IT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE A LIAR, POST CRAP/LIES AND CLAIM THEM TO BE FACTS!
You don't know ANYTHING about NYC nor Chicago and keep proving it, over and over and over again!
HOUSES...in Manhattan? IT IS TO LAUGH! Brownstones yes, outside of Gracie Mansion...NO! And those brownstones cost many millions of dollars, have thick plaster walls ( as do many apartment building in both cities ) which you can NOT hear a sound through; if there was mass murder going on next door! Neither are they ""crowded"...unless you mean that they are close to/abut the next brownstone.
Neither do you know how enormous many of the parks are in NYC and Chicago.
You're a complete "STRANGER" to the factual truth!
You're also blaming vast swaths of people who NEVER even think about, let alone encourage land grabs by the government. Nor do you know or understand just WHAT the ones done by old Slick and wee barry were all about!
Did it ever occur to you that milking cows ( yes, I have done that too ), slopping hogs ( oh YUCK! ), pulling logs down a mountain are WORK and things that don't appeal to most people; not even those who MUST do it...though milking machines have been around for a long, long time now, and slapping those metal things on cows' teats, is about as "exciting" and self-fulfilling, as washing windows.
You're a benighted, blinkered, extremely biased fool, so warped and wrapped up in yourself and your own ideas, you are incapable of seeing any reality.
It’s obvious that your life has been as multi-faceted as my own. It’s always good to meet a fellow traveler. However, it’s obvious that something has corrupted your sense of honor. Therefore, I must reject your worldview out of hand.