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Originally Posted by Kenmore
love when this thread becomes a bunch of aspies humble bragging out all the great high paying software jobs in chicago as if that anecdote means a damn thing in a city with a credit rating 2 notches above junk
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The credit rating is about the city, it has nothing to do with the businesses inside of it. There's been numerous articles with companies stating that they aren't phased by it at all. It's reality - there's many, many people in the city who make that kind of money, not to mention that Chicago had an almost 20% increase of households making at least $200K from 2014 to 2015, and over 11% increase in 6+ figure making households which was the third highet of any city in America. The REALITY is that many people can afford these, and continue to.
Chicago is a big economy - one of the largest and most diverse in the entire country. As LVDW alludes to, there's a variety of ways to make a very good living in the city - and the best part is that the affordability of nice stuff in Chicago is much easier than that of NYC or SF. You could be making $140K or $150K as a single person with minimal debt in Manhattan and you still wouldn't be living in a high rise with a gym, pool, etc included. In Chicago though, you could make $85K and very possibly get that.