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Affluent Chicago suburb used ironically to represent American centrism and privilege when dismissing struggles in other countries

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"The US has a better standard of living than the majority of the world, and the american centrism they show is so flippant to people in countries that are much worse. 'Your country might have a military dictatorship, but try living in Naperville.'"
"Go to like an Einstein bagel/Starbucks in one of those burbs like Skokie or Naperville and then go to an Einstein bagel get a coffee THEN in almost any given Chicago neighborhood do exactly as you did. Repeat the exact same behavior you did and try to breathe and observe the shift in the air."
"Oh you get mad when someone from Naperville says they're from Chicago? Just you wait..."
"But nah instead the vast majority of suburbs are like fucking Naperville; sprawled out to all-hell, infrequent commuter trains and the rare bus, parking lots for days, incredibly insular areas with little hope for long-term happiness outside a very narrow window of people."
Suburbs don't have to be this way · u/coolhanddukeleto · ↑27 · 2023-01-12
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