I wrote this post in 2015. The year is now 2019, going on 2020. Anyway, I was looking at my website on a whim and decided to post these edits I had queued up. Maybe I’ll post some more.

Without further ado, here’s a list of things I didn’t like about living in Chicago back then:

• January
• February
• Wrigleyville on weekends
• Crime in certain neighborhoods is real bad, and we’re too pre-occupied by politics and red tape to figure out how to solve it.
• The Circle interchange. Hope you don’t have to drive through it in the next year.
• Actually, any merge or interchange at all. All highways should never let you switch to other ones. Straight lines and exits all the way, baby.
• The fact that people go to Navy Pier for things that aren’t boat rides or the theatre.
• Only a small part of the city smells like chocolate. I wonder how much a house in the factory’s smelling area goes for.
• Parking can really suck, depending on where you live. I guess you can rent a garage space, but what am I supposed to do with my lawn furniture in the wintertime besides use them for dibs?

2019 additions:

• taxes are too damn high
• the city is broke, we need chris traeger and ben wyatt to whip the state and city governments into shape! hmm parks and rec was still finishing up in 2015. The good old days…
• I think I was still driving to work when I wrote this. I commute by train now and there’s too many people on the train and not enough de-odorant users
• people who don’t leash their dogs
• the slight depression induced by our sports teams