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Chicago is not on the list. CTA is doing its part to keep Chicago free of the dreaded 10-Best designation. Noogie on you, CTA.
Earth to CTA: Ten Best Places To Live In The USA
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1) Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see where it says anything about the CTA.
2) Please correct me again if I'm wrong, but I think the list says "Money's list of America's best small towns", so I really don't see how Chicago could have possibly made the list.
+1 for truth.
That's my point. There's a big world out there, and much of it is more hospitable and rational than Chicago.
I'm calling shenanigans on that. This says nothing about Chicago, since what it's comparing aren't things like Chicago. If I entered a pumpkin into a "Best Butternut Squash Contest" it isn't going to win. Not because it isn't a good pumpkin. It may or may not be, but that isn't the point. The point is it isn't a butternut squash. If someone else entered what was agreed on by everyone to be a great pumpkin (New York, Houston, Atlanta, Portland, insert your favorite city), it still wouldn't win, because it still isn't a butternut squash.
OK, I'm veddy, veddy bad man - er, squirrel. Please see my share on the fund raiser for the (alleged) killer drunk cop, which I posted in penance for my veddy, veddy bad deed.
If only your 1 am drunken-upvote-of-the-story could be described as such...
It'll be a cold day in hell and a warm day in Chicago before our Windy City is ranked anywhere near the top ten of a list claiming to rank the best places to live in the USA.
Why? Let us consult the late, great Studs Terkel on this one --
God, I love this town.
Uh, great comment, but if Studs said that, he was swiping it from Nelson Algren - it's in "City On The Make."
No kidding? This quote made some of the rounds about the time old Studs passed away a few years back. I linked to one of them in my comment. And I think I even remember Scott Simon quoting it on Weekend Edition about this same time.
Got an exact quote to back your point?
Never mind. I found it.
The passages don't line up exactly. Though it's true Terkel did lift the "broken nose" line. Or perhaps he was just quoting it?
Maybe Studs overestimated the literary knowledge of the reporters (always a possibility) and let that tribute to Algren fly without realizing it would be met with confusion. It's a pretty clearcut borrowing from Algren. (Unless Algren swiped it from Turkel!)
By the way, a mode of transportation favored by Algren was an old beater bike. Maybe he didn't dig the CTA either.
Look at the criteria they used: "includes towns with populations 8,500 to 50,000". So if we lose 99% of our population we may stand a chance next year - the CTA has nothing to do with it.
To be honest, I wouldn't want to live in a single one of the places they include on the list, they all look extremely boring.
i'm pretty sure that as bad as the cta is, i am also pretty sure that we have a better public transit system than papillion, nebraska.
Well put, jasontinkey! The kindness of fellow commuters helps CTA passengers weather these budget shortfalls.
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