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I'd never want to live in Chicago either. It's way too big and way to congested.

I must say, tho, as a kid, and a teen, and a young mother, I did love Chicago, as it was the only place I had ever lived...I loved the museums, the zoos, the lakefront for fishing and swimming, and parking,....and the shopping downtown was wonderful...Marshall Fields is still my favorite store of all time...and all the great restaurants, and clubs, and pubs, were the best

But when we moved to North Carolina, it was like a shock...we moved from the big city into the countryside....I dont think I was able to get a full nights sleep for 6 months...it was so quiet, and I was used to the noises of the big city....

But eventually I became completely 'contrified(is that a word?)

Then we moved to Western Washington State, and we have lived more rurally ever since...

Going to Seattle, is even now a little scarey for me...My son, who lives in Seattle, laughs at me...he says he cannot believe that I was born, and raised in Chicago, and lived there for the first 32 yrs of my life...

Altho my son was more or less raised in the boonies, he now prefers the city life of Seattle...

He groans when he comes down to visit us in Olymia, because he finds it booooring....

But he agrees it was a great place to grow up...But now, at the age of 28, he prefers the hustle and bustle of the big city...

I will give $5.00 for every of the 39 West (BY GOD) Virginia Freepers who match me in the next day. BADJOE(go pitt) can you keep track of that? If not , what the h$$l. Everyone on FR is trustworthy, right.