Chicago Population Sinks to 1920 Level

Don't bring that piece of work up.

Rufus moved back to Chicago and all his friends moved to NYC

mutombonyc: How's your yardwork going? It's almost spring.

People are moving out of Chicago because they are tired of getting their homes and cars broken into.
They move to a better neighborhood in Chicago, only to find high crime rates there too.
After 3 or 4 burglaries they give up on Chicago.

It's a great town to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.

Hi, Truth.

I saw a man. He danced with his wife. In Chicago.

Funny, Truth, it sounds like you're talking about Bed Stuy.

sledgehammer: It's probably worse than Bed-Stuy.
All of Chicago including Oak Park.
Garfield Park was a dump until the artists moved in and fixed the neighborhood up. They even cleaned up the park. Then when it became nice, the artists' studios started getting burglarized.

alanfart "saw a man dancing with his wife in Chicago."
Even if he saw a man dancing with a boyfriend ,anywhere;
alanfart still hasn't danced with/ gotten laid in decades.

Hi, Truth!

alanfart posted within a minute of my comment;
It's Friday night and he still has no hope of good company.

Hi, Truth!

Hi Truth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-L0NpaErkk

"no hope" is such a bleak way of putting that, so final, so unrelentingly...What happened to hope and change you can believe in?

Hfscomm1 has completely taken over

Clearly the economy of Chicago is changing and can't support the same job mixture.

You mean there's no longer enough room for Capone AND Colosimo?

I thought there'd be something to that demo trends, but after reading the article, I didn't see any major cause worth worrying about, and interestingly they said that population peaked in 1950 and then declined for 50 years, so it's not like it's been on the up for the past century and all of a sudden collapsed for whatever reason.

Riversider: That's a good link.

N.Y has it's fair share of crooked politians but Chicago tops N.Y. .

The community organizers fight over the crumbs that the politians drop.

It's a town with great architecture, museums and public art. Go out of that area and, uh oh!

The murder-rate for minors is off-the-charts.

I don't remember who, but I recall somebody posting a comment on SE about how they moved here from Chicago after having their home burglarized a few times.

politicians.

How do you think chicago's social sevices are wrt mental heath?

Are you asking me, falcogold?
I don't know.
I hope you find out :the next time you're in Chicago, get hit by a car while you're crossing the street. Get rushed to a trauma center. Get a spinal-fusion, metal rods implanted in your back. Get your leg that's hanging on by a thread operated on. Wake up with an external-fixator on it.
Spend 2 months in the hospital, learning how to walk again. Then go to a rehab center for therapy with a P.T. After a few more surgeries, try to deal with the nightmares, flashbacks, sleeplessness and the pain.
That is, if you survive being hit by a car. You may just drop dead.

You left out the first part, about walking around in the middle of the street in a totally disconnected-from-reality stupor, tired old 1970s white suburban "rock" music being piped into your head by aliens from Brooklyn. Forgot the tinfoil hat to keep it out.

Or was the first part about deliberately hurling yourself into the path of a car so you could bring a completely meritless lawsuit, one of so very many?

Nice try, alanfart. It didn't happen that way, and the public record proves it.

Hope you find out, too.
Get hit by a car, alanfart. Suffer. Many surgeries. Spend years in a wheelchair, then a walker, then crutches, then one crutch, then a cane.

You may just drop dead, too. One can only hope.
I've never filed a meritless lawsuit. The public record proves it.

You have nothing on me. You are a slave, pure and simple. Mostly simple.

SLAVE! ZAP!

please post the public record so we can all rejoice.

you know, i would never out a person. but i would truly love to post your lawsuit.

it amazes me that anyone who has been through something like that would actually HOPE that it would happen to someone else. although i think given what i know your timeframe may be very much misrepresented.

i gave all the slaves new collars for the holidays. crazy.

Yes, "Truth": your statements are false, and your lawsuits are meritless, until you post the public record here for all to see. Else, you remain the Baglady of Bellevue, the Cretin of Creedmore.

aboutready, here with another threat. Along with her slaves alanhart and something from cc. within minutes.

I don't wish it on anybody. But since they have chosen to post comments about it -- yes - I hope they do have that experience.
They wouldn't be trolling me or anybody else with comments on SE.

You know nothing that isn't in the public record about me. I've never met you, never spoken to you.
You are garbage.
You know the real names of some people on here. You have researched them. Your husband has provided them with legal help, according to your own words in one of the emails you sent me.
They have something to hide -- not me.

Given what I know about what the wives of some of the other attorneys in your husband's law firm say about you, you should just go have another drink. At home. Where nobody can see you making a fool of yourself.

oh truth, you're so charming and special.

the wives at my husband's law firm don't KNOW me. he's at a new firm.

nice try, beyotch.

alanfart needs a knob in his gob.

>nice try, beyotch.

How old are you?

oh look.

its hfscomm1

>get hit by a car while you're crossing the street.

Ok, not appropriate.

"Truth", shouldn't you be busy posting the link to those meritless lawsuits of yours? You really don't have time to stick around here and continue playing the eternal victim.

>I've never filed a meritless lawsuit. The public record proves it.

I must have missed some history here.

actually, truth, i know a fair amount that isn't in the public record about you. and much of what's in the public record isn't so great.

>he's at a new firm.

Oh, good for him.

where do you work, hfscomm1?

oh, and it's funny. truth doesn't know who i am. but i know who she is.

hey, is this where the party moved? pass that this way

I know who you are. Your name and your husband's name. The name of the law firm where he works.
You are a running joke in that office.
Not to your husband's face -- they feel sorry for him.

Your reputation follows you, ar. Wherever you and your husband go.

cue truth holding up a sheaf of papers.

"I know who you are!!!"

truth is sweating....

heavily...

but no mind.

truth is seeking truth!

Suck it, alanfart. If you can even get it.
Which you can't.

will truth find the truth!!????

news at 11.

"truth is sweating....

heavily..."

Still, the benefits of inpatient psychotropic medication far outweigh the embarrassing side effects.

perhaps true for the patient.

but for the rest of us?

yuck.

no you don't truth. not at all.

you really think that an equity partner's co-workers at a new firm would have any notion of who the wife is?

you're not only insane, you're a fucking liar as well. but people do feel sorry for you. we know. we talked to the office where you "volunteer" as somebody's agent.

They said "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh HER; no, not exactly, no"

so...this car accident really happened to her? and now you guys are taunting and encouraging her while knowing her medical history? holy shit, do even understand the difference between humor and sadism? wtf

huntersburg: Imagine me getting a 1.6 million dollar settlement for a meritless lawsuit.

where is your friend riversider when we need him?

tort reform anyone?

huntersburg: Imagine being tied up in litigation with someone so odiously disturbed that you'll throw any amount of money at her just to not have to experience her anymore.

yes, truth, but you kept suing. and suing. and suing.

and leaving nasty messages. and nasty posts here.

but lucille, maybe she'll invite you to the hamptons with spinny.

omg

hey, $1.6 million doesn't last forever.

gotta keep bringing in the bacon.

Please stand by, everyone. "Truth" will be right back after she pops another Thorazine.

Imagine being tied up in litigation with someone so odiously disturbed that you'll throw any amount of money at her just to not have to experience her anymore.

NOW we're getting some honest opinions about this dakota mess

So, Lucille, you think you're better than everyone else for living in one of those wealthy little states back east, and you can just dismiss two whole states -- with hard-working, honest people -- as a "mess"?

I keep doubling over in laughter at the thought of a bunch of pardner-wives running around telling people that Heather is a "running joke", and how sorry they feel for Ralph. Anyone who knows them at all knows how absurd that is!

ALAN - just curious - do you work at that law firm?

Hi ph41: No alan knows nothing, except what his master directs him to post here.

ar e-mailed me with instructions about you, and what to comment in response to you. I put the comment up. to your credit, you didn't argue with me. That's when I knew that ar was trying to enlist me into her gang of slaves.

I have that e-mail. You can see it any time you want.

Truth - interesting re: that e-mail. Can you post it here?

Everyone else seems to know who AR, and her "hubby" are in real life. I've never cracked the code.

I do agree with you that a managing partner in his 50's, in good standing, does not just up and go to another firm.

ph41: I can post it here, but let's keep it for ourselves. We can then send it to the SE editor.

You can meet with me and I will print it out for you.

It was a very specific, detailed instruction to me : about what to write in my comment.
I was new here at that time, so I went with it; just to see what your response might be.
And, you took the high ground. No response from you, no fight against me.

So I knew. Right then. I know when I'm being manipulated.

Sorry to have posted that comment. You know which one it was.

Truth,

I have not begun, LOL. I'm good how are you?

So let me get this straight, Truth, Ph41, and Lucille, all 3 don't get along with aboutready?

This thread is hilarious. Truth, you too call alanhart, alanfart!

huntersburg: It's not a matter of not getting along with aboutready. It's more about refusing to be enslaved by her.
She and her gang hate(and I do mean HATE) anybody who does not agree with ar.
Also anybody who engages in friendly discussions with whomever she doesn't like/doesn't like ar.
and she doesn't like anybody who is commenting on a friendly thread, having nothing to do with her.
Mean, disruptive agression.

You speak truth. YOU also paint a funny picture.

Truth, don't you think that the word "enslave" might be a bit much?

But forget the rhetoric, how about we go to the facts: Are you saying that there was a time you got along with aboutready, and she didn't get along with another poster, and to support her cause she recommended (strongly suggested ... whatever) that you reply in a certain way on streeteasy in effort to show additional support for her position against someone else she didn't care for or agree with?

mutombonyc: Doing well, thanks.
Alan is an intelligent, funny/ witty man -- but being enslaved by ar is his problem. And it shows. I used to think that he was good,but he's proven himself to be mean and nasty.

So, how are things with you? Will you be doing that yardwork and planting that tree and installing the sod by yourself, or have you decided to hire somebody to do it?

Mutombo --

What, exactly, is "hilarious" about someone who writes, as Truth did to AH, the following:

"You may just drop dead, too. One can only hope."

A better word would be "sad" or "abusive" or "pitiful." Other good words are "seek help immediately."

Great, input from the Virgin.

I still don't see the link to her insurance fraud that "Truth" was supposed to post. I hope nothing happened to her.

Oh, yeah, I forgot: nothing happened to her.

Truth,

I will hire someone to do the yard work, I ain't cut for that, along with a beautiful brown wooden fence. I am in a great place in life! Living, Learning and most important making dreams reality!

MidtownerEast, I said this thread is hilarious as the post reminds me of SE from two years ago.

>MidtownerEast, I said this thread is hilarious as the post reminds me of SE from two years ago.

Well, MidtownerVirgin has only been here since November 1, but he says he's good at using the search function so maybe he can find some vintage streeteasy and provide links. If I try to use the search function to look up columbiacounty to see if he was as pathetic in the past, I find unexplained threads like this: http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/23109 but they aren't 2 years old.

sorry to drag this dumb thread back to the surface, but can someone, anyone, please clarify these statements.

"i know a fair amount that isn't in the public record about you"

"we know. we talked to the office where you "volunteer" as somebody's agent."

how do you know these things about her? why are you going to her place of work to "talk" to her co workers? what exactly are you doing here?

How do you think New York's social services are wrt mental heath?

Truth...I believe you might act as a valuable authority on this topic.
(thanks for the well wishes)

"Truth...I believe you might act as a valuable authority on this topic."

really? the invalid's angry response to the group of "sane" people who, for all intents and purposes, have admited to basically tormenting her in real life? that's what strikes you as odd on this whole entire thread?

you mean the woman who continually called a very valued poster here (on the phone) repeatedly with the foulest language imaginable?

the woman who threatened to "find out what she needed in discovery" against me"?

the person who is so litigious that one of her causes of action was the failure to change a lightbulb for three days?

pay attention, lucy. there's a past here, and it's ugly.

what actual actions has she taken against you?

why are you going to her work?

why did you bring this up again?

what is your agenda?

who says we're going to her work? what work?

what actions has she taken against me? you can't read? she not so vaguely threatened me with litigation. i tend to find out anything i can about people who have said they are seeking discovery against me.

good night, lucille.

she threatens....so you actually go and seek out her real life? what did her threats matter? have you ever done anything to her which could be used against you in court?

good night, indeed

this was dead and gone.

why did you bring it up again?

what is your agenda?

actually, lucille, you really didn't read did you? she was attacking someone else so virulently that we felt the need to arm ourselves.

she repeatedly left numerous vituperative messages on someone's machine, horrible. we needed to stop it.

i'm sorry, that wouldn't have bothered me so much, but it was decidedly unpleasant for someone else. i guess YOU wouldn't defend yourself against such attacks?

sleep tight.

there are some folks whose posts are nothing short of a cry for help.
get help, get well, be free!
I only want for you what's best for all.
No one person is an island.
On this island some have driven of the mental health reservation...and never looked back.
Pharmacological agents that target affect and mood have come a long way over the years.

Sue me for stating the obvious

>you mean the woman who continually called a very valued poster here

Who decides if someone is a "very valued poster"?

>she not so vaguely threatened me with litigation.

You threatened me with litigation.

>the woman who threatened to "find out what she needed in discovery" against me"?

You threatened to find out about me in discovery.

>the person who is so litigious that one of her causes of action was the failure to change a lightbulb for three days?

Uh...

>she was attacking someone else so virulently that we felt the need to arm ourselves.

Who is "we"?

>we needed to stop it.

Who is "we"?

Indeed, who is "we". Very disturbing, Very disturbing.
It's beyond my lifespan, but told that Abilify, Seroquel, Zyprexa are all equally effective.

"Sue me for stating the obvious"

... Ay, Cristo!

Dios mio

hunter, if i may, the intricate puzzle you are constructing of columbiacounty's complexity is missing a very important piece. 2009 was a bad bad place. almost everyone was scared, almost everyone was affected, almost everyone's statements from their moneychangers arrived with notes of reassurance and encouragement along the lines of DON'T JUMP! YOU STILL HAVE YOUR HEALTH! what makes columbiacounty's case unique is the fact that his decision making process unfolded right here on this board, and was heavily and visibly influenced by members of that little posse he hangs out with. some people here like to scream at brokers and owners to put their money where their mouths are and buy lots of real estate. well, columbiacounty put HIS money where THEIR mouths were.....and we all know what happened next. so, while indiscriminately blaming any and everyone is certainly natural in that situation, he has the unique opportunity to actually blame specific people who influenced him - his streeteasy friends. chew on that!

whats your point?