re: Interesting facts about places you've lived

I lived in a half dozen mid sized/large cities - including Pittsburgh, Baton Rouge, Memphis, and Houston.

When it comes to violent crime, Chicago is far safer than all of them.

I’d have never know that by the media reports - often from outlets largely based in rival cities like New York or Los Angeles.

It’s also drop dead gorgeous.


I think that if we could put politics and weather aside, most of the posters from the southern US would probably appreciate and enjoy Chicago.

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A collapsed building with dead bodies hanging out of it sat around for a year until politicians solidified all their kickbacks for demo.

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Knoxville is home of the original body farm. It's 2.5 acres of land. They have about 100 corpses spread around and study how they decay.

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The original body farm is the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility located a few miles from downtown on Alcoa Highway in Tennessee, behind the University of Tennessee Medical Center. It was first started in late 1981 by anthropologist Dr. William M. Bass as a facility for the study of the decomposition of human remains. Dr. Bass became head of the university's anthropology department in 1971, and as official state forensic anthropologist for Tennessee he was frequently consulted in police cases involving decomposed human remains.

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Pollock
Now has a Family Dollar and a Dollar General

Jackson, MS is indeed a shite hole

Traverse City Michigan.

We get the Blue Angels every other year for the near/on July 4th Airshow.
Those off years? Typically the Thunderbirds.

Also associated with the airshow is the yearly Cherry Festival around the 4th. (The region is one of the largest cherry producers in the country). The kicker? Cherries aren’t usually ready to be picked around there until the end of the month.

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just Indians & wildlife there.

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And they were one!

Oprah Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, MS in 1954. I lived there from 1969-1974. During the time I lived there, my brother and his high school friends rented a house in the country from a Winfrey lady. They used it as a party house and a place to take girls. One night it burned to the ground. When you visit Kosciusko, you can visit Oprah's birthplace, but there's no house now.

The Dallas area is the largest metropolitan area in the nation not on a navigable body of water.

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the posters from the southern US would probably appreciate and enjoy Chicago.

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Stayed at the Ambassador East, just like Cary Grant in North by Nortwest, in the 80's. Ate at The Pump Room, ate at two different pizza joints, had snails in a French restaurant near the hotel, met a girl at another hotel bar, went to Mike Ditka's club, and went through the Field Museum of Natural History.It was a great time and worked a convention over the weekend. My first job after graduating college took me there.

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I lived in a half dozen mid sized/large cities - including Pittsburgh, Baton Rouge, Memphis, and Houston.

When it comes to violent crime, Chicago is far safer than all of them.

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I love Pittsburgh. That is a grossly underrated, very fun city. It is a great beer city and the food is good too.

Chicago in the summer might be the nicest place in America, as long as you stay North Side or Near North Side.

I love Chicago from May-September. The rest of the year? Not so much.

Louisiana sucks balls from May-September most years, though.