[PRCo] Re: Cost of living

[Fred Schneider]

Yes.  True.  And all those people driving across Chicago make for some of the
worst traffic jams on the planet.  I remember dropping Don Duke off at O'Hare for
a noon flight one day.  I figured I could get to Cleveland or Pittsburgh before
camping for the night.  Well, 16:00 and I was still on the I-80 bypass around the
south side of Chicago.  I gave up for the night at South Bend.

Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Bob Rathke wrote:
>
> > Folks in W. Pa. shouldn't complain about prices - the area has one of the
> > lowest costs of living in the U.S.
> >
> > We moved to Chicago 20 years ago, but we have managed to adjust to the
> > sticker shock.  Real estate in Pittsburgh still costs about 1/3 to 1/4 of
> > what it costs here.  It's a 75-mile drive from the north suburbs to the
> > south suburbs of Chicago - how many people in Pittsburgh have ever driven
> > that far just to visit family or friends?  Sixty miles is like driving from
> > Pittsburgh to Johnstown for an evening out, but we do it here without
> > hesitation.
>
> It's been a while but I've gone to Johnstown to shop. Sadly not a lot of
> relics left to take pictures of. Wish I'd gotten pictures before the JTCo
> bridge at Ferndale was truncated.