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Originally Posted by JManc
You also live in a healthy balance of 'city' and a livable residential area. You're not in a concrete jungle but in a pretty low key area based on the pictures you've posted and my general knowledge of the area. I would prefer to live where you are than most places in Manhattan. 20 years ago, I would have been all about New York.
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Oh for sure, if your only frame of reference for "city" is manhattan, then pretty much nothing in chicago, or anywhere else in the US for that matter, is "city".
Manhattan/NYC is such an extreme urban outlier in the US in oh so many different ways.
That said, my zip code still manages to get over 20,000 ppsm, which puts it in the
top 0.5% of zip codes in the nation for population density.
Lincoln Square sure as shit ain't manhattan, but it's also a far cry from schaumburg and the like as well.
It's a nice creamy middle (though definitely still "city" compared to the
VAST majority of our highly-suburbanized nation) and a hell of a great place to live in my extremely biased opinion. I'm middle-aged, and I'm certainly not looking to get outta here. I'm doing the exact opposite; planting some serious roots.