I visited my sister in Chi-Town recently and my hubby took this pic off her rooftop patio. I am getting good at this artsy photoshop stuff. I had so much fun! I got to go to an art fair in the Old Town district on Wells St, and the blues fest in Millennium Park. I would love to live there, provided I made enough money to live where my sister does! Living there in my current financial state is a frightening prospect...
BUT we're still pushing Hubby through his Electrical Construction program so we're on hold basically until he's completed his courses, then he said he would look for jobs in Chicago. Yes!! Normally he hates the big city, but this one has gorgeous buildings and a lot of history. His people are from Chicago... well, Waukegan anyway.
And they have functional mass transit! In Minneapolis it takes 12 years, lots of meetings and a freakin miracle to get any work done!! We have ONE light rail line and one more "in the works" even though people are protesting having the line go by their business. WHO in their right minds protests being RIGHT ON a mass transit line????? I live in an ass-backward state. I think it's because so many people are actually carrying their asses on the front side of their body that I think it does something to their thought process. Either that or they all REALLY DO want it but they are suffering from Defiance Disorder.
For example, the weekend we were in Chicago there were multiple events in a small area--the blues fest, rib fest, and two art fairs--that I knew about, but not one clusterfuck. Just ONE event in either Saint Paul or Minneapolis jams up the freeway for miles. Yes, I said "freeway," as in singular; i94 goes from the west end of Minneapolis all the way out past east Saint Paul going through BOTH downtowns. The bus? Worthless. Full of gun-toting hoods, loud drunks, and it slowly meanders through parts of town you never want to be stranded in! And they don't even go anywhere but to the shopping centers, so if you want to get downtown you have to transfer all over.
The contrast between the two cities' systems just made me so mad when I got back home. I just want to shake Pawlenty until his molars rattle!! But rather than risk the jail time, I'll either move or support the campaign against him in the next election.
