any place in Iowa vs Chicago

[dead0man]

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[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Well Chicago obviously but any actual city in Iowa is better than most of the US.

[YaBoyNY]

Chicagoans tend to be full of themselves and fashion themselves to be an actual competitor to New York, so Iowa.

[Mr. Illini]

Chicagoans tend to be full of themselves and fashion themselves to be an actual competitor to New York, so Iowa.

New York is an overcrowded hellhole

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Chicago is a disaster town. Give me the cornfields of actual America.

Curious what prompted this though

[YaBoyNY]

Chicagoans tend to be full of themselves and fashion themselves to be an actual competitor to New York, so Iowa.

New York is an overcrowded hellhole

That's because people want to live here, man.

[dead0man]

Curious what prompted this though

The fact that Iowa received higher ranking than Illinois is humorous.

How many Atlasians would actually pick any place in Iowa over the city of Chicago?

lets find out

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I like them both, but I'd have to go with Chicago.  One of my favorite cities in the whole world.

[Sasquatch]

Iowa City > any place in Illinois

[SATW]

Iowa City > any place in Illinois

[muon2]

I think I'll just stay home. My mother was born in Chicago and my father in IA and I've lived in both. But from home I can catch the train into Chicago for a visit or drive the opposite direction for a day trip to IA.

[traininthedistance]

Chicagoans tend to be full of themselves and fashion themselves to be an actual competitor to New York, so Iowa.

New York is an overcrowded hellhole

Lawl.  There is no urban area in America that is "overcrowded", not even NYC.  On the contrary the precise opposite is true everywhere in this country, and that's a really f**ing serious problem!

[Ban my account ffs!]

you're citing a graph made from data from 1989?  Well that explains a lot.

I call junk graph.

[RFayette]

you're citing a graph made from data from 1989?  Well that explains a lot.

I call junk graph.

Besides, why should Europe and Asia be our standards?  We are America.  I'd rather have more space and freedom, thank you very much, regardless of what some left-wing central planners want.

[SNJ1985]

Any place in Iowa

[pikachu]

you're citing a graph made from data from 1989?  Well that explains a lot.

I call junk graph.

Besides, why should Europe and Asia be our standards?  We are America.  I'd rather have more space and freedom, thank you very much, regardless of what some left-wing central planners want.

I don't see how there's an equivalency between space and freedom, especially in an already built-up urban environment.

(Also, my answer was Chicago.)

[Rockefeller GOP]

Iowa City > any place in Illinois

Just speaking of university towns, I have visited Iowa City, Champaign and Bloomington, and I thought Champaign was the best campus.

[Bismarck]

Rural Midwest beats Chicago anyway. Chicago is a place to visit. Rural Midwest is the place to live.

[Goldwater]

Hate them both, but everything else being equal urban>rural, so Chicago I guess. Not that Iowa completely rural, of course.

[RINO Tom]

Background: born in Peoria, IL, moved to Iowa City during grade school, visit Chicago 6-7 times per year.

Both are awesome, as is Downstate Illinois.  My friends are in Iowa City, but I consider Chicago the best city in the United States.  So, theoretically, Chicago; as far as real life, right now?  I'll be staying in Iowa City for a few more years.

[Green Line]

Chicago.  I prefer civilization. 

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Rural Midwest beats Chicago anyway. Chicago is a place to visit. Rural Midwest is the place to live.

I prefer to visit the country and live where people (and therefore THINGS) are.

[Badger]

Chicagoans tend to be full of themselves and fashion themselves to be an actual competitor to New York, so Iowa.

If one is a New Yorker whose main beef with Chicago is that it "pretends" to have the culture, nightlife, excitement, etc. of NYC, i suspect anywhere in IA you alternatively chose to live to be.....disappointing.

@ OP, Chi-town, w/ IA City as a runner up.

[Kushahontas]

Iowa, easy.

[Gass3268]

Tough question, but I went with Chicago.