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Country Discussion: USA

US of

  • Yay

    Votes: 19 29.7%

  • Nay

    Votes: 31 48.4%

  • The British are just jealous and overly cynical

    Votes: 14 21.9%
  • Total voters
    64
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bigjonny said:
We’re starting the trip in Chicago , I was thinking of staying north of the river other than maybe going to see The Bean and Buddy Guy’s club
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The parts of Chicago you want to swerve are parts you’re not going to anyway. Don’t sweat it.

Take the Architectural Tour.

www.architecture.org

Tours

Choose from 85 tours departing daily all over Chicago. Docent-led tours by boat, walking, bus, trolley or even “L” trains.
www.architecture.org www.architecture.org

Have done 4-5 times and it’s awesome. Take the one that gets you up and down the Chicago River and out into Lake Michigan.

The Bean is the Bean. Catch a Cubs game, hit the Field Museum and the Art Institute, get an Italian beef at Al’s in Little Italy. Lots of ethnic neighborhoods in Chicago - largest Polish population outside of Poland.
 
Blue peter said:
I’m off to NYC in a few weeks. Third time since 2015, only going for a week. Doing the beast, Summit at Vanderbil, taking in a Yankees game, and going to Coney in the evening. Does anyone else have anything they can recommend, they may be off the beaten track?
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Interested to know how the homeless situation is there. Have a mate from NYC visiting in a week so interesting to compare views...

Goat said:
Currently playing a game with a load of Muricans.

They spent nearly 20minutes last night taking the piss cos I used the term Car Park, they had never heard anything so silly in their whole life.

Parking lot my anus.
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Martin Alvito said:
If you want to send them round the bend, use a certain British slang term for 'cigarette' and watch the carnage unfold.
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I always enjoy asking,

"Hi mate, how's tricks"...
 
Zatara said:
Interested to know how the homeless situation is there. Have a mate from NYC visiting in a week so interesting to compare views...





I always enjoy asking,

"Hi mate, how's tricks"...
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Just got back from NYC. I didn’t see as much of an issue with homelessness as I thought I would to be honest, but we were in the W hotel in Times Square, so difficult to see the obvious homeless simply due to the volume of people at that particular location. Outside of there, yes there is an issue but I wouldn’t say it is any more or less than Liverpool or London which I visited a few weeks back. Any level of homelessness is abhorrent but nothing out of the usual as far I could see and I visited four of the five boroughs. (I may just not be attuned to it)
 

Blue peter said:
Just got back from NYC. I didn’t see as much of an issue with homelessness as I thought I would to be honest, but we were in the W hotel in Times Square, so difficult to see the obvious homeless simply due to the volume of people at that particular location. Outside of there, yes there is an issue but I wouldn’t say it is any more or less than Liverpool or London which I visited a few weeks back. Any level of homelessness is abhorrent but nothing out of the usual as far I could see and I visited four of the five boroughs. (I may just not be attuned to it)
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If you were in Times Sq you saw the worst of Manhattan…

Wish I had seen this earlier. Have you ever walked the High Line? One of my favorite attractions
 
Blue peter said:
Just got back from NYC. I didn’t see as much of an issue with homelessness as I thought I would to be honest, but we were in the W hotel in Times Square, so difficult to see the obvious homeless simply due to the volume of people at that particular location. Outside of there, yes there is an issue but I wouldn’t say it is any more or less than Liverpool or London which I visited a few weeks back. Any level of homelessness is abhorrent but nothing out of the usual as far I could see and I visited four of the five boroughs. (I may just not be attuned to it)
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Probably more of a problem in Liverpool than there
 
Blue peter said:
Just got back from NYC. I didn’t see as much of an issue with homelessness as I thought I would to be honest, but we were in the W hotel in Times Square, so difficult to see the obvious homeless simply due to the volume of people at that particular location. Outside of there, yes there is an issue but I wouldn’t say it is any more or less than Liverpool or London which I visited a few weeks back. Any level of homelessness is abhorrent but nothing out of the usual as far I could see and I visited four of the five boroughs. (I may just not be attuned to it)
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Believe NYC has the largest homeless population in the US. Was surprised as well when I read this as is far less obvious in the downtown areas than in other US cities.
Someone told me this was down to aggressive policing, with people moved to less desirable areas.
Maybe one of the US posters on here can confirm this?
 

JimmyJeffers said:
Believe NYC has the largest homeless population in the US. Was surprised as well when I read this as is far less obvious in the downtown areas than in other US cities.
Someone told me this was down to aggressive policing, with people moved to less desirable areas.
Maybe one of the US posters on here can confirm this?
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it probably has more to do with the fact that NYC is one of the largest and most expensive cities in the world, although I have a hard time believing NYC > Mexico City unless you are very generous with use of the word "home"
 

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