Posted on 08/27/2020 6:35:28 PM PDT by simpson96
They understand why protesters and rioters have poured onto the streets of downtown, and some acknowledge that crime is worse in other parts of Chicago. Some also agree with protesters that something systemic needs to be changed.
But they don’t want to wait it out here in the city, fearful of stepping outside at night and hoping for things to maybe get better.
They want out.
“Not to make it all about us; the whole world is suffering,” said Amber, a 30-year-old nurse who lives in River North. “This is a minute factor in all of that, and we totally realize that. We are very lucky to have what we do have.
“But I do think that I’ve never had to think about my own safety in this way before.”
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Amber, who requested her last name be withheld out of concern for her safety, said she and her husband are actively eyeing a home near the Indiana Dunes National Park, about 50 miles outside of Chicago. The millennial couple, both age 30, currently live in River North, where much of the summer looting has been centered.
“We’re just looking for more safety,” she said.
Amber’s husband also works as a nurse. The pair supports the Black Lives Matter movement and the uprising, Amber said, but living smack dab at the intersection of the downtown unrest and the COVID-19 pandemic has been incredibly difficult.
“I think people forget that people do live here, too — it’s not just the Guccis and the Jimmy Choo stores,” she said. “And I completely support it all. You stealing shoes means nothing to me — that doesn’t hurt me at all. It’s just the fact that that brings more crime, and that does endanger me.”
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How did you vote last 10 years?
Amber is an idiot.
To answer your question. ..”Amber’s husband also works as a nurse. The pair supports the Black Lives Matter”...
Couple of dopes...
The same way she and her husband will vote this election.
Amber is an idiot.
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Moving to Indiana and a county that is Chicago East.
Know some folks with a beach house there (across the road deeded access). One night when the power went out, they immediately got in the car and drove back to Streeterville. Didn’t even wait to see how long the outage was.
I suppose the property values in Michigan City and environs are skyrocketing.
Why would anyone need a 30 round magazine?
Typical NIMBY hypocrite leftist. "Looting is okay, just not in MY backyard". So she's moving. To YOUR backyard.
Correct!
wakey wakey liberals
The dems are no longer liberal. They are leftist/socialist/communist
“I think people forget that people do live here, too — it’s not just the Guccis and the Jimmy Choo stores,” she said. “And I completely support it all. You stealing shoes means nothing to me — that doesn’t hurt me at all. It’s just the fact that that brings more crime, and that does endanger me.”
Amber still pays lip service to BLM and the whole nine yards of racist propaganda. She'll learn soon that that won't help her either.
Wow. Disheartening. She’s gonna vote democrat for the rest of her life.
These city refugees are going to f#ck up the rest of the country.
I love that post.
Wakey, wakey.....in the profound words of Nigel Farage.
Hubby and I say that, to each other, often, since.
“You stealing shoes means nothing to me — that doesn’t hurt me at all. It’s just the fact that that brings more crime, and that does endanger me.”
Blithering idiots. Their pathetic failed liberal ideology will endanger any safe community they move to. I’m sure the first thing they’ll do wherever they move will be to put up one of those pretentious “Hate has no home here” signs.
So heading to the burbs to spread their politics which led to this; effing locusts.
I have been really surprised at how many formerly normal people have fallen for the “systemic racism “ narrative. It is truly frightening.
If they voted for it, they shouldn’t be allowed to leave.
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