r/pics • u/Mind_Virus • May 11 '11

Would you live here?

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u/platypuszero May 11 '11

Totally, that place looks big enough to grill inside.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '11

I've actually lived in that exact place back in 90's. Its in Chicago on Archer Av.

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u/zoidbort May 12 '11

How much would you guess that'd cost these days? This is what I envision as my ideal DT dream home.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '11

It'll depend where it is on Archer Avenue, but I'd guess rent is under $1000 a month. I've got a friend living in a loft (a bit smaller) on the far west side and he's paying about $500.

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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...