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I miss Chicago so much. I was in Ithaca New York for four years after high school. That was fun, but I got to return home afterwards. Now I am getting my MBA, and Virginia just plain sucks. When it snows the whole place goes berzerk. Everyone crashes, yet they still drive at full speed and take hard turns on unplowed powder. Now it is warmer, so the whole place turns to ice at night.

I miss quality apartments. I miss wood floors and high ceilings. I miss my paycheck. I only worked for four years, but it was a good, fun four years. Now I just borrow money, study, beg for internships, and long for our beautiful home. I was back for Christmas. I cannot explain to others the beauty of the architecture. Perhaps the availability of very bad things can make it a hazardous place to grow up (the West Side is such a short drive away), but everything else makes up for it. People are nicer than in New York, the housing is affordable (relatively), and the job market pays a living wage.

Down here they do not really have unions, so people get paid horribly and those with cash live in monstrous McMansions the size of warehouses with wall-to-wall carpeting, cheap appliances, and 8-foot ceilings. Racism is endemic. The people do not even realize it. Traffick is terrible, and there is no grocery equivalent of the Dominick's on Roosevelt at Canal. I hope I can return someday. I will buy a penthouse in an old Coop in Hyde Park with a view of the lake, or loft in River North. If I am successful, I would get a place in 840 North LSD. They actually finished that building. It is the best building I have seen contructed anywhere in the last 65 years.

I cannot tell you all how much I miss Chicago housing. I miss all the wood, and the plaster. This cheap drywall is so thing I know my neighbors' habits more than I ever wanted to. I can understand why they all are addicted to oxy and hydro around here. There is not much else to do.