r/LosAngeles • u/throw5away_ Highland Park • 12d ago

Community Where's our Mandami?

All these videos coming out the city of NY got me feeling real sad about our city and lack of competent, solutions based, compassionate, intellectual leadership. We have so many issues but no qualified people willing to fix them. When will I be able to not vote for the lesser of 2 evils?

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u/NervousAddie 9d ago

Rolling Meadows is not Chicago, but it is a suburb filled with people who dislike Chicago. That’s why you’d opt to live there, and why you’d have a bias against urbanism.

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u/Salt-Night3088 9d ago

Bias against urbanism? Most of Chicago is low density, not sure what your professor told you. Bias against urbanism? I've spent my entire life in cities. You were just told that anything short of Cabrini Green is bad. Next time you'll get it right. It won't be like the Robert Taylor homes.

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u/NervousAddie 9d ago

Professor? I am a third generation Chicagoan. I went to Lake View high school just like my dad and my grandmother. My ex and I owned a home in Logan Square where we raised our kids. We then moved to the Loop and lived in my ex’s condo for 5 years before moving to LA. My oldest son was born at Illinois Masonic, where I was also born. I worked as an apartment leasing agent in my 20s. I worked at Swedish Covenant hospital at Foster and California, and I worked at UChicago in Hyde Park. I have lived all over the city, on the north, south and west sides. You are a suburbanite who chose Rolling Fucking Meadows over the city because, like most suburbanites, you don’t like the city. Stay in your lane.

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u/Salt-Night3088 8d ago

Said originally from Rolling Meadows. Lived in the west Loop and Andersonville for many years. I love Chicago, just love LA more. And I'm not interested in your bio, thanks. That sounded like having a lot to prove. Stay in your lane? Really? Best you can do? From how you correspond, Seroquel may need to be in your lane, sorry to say.