Quote Originally Posted by Bham1982 View Post
You have this local demographic where people go to, say MSU after having grown up in Macomb Township or wherever, and then move to Lincoln Park for a few years after college, and are shocked you can actually walk to the Cheesecake Factory and McBarleycorn's Frat-tastic Pub. It gets annoying.

Move to Rome or NYC for a few years and then report back to me on the glories of Lakeview.
Ok. Granted. Chicago is not the end all be all... and it has it's own challenges. Personally I think you're overstating them, but whatever. Point being, the local demographic of which you speak is constantly feeding places like Chicago and constantly moving away from SeM. When they tire of Chi-town and want a suburban life, they're moving to Naperville or whatever...not back to Macomb.