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- Name
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- Country
- United States
- Vibe in one line
- Big-shouldered extrovert who actually remembers your name.
- Rough population size
- Roughly 2.7M in the city; ~9.5M in the metro.
- Transit / getting around
- L is solid in the core, buses fill in the grid, and the city actually understands what a bike lane is.
- My take
- Feels like the Midwest built a proper coastal city as a group project. If you fused Boston’s density with friendlier people and cheaper rents, you’d get something suspiciously Chicago-shaped.