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Exactly. I moved to Manhattan to work for Google. Housing is much more expensive here than where I came from but it was absolutely worth it.

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Same here, I have an apt which is 30 min commute from downtown chicago and pay highly for it. But to me it's worth it over having a very long commute or finding a different job. Opportunities outside of the city are much more limited.

Chicago has got the metra though which goes out to the burbs. I grew up about 20 miles outside of downtown in the burbs and the rush hour metra would get you downtown in half an hour.

That's true, but there are other tradeoffs with living in the suburbs. I don't have a car and get along fine in the city with public transportation, plus the benefits of the city for a single young professional outweigh the suburbs in my personal opinion. Again it is highly priced, but it's also high in demand and for me it's worth it.

> single young professional

You didn't have to go further than that. Suburbs to me only make sense once you have kids. I'm planning on moving back to chicago this summer and my girlfriend and I are looking to move to a triplex (currently looking at around ukrainian village/wicker park, maybe lincoln park) for a few years until we have kids and then i still might put it off until we have a 3rd or one kid reaches kindergarten age.

So what are all the complaints about?

I'm not complaining?

And if others are complaining, well, they're probably not in the same situation I am.

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