OT - Where You Live

[mikemarrs]

[Rhiannon]

We get hosed on parking all over this freakin' city. It's insane.

I didn't... of course when I parked downtown it was after 8:00 and I parked on the streets... there were meters, but my friend said they were (something) meaning you didn't have to pay at that time of day. Still had to walk a block and a half to the bar we were going to though. I found it more frustrating to park in the residential areas of the city, that's a pain in the ass, even if it is free.

[Natalie]

We get hosed on parking all over this freakin' city. It's insane.

I didn't... of course when I parked downtown it was after 8:00 and I parked on the streets... there were meters, but my friend said they were (something) meaning you didn't have to pay at that time of day. Still had to walk a block and a half to the bar we were going to though. I found it more frustrating to park in the residential areas of the city, that's a pain in the ass, even if it is free.

I can't think of one place-except the airport-where you have to pay to park anywhere in the city where I live.

[cyndy!]

I can't think of one place-except the airport-where you have to pay to park anywhere in the city where I live.

i even have to pay to park at "home." my garage is a few blocks away from where i live. the going rate is up to $350/mo. i get 50% off because i'm renting from my uncle. i'm one of the lucky ones.

[Rhiannon]

i even have to pay to park at "home." my garage is a few blocks away from where i live. the going rate is up to $350/mo. i get 50% off because i'm renting from my uncle. i'm one of the lucky ones.

Where I grew up you can rent a nice apartment or house for $350/mo. That's a lot for parking. At least you get a discount!!

[bluejeangirl76]

We get hosed on parking all over this freakin' city. It's insane.

I didn't... of course when I parked downtown it was after 8:00 and I parked on the streets... there were meters, but my friend said they were (something) meaning you didn't have to pay at that time of day. Still had to walk a block and a half to the bar we were going to though. I found it more frustrating to park in the residential areas of the city, that's a pain in the ass, even if it is free.

Holy shit, you found a meter space downtown only a block and half from where you were going? Believe me, that's a good thing. Downtown Chicago, Lakeview, Lincoln Park and Bucktown - pretty much anywhere along the lake and where living/working quarters are crowded, are all metered areas, but most of them after a certain time you don't need to feed them. Usually not on weekends either, depends which area. And it's HARRRRRD to find those spaces no matter what damn time of day it is. Downtown you are pretty much forced to use a garage or a pay lot, and you're pretty much force to mortage your god damned house to do it, too. The hotels are the worst, like that sign cyndy posted... it damn near costs as much to park your car as it does to stay overnight in some of these places!

[Rhiannon]

Holy shit, you found a meter space downtown only a block and half from where you were going? Believe me, that's a good thing. Downtown Chicago, Lakeview, Lincoln Park and Bucktown - pretty much anywhere along the lake and where living/working quarters are crowded, are all metered areas, but most of them after a certain time you don't need to feed them. Usually not on weekends either, depends which area. And it's HARRRRRD to find those spaces no matter what damn time of day it is. Downtown you are pretty much forced to use a garage or a pay lot, and you're pretty much force to mortage your god damned house to do it, too. The hotels are the worst, like that sign cyndy posted... it damn near costs as much to park your car as it does to stay overnight in some of these places!

Lakeshore Thursday night, and Bucktown Friday night... took the train on Friday though, Bucktown was packed and we were buzzed, so probably a good thing. I had no problem both times I parked downtown (grand total of twice) but still, both times free, both times close to where I was going. ...Maybe I'm just that good.

Like I said, I was staying in Logan Square with my friend and his street was like playing a game of chicken to find a spot. I sat in front of the fire hydrant for 20 minutes waiting praying for someone to leave so I could steal their spot. Fortunately they did.

[bluejeangirl76]

Like I said, I was staying in Logan Square

Logan Square? For parking? Bwaaaaaahaaaaaa! Yup. You're right - that's worse than downtown.
(by the way, the rest of the city doesn't look like Logan Square )


So who wants a tour of MY city?
Okay, probably no one, but blame Andrew - he started this.


This is basically the entire downtown area... it's not as big as people think...
The majority of the city is all that flat space behind it...





This is south of downtown... the thing on the left is Soldier Field.
Slightly up and right of it is the Field Museum. The big grass/tree area up and right again is Grant Park.
The big dark building in the top left is the Sears Tower.







This is what most of the city looks like - very much in grid format...
This is a basic Chicago residential area...






This is Navy Pier...






This one, I thought, was kind of cool... this is a section of Navy Pier from above, where the ferris wheel and carousel are...





I love my city.

[m]

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[Andrew]

So who wants a tour of MY city?
Okay, probably no one, but blame Andrew - he started this.

Hey I LOVE your city....amazing place.
I loved the whole area. I could move there quite easily for something different to do. What are the nicest suberbs in your opinion? Not the most expensive, but the nicest.

I saw a lot of Burr Ridge (when I stayed with Jimmy P....bloody expensive.magnificent!) and Naperville / Aurora while I was in town the week prior to the show. But what else are nice areas?

[Rhiannon]

But what else are nice areas?

Bucktown has a fun bar/music scene. Schaumburg (burb) has a mall bigger than my hometown. Streamwood has 7th Heaven. Logan Square has horrible parking, but beautiful buildings with a lot of character.

BJG, I love your city too!! I'm homesick for it!!

[Rick]

So who wants a tour of MY city?
Okay, probably no one, but blame Andrew - he started this.

Hey I LOVE your city....amazing place.
I loved the whole area. I could move there quite easily for something different to do. What are the nicest suberbs in your opinion? Not the most expensive, but the nicest.

I saw a lot of Burr Ridge (when I stayed with Jimmy P....bloody expensive.magnificent!) and Naperville / Aurora while I was in town the week prior to the show. But what else are nice areas?

You stayed with Jimmy Paige?

[Moon Beam]

To answer your question Deb.......
Oshawa is about 5 hrs from here and I haven't ever heard of Keswick.


StevePerryHair, that means you were raised in either Ohio, Pennsylvania or New York.
Hmmmmm?

[Panther]

This is Navy Pier...

BJG76

THAT is too cool. We had a semi-chance of having something similar here. But.... too many people yelled that this is NOT what we want "mucking" up our view of the bay. Boy, did we miss the boat on that one!

[StevePerryHair]

To answer your question Deb.......
Oshawa is about 5 hrs from here and I haven't ever heard of Keswick.


StevePerryHair, that means you were raised in either Ohio, Pennsylvania or New York.
Hmmmmm?

Erie, Pa, about one block up from the lake!

[Moon Beam]

StevePerryHair, that means you were raised in either Ohio, Pennsylvania or New York.
Hmmmmm?

Erie, Pa, about one block up from the lake!

Directly across from where we are planning on camping this coming summer.....
Long Point Ontario.
You ever swim across the lake to there lady?

[StevePerryHair]

StevePerryHair, that means you were raised in either Ohio, Pennsylvania or New York.
Hmmmmm?

Erie, Pa, about one block up from the lake!

Directly across from where we are planning on camping this coming summer.....
Long Point Ontario.
You ever swim across the lake to there lady?

No! Swam IN the lake but never across! The only part of Canada we frequented every year growing up was Niagara Falls. Have great memories of those trips.

[Ms_M]

Downtown Calgary where I work. I am lucky enough to have a west-facing office, priceless view of the mountains.


Night view and Calgary Saddledome -home of our beloved Flames (ok not so beloved right now )


Calgary's backyard:

Morraine Lake


Johnston Falls (lots of mountain melt off here)


Banff Natural Hot Springs (great for the skin)

Deb,
Those are wonderful - I only got to visit Calgary one time, but I loved it... (I'm sure we've chatted about it-LOL!) Thanks for sharing those.
Ms. M

[Panther]

might be interesting to fill in one of these maps with everyone's MR screen name: (?)

ok, problems with that link - try again (those who did it will have to do it again, lol... doh)

http://www.frappr.com/

(i'll let someone else start it this time, lol)[/b]

Andrew needs to start the map. I think he should call it..... "Andrew's Headaches"

It'd be nice if they had a world map like that though. There are quite a number not in the states yanno. And what do I find?

http://www.newworldvisitormap.com/

psssst.... I fixed the link..

[m]

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[JH'sTXfan]

Someone built a castle in the Texas hill country. It's about an hour from where I live. I didn't know it existed until I drove by it.

[bluejeangirl76]

So who wants a tour of MY city?
Okay, probably no one, but blame Andrew - he started this.

Hey I LOVE your city....amazing place.
I loved the whole area. I could move there quite easily for something different to do. What are the nicest suberbs in your opinion? Not the most expensive, but the nicest.

I saw a lot of Burr Ridge (when I stayed with Jimmy P....bloody expensive.magnificent!) and Naperville / Aurora while I was in town the week prior to the show. But what else are nice areas?

Naperville is real nice, my sister used to live there. Most of the surrounding ones are good too.
Good schools out that way too - very nice, family-oriented areas. If *I* were choosing, I'd choose a northwest 'burb like Mount Prospect, Schaumburg, Arlington Heights... I'd want to be near I-90/Northwest Tollway, because it's easy to hop on that and come into the city.

I like Park Ridge because it looks more like the city than a 'burb (because it's right on the border of Chicago), but it's expensive as shit.
Also right on the edge of the city (and 5 min. from me) is Schiller Park, which is where the Frig lived. LOL! Not much that's hot about that 'burb though. I find it boring.

Wow... the Wombat moving to my town! (or near it) That would be just neato. I would hang with you. I'm fun.

[Rhiannon]

If *I* were choosing, I'd choose a northwest 'burb like Mount Prospect, Schaumburg, Arlington Heights... I'd want to be near I-90/Northwest Tollway, because it's easy to hop on that and come into the city.

Agreed... love the NW Burbs. Mostly b/c of the easily accesible 7H shows. I-90 is tons of fun, especially around 6pm on a weeknight.

Schiller Park, which is where the Frig lived. LOL! Not much that's hot about that 'burb though. I find it boring.

Hence how it produced the Frig.

Wow... the Wombat moving to my town! (or near it) That would be just neato. I would hang with you. I'm fun.

What am I? Cut glass?

[JH'sTXfan]

The only place to catch good music around here is on the back porch of the Luckenbach general store. I can't compete with all those big city pictures.

[bluejeangirl76]

If *I* were choosing, I'd choose a northwest 'burb like Mount Prospect, Schaumburg, Arlington Heights... I'd want to be near I-90/Northwest Tollway, because it's easy to hop on that and come into the city.

Agreed... love the NW Burbs. Mostly b/c of the easily accesible 7H shows. I-90 is tons of fun, especially around 6pm on a weeknight.

Schiller Park, which is where the Frig lived. LOL! Not much that's hot about that 'burb though. I find it boring.

Hence how it produced the Frig.

It didn't produce the Frig - he moved over that way later and went to HS in Franklin Park.
He's a city boy, originally.

Wow... the Wombat moving to my town! (or near it) That would be just neato. I would hang with you. I'm fun.

What am I? Cut glass?

Well no, you're not cut glass, but you don't live here... (yet? )
If you did... of course you could hang too.

[Rhiannon]

Well no, you're not cut glass, but you don't live here... (yet? )
If you did... of course you could hang too.

In a few months... Schaumburg/Streamwood area most likely.

[tj]

The only place to catch good music around here is on the back porch of the Luckenbach general store. I can't compete with all those big city pictures.

I love the words to the Lukenbach, Texas song: "The only two things in life that make it worth living are guitars tuned good and firm feeling women."

[Shadowsong]

Wow, Nice Pics!
I feel as if I have had a vacation.

I live in LA
but my parents are in Australia
Thats where my hearts is
hopefully some day my body will catch up with it..




Home Down Under






Mountain backyard in early morn mist...


On top of the world last time I was there





pic I took on last day....
The mountains were crying...

Have to get myself back there...

[tammy]

This is Navy Pier...






This one, I thought, was kind of cool... this is a section of Navy Pier from above, where the ferris wheel and carousel are...





I love my city.

I remember when Navy Pier was nothing but a pier! It was in the 60s & my parents took us down there (my mom used to go there in the 1940s for some reason - sailors, dancing?)...what I remember is something that creeps me out just thinking about it. It was night time & no lights really - I was running my hand along the chain link fence & when we got to a lit part I saw that the entire fence was covered with black spiders!! Ewwww!

[Little Lenny]

awwww wow that's great !!!