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crypto haver, city enjoyer | Florida Man in Chicago

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5 months
@jaketropolis A forced savings of, say, 6.75% of each paycheck? Paid out when you retire?
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@bigsnugga >Shenyang Oh neat, another city in China with 10m people I had never heard of until today. I swear I find another one of these every few months
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4 months
@vanillaopinions Skill issue
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@jaketropolis We should get our top minds on this (such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
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3 months
@_kaitlingrady @BaileyCarlin Chicago resident + Florida native and very much agree, I have NO idea why the ledge is so popular
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3 months
@NortonMpls Lot of people in the replies talking about the cold, and, fair. Coming from Florida it was definitely an adjustment. I’ve grown to love seasons though. Something I never really experienced until I moved here!
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@vanillaopinions Here’s the map setting the total at $900 (and some examples) Some of these are honestly pretty decent.
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@tulpapilled Cool cars = good Sitting in cars all day = bad
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@ElroySinclair50 @CaicenzoCFC @historyinmemes Ok. Cool. Despite the arrest, the truck is still parked and endangering people. Now what?
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3 months
@OutdoorFinance @lift_run85778 So you: - Don't own a car (or drive only on your property) - Extract water from a well on your property - Have never attended or sent your kids to a public school - Have never called the police (or fire department) - Have never used a public park I don't buy that.
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@capitolfax Once again requesting we replace Dorval Carter with 10 transit nerds in a discord somewhere (they'll do a much better job)
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6 months
@cta You'd see a whole lot more if you ran more trains!
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@vanillaopinions Suburbanites when apartment
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@EvanPerc_ Imagine how much better Downtown Tampa and its surroundings would be if we kept the Streetcars
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@BlockClubCHI I see I'm not the only Floridian in Chicago
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@vanillaopinions It's funny how every sunbelt city has that one pre-automobile walkable street and it's THE place to be in that city Almost like that's what people want!
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@north0fnorth Okay here’s a thought: require every municipality to designate a “town center” area zoned for multifamily & retail. If they can’t, they get absorbed by one that can
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@BebopOtt If I'm Dollop, Collectivo, Dark Matter etc I'd be absolutely salivating at moving into Foxtrot's locations. - Already built out to serve coffee - prime locations - could re-hire a lot of the foxtrot staff - and can probably get a good sublease deal too
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@JoshMoulton Does the billboard and its revenue come with the sale? no-brainer then imo
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3 months
@vanillaopinions It costs me $5 to use this all day, however many times I want
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@Stealx Chicago - buffed by its - geography - industry - location - people - workforce - transit - affordability - culture - urbanism - abundance of fresh water And nerfed by its politics. Get that fixed, and we’re golden.
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4 months
@AgileJebrim Add in some tree cover and these can fit in quite nicely next to SFHs. (see far right)
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@Noahpinion Is this really that rare in SF? There are American flags on every other home here in Chicago
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@WestLoopTom We have girlfriends that need little treats
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@YIMBYLAND This seems like the sweet spot
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@alanthefisher Metra has these on many of their overpasses
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@questionableway - pricey HOA - no rentals allowed That roughly pencils out given where rents are. Still a great deal though assuming there aren’t any major assessments coming (that is a big assumption).
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@rustbeltenjoyer Google turned an old CTA car into a little café on the roof of their chicago office; I’d be all for buying that one and doing some kind of similar adaptive re-use
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@quantian1 The sense of community and well-being he's referring to:
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@mnolangray For some context: At one point last year there was a single apartment building under construction in the West Loop of Chicago that had as many units permitted as the entire city of San Francisco
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@rohindhar Also walking distance to the town center! ...Where every single storefront is empty. I've never seen so many vacancies before lol
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@vanillaopinions It’s getting down to do-or-die time to buy a condo before the rest of the country finds out how affordable chicago is Absolutely insane to me that Chicago - a genuine world-class metropolis - is roughly as affordable, in many cases CHEAPER than my hometown (Tampa, FL)
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@collin_ruth89 Bourbon st > broadway
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@vanillaopinions Incredibly easy if you don't mind sharing a bathroom with 12 other families
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@dsbcrypto @rustbeltenjoyer Ratio trains are cool as hell
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@vanillaopinions “Why NOBODY lives in this part of FLORIDA” Thumbnail is the Everglades with an arrow that says EMPTY and the coasts that says FULL
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@YIMBYLAND “Oh that’s just hammock guy. Sometimes I’ll catch him on my morning commute. Super chill”
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@EvanPerc_ Not sure what happened w/ the last pic lmao
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@north0fnorth Like - why is there a Palos Park, Palos Hills, and Palos Heights? Why are there like 5 Barringtons? Why is there an East Hazel Crest? Is it not wildly inefficient to run all of these separate municipalities and have all separate police, fire, trash collection and what not?
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@cta Fire Dorval Carter button
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@ThunderWolf08 Feels like regional rail between Canton, Akron, and Cleveland would be waaaay more useful.
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@ThunderWolf08 Boggles my mind how my home state consistently shoots itself in the foot. We’ve expanded our highways in FL SO many times and traffic only seems to get worse. Why not do something - anything - different?
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@aschweng93 Only one of the two vowed to fire Dorval Carter, btw (it was vallas)
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@JakeSheridan_ @chicagotribune He’s already empowered, he’s fortunate enough to have a car.
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@Eric_Erins There HAS to be a big assessment coming up. This feels like far too good of a deal, even with the somewhat high HOA.
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@Duderichy He did it backwards I fear
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@tonyc920 @ranghad_ @PicturesFoIder "If you cherrypick the data exactly how I like it, it fits my narrative"
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@CrainsChicago Not a fan of the mayor - at all - but this is great. RE values in the Loop proper are a bargain compared to everything surrounding it, adding rental supply (and thereby adding foot traffic) is a huge win. Making the Loop a 24-hour district should be a top priority.
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@sdrx902 Oh we've got a few of these in Chicago. they do $1 any sized iced coffee in the summer. (might have to listen to someone tell you about a credit card though)
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@rustbeltenjoyer >see city flag thread >must remind the world of this monstrosity
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@vanillaopinions Behind one of the best public spaces in the city, perhaps the world
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@lameyzzz_ Forget the cost. What job is allowing you to sit on a patio at 11am on a Tuesday? I see this all the time in my neighborhood and it blows my mind.
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@the_transit_guy Nearly every surface lot in this image is owned by one entity (717 Parking). It's held downtown Tampa back for decades, and only recently have they started to sell.
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@DavesBears I’m assuming he means for tailgating, in which case McCormick place has a gazillion spots to accommodate. Side note: it’d be kinda cool to see South Loop bars take over for tailgating for bears games; I can’t think of a single other NFL fanbase where that’s the case.
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@sleepy_joey I grew up 20 minutes from Clearwater Beach, FL and I’d take Oak Street, North Ave, or Montrose beach over Clearwater any day* *assuming it’s warm enough
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@vanillaopinions One thing’s for sure: lowest turnout in recent memory
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@rohindhar How many more price cuts until he’s back at his entry price? I’ll give it 5
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@sdrx902 @chenseanxy @JakeLandauTO Oh. In that case the Hop in Milwaukee. very cursed system at least from my experience
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@NaqiyNY If I had a gazillion dollars, the Mid-City Transitway (plus a ton of other extensions):
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@ThunderWolf08 Florida too, no? By 2040 Brightline will either be bankrupt and publicly operated or booming and significantly expanded; hopefully the latter.
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@chicagobars @cta THANK YOU. This has irked me for so long. TFL in London does an excellent job w/ these, they even have cafes/stalls on the platforms where space allows. Doesn't this rental income count as farebox revenue too? Which is... sorely needed right now
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@collin_ruth89 Absolutely awful take New Orleans is RIGHT THERE
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@BebopOtt The corner of Diversey/Clark/Broadway especially. That corner is packed at all hours of the day. Same w/ the location at 6 corners
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@BenBradleyTV Hmm, mid-morning on a workday. I wonder why no one’s out on the street?
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@_fat_ugly_rat_ DTSP and Tampa/Seminole Heights - yeah this tracks. Surprised Ybor is lower
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@ThunderWolf08 My Floridian family is always pleasantly surprised whenever they come visit me here in Chicago.
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@bsmcfadden No need to worry about smokers when your train just doesn’t show up
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@north0fnorth I like this one
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@Eric_Erins Uptown is already cool but imagine if it REALLY leaned into being an entertainment/theater district again. Bars open later to cater to concert-goers, more late-night food spots, live entertainment 24/7 etc. could really be incredible
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@vanillaopinions Ironically the other two make Rahm look like a genius
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@hugovdthusen The more important question imo(since the Damen green line station is under construction): when will all of those parking lots be redeveloped? As West Loop pushes further west, it’s probably only a matter of time. Lot of money to be made there with a stadium district.
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@rustbeltenjoyer I feel like 10 foamers in a discord somewhere could share dorval's salary and do a better job running the CTA at this point
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@NotBaldEagle @north0fnorth Ok but what if it were a railway
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@CrainsChicago That big LaSalle Street apartment conversion project will go a long way to making the loop more lively outside of work hours. More 24hr foot traffic = more people lingering in the Loop. Reserving the Loop for 9-5 traffic only leaves billions of dollars on the table.
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@BlockClubCHI Well for starters, Dorval Carter is still employed
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@mattyglesias No supertall skyscraper, but Google’s renovation of the Thompson Center here in Chicago will hopefully be pretty cool.
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@XV20_Camry Many small towns in the US are quite walkable if you actually live *in* said town. This place is walking distance to: - a convenience store - a gym - a trail (former rail conversion) And driving distance to some absolutely beautiful nature.
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@AtlWinKnee My theory: - FDOT designs insane, convoluted roads all over the state - High number of tourists/transplants are completely unfamiliar w/ them & drive defensively - Floridians drive aggressively/defensively in response - Those awful driving habits follow us everywhere
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@vanillaopinions Would I travel to see it? No Will I still go out and look for it? Yea probably
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@AJManaseer (There is a better way)
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@north0fnorth It might be the best city in the world to be young in period - High wages - Low COL - No car required - Tons of jobs - easy to navigate - so much to do And all of that combined with like $900 rent? it's like urban living on easy mode
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@Eric_Erins That one guy that records downtown saying it's always empty is in shambles today
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@jcliffordknecht Plus, when the CTA works, it WORKS. Yesterday I was lucky enough to get an almost perfect transfer between the Ravenswood UP-N and Damen Brown line stations; made it from Lake Bluff(!!) to my apartment in Lake View East in 57 minutes. Incredible That same drive takes abt 1:30.
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@milesintransit1 do davis/harbour island count
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@Eric_Erins If only we had a massive, grand, historic theater capable of holding large events and in need of a major renovation
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@_spacepeanut_ very helpful geoguessr imagery for guessing philly when you're 50/50 with somewhere else in the northeast
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@UnhingedRye @FuckCarsReddit “Less cars on the road = less traffic for you” really gets to their entitled pea brains too
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@SidKhurana3607 And it's *all* sprawl.
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@LinkofSunshine Heaven forbid a major institution invests in the south side
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@alopex_ii Nope, property owners should be allowed to build whatever they’d like. I’d begrudgingly defend their right to do this just as I’d support them building 50 units on the same lot (though I’d of course prefer the latter)
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@ctaaction What if we replaced the CTA board with like 10 foamers, let them share Dorval’s salary, and just let them cook for a few weeks I’m actually dead serious
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@podgating @the_transit_guy Famously trains can only be built underground
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@cornoisseur I live just a few blocks from this development -- looks great. Hopefully there's a plan to relocate the affected businesses, but aside from that -- build it! More density is always good, especially around a station as useful as Belmont.
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@lincmorris @brendenmoore13 @GovPritzker @JeremyGorner Honestly I've been pleasantly surprised w/ Pritzker thus far.
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