectivity that make Chicago vital, the trick is how to keep that and make it flourish into something more.
Octavia Butler always felt that you can easily materialize your reality by your thoughts and words, so which will people want to materialize, the negative or the positive? I will still always choose the latter. |
We made the decision to leave Chicago last June, and have been building a house in Wayzata, Minnesota, on Lake Minnetonka (where my wife is from and where her family lives).
I'm just not interested in pulling the city out of it's financial mess by insane property tax hikes (my property taxes have gone from $25K to ~$50K over the last handful of years); i'm also not interested in sending my children to CPS, which is a disaster, IMO. Also, the novelty of "the city" has worn off for me, and honestly, I want nothing to do with the idiots/drug addicts/homeless that we experience daily even in the relatively affluent Southport Corridor area of Chicago.
Beyond all of that, we decided we want to raise our children outside the city and on a lake, where they can boat every night in the summer and skate every night in the winter. We will also have dozens of restaurants/shops to walk to, so it's sort of the best of both worlds for us.
Threaded Mode