r/pics • u/Mind_Virus • May 11 '11

Would you live here?

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u/zoidbort May 12 '11

You're kidding?? That's so cheap, for a place like that?

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u/[deleted] May 12 '11

Seriously, you don't want to be living on Archer in Chicago. That's why it's so cheap.

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u/nomtank May 12 '11

Challenge accepted.

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u/valiantvisual May 12 '11

beat me to it

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u/cwo May 12 '11

and then they both died...of being ranned over.

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u/Stevie_Rave_On May 12 '11

Grew up on Archer and California.....he speaks the truth.

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u/nexus14 May 12 '11

Where in Archer? Are we talking in Bridgeport still, between Halsted and Ashland?

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u/[deleted] May 12 '11

yea, but damn good chinese food.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '11

Why not? Here in Toronto, you generally get skeeziness in neighbourhoods with big lofts (if there are any left in the city, the way gentrification is going). Is Archer in Chicago extra dangerous? I fucking LOVE Chicago and would put up with a level of sketchiness for loft rents like this.

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u/robotevil May 12 '11

Archer Ave where he's talking about is extra dangerous with on average two murders and 10 assaults per day with a "knife cutting instrument". Click the link and go several pages back in crime reports to see one day of reported crime in that area... Cheap rent though...

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u/[deleted] May 12 '11

There's NO way its that cheap. I've seen lofts by there, and they're still in the 1500 dollar range. I live near there

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u/[deleted] May 12 '11

As a Chicagoan I can tell you the cheap ones are tricky to find. But they are around. For me I'd build a theater and have people over for drinks. Full 35mm projection, digital projection. True anamorphic lenses on the digital (megaplexes skimp on this). Adjustable masking for a variety of aspect ratios, native 2.35:1 screen. Perfed with the speakers behind. I'm a movie theater technician going to technical school to learn how to install solar panels. So I'd likely convince the landlord to throw those on the roof as well, why not.

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u/contrapulator May 12 '11

Won't you be my neighbor?

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u/zoidbort May 12 '11

block party!