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@cykel609 I'm orginally from Grand Rapids and miss it! It might not be as big as Toronto or Vancouver but it's Michigan's second largest city after Detroit. I hope you get to all of the cool cultural stuff that's popped up since I moved away! (ArtPrize?!)

I live in Chicago and while I could live in a cheaper neighborhood, I don't feel safe. So I choose to spend a bit more on my rent to live in an area where I feel okay walking home by myself in the evening. I don't think rent is so bad in Chicago, it's the tax! While 9.5% is a decrease from the 10.25% it was when I got here, it's still a lot! And there's no food tax in Michigan. Here, there's a tax on food, sweets, alcohol, soda.....just because the city can't get itself together, we have to pay.

Oy!