“Chicago was an amazing, exciting city when my family relocated to the area in the mid-1980s”
Sorry, no it wasn’t.
The Cancerous Dem Crapola has been there for more than a century. The bad work rules, tax policies, raw criminality and political corruption ( I repeat myself) have flourished there since the beginning.
That you just realize it now is really quite sad for you, and a horror for the country.
“The Cancerous Dem Crapola has been there for more than a century. The bad work rules, tax policies, raw criminality and political corruption ( I repeat myself) have flourished there since the beginning.”
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It’s amazing the dissonance people will employ, and even embrace, when they think they are succeeding somehow. For many decades there has been a “brain drain” in the midwest and rust-belt to places with higher paying jobs, such as the east coast, california, and perhaps because of the weather also Florida, but Chicago was also one of those destinatins. To go with that higher paying job, one also had to endure and accept a higher cost of living, and a more ‘cosmopolitian’ social/political set of beliefs, or at least live with them.
But once your city refuses to protect you from distopian levels of crime, even if at-the-least after the fact with lack of criminal prosecution, then higher paying jobs are obviously no longer worth it.
Every few years Chicago gets worse than it was before - a process going on for decades. I lived there in the early 60’s... It was a whole lot better then than it is now.