I'm with you. I'm in SF now but Chicago was home for a long time just a year ago. What's changed? It was on-par with Dallas with rents and overall cost of living.
That is with the glaring exception that Dallas has no income tax but a high sales tax. Chicago has both.
yeah, no way. we have outrageous sales tax, but rent is fairly reasonable.
The good news is that we have no stores, so there is never an opportunity to collect that sales tax.