What are the advantages of living in Chicago compared to living in a big city in California?|129699

If you have a family and are middle class?

Chicago has culture, it_s cheaper, nicer, cleaner, and you get all four seasons here although winter always drags! Plus you don_t have to worry about 4 hour traffic jams...Chicago gets traffic but not as bad as California_s. Also you don_t have to worry about fires, mudslides, earthquakes...things like that.

You cannot buy a decent house in California unless you_re a millionaire. Right outside Chicago I think you could buy a reasonably priced house. Chicago is cold in the winter, California is wonderful all year round. In California the price of living is high, but you make more money there too. Traffic might be a tad better in Chicago. lol maybe not.

I hope I helped. :)

I used to live in a tiny suburb outside of LA, and even there, houses were really expensive. Prices have probably increased since I moved 4 years ago, but my family sold our small 1 story 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house for about 1 million dollars...then we moved to the Denver, CO area and currently live in a huge 3 story house that only cost 400,000.

Chicago is cheaper and, in my opinion, nicer. Southern California is a horrible mess.
Even the food is better here.

Housing would probably cost more in California and you would probably NEED a car, where in Chicago you can get by without one.

You get lots of exercise shoveling snow in Chicago not much of that in California.

In terms of house prices about $100 a square foot difference !

Both places are quite expensive to live in, have major gang problems and are flooded with illegals...... Seems pretty equal to me.