You know what makes SoCalRules kind of sad is how he is so stupidly stubborn about the whole "Chicago and the Midwest sucks" thing even after everyone in this thread, from all over the country mind you, completely ripped him a new one.
Be man enough to realize you totally lost several pages back in the thread. You put Portland and San Diego and Los Angeles as better URBAN experiences than freaking Chicago! Just admit you were way off. We all know it, so be a man about it and face the music.
Huh? I think that you 1) Missed that no one was arguing who had the bigger "creative community" and 2) Who the hell correlates the size of a "creative community" with urban lifestyle!? You don't really understand what "urban lifestyle" means, do you.
People had you totally pegged a couple pages back when they said you could care less about urban lifestyle and you are just about celebrity culture... I think you'd be happiest moving inside your television.
Speak for yourself. The draw to people from California (and there certainly are a lot of Californians at Northwestern I must say) is largely because of the location alone. California has many great things but there is NOTHING like Northwestern's residential highrise urban location on the entire West Coast, and it offers a perfect alternative to the New York City lifestyle without the New York City prices. Hence the draw for those that want an urban lifestyle you simply can't get on the West Coast, without New York City prices.
BTW I leave you with this fact: "mighty California" now has negative domestic migration to the Midwest. You know this right? There are more people from California moving to the Midwest than the other way around? New York Times even did an article about this the first week of November. Not that I care but since you act like it's the other way around I figured you needed to hear what is actually going on outside of MTV News.