We used to be a proper country

They don’t want you to know about triple hung curved glass windows

tell me I'm not the only one who saw this 59 million dollar wedding on tiktok???

Sometimes that Boston accent slips out when you least expect it

Equality, Illinois

TEEN BAN: On Dec. 26, police started enforcing a teen ban at the Cherry Hill Mall. Teens must be with a parent or supervised by someone 21 years of age or older. MORE: bit.ly/3WSNdQY

To the American people: Our future starts around kitchen tables just like this. With moms and dads just like you.

I’m never going to be over that time the Morton Salt building collapsed only to reveal it literally was a building just filled with salt

‘New Urbanists’ Want To Bulldoze The Suburban American Dream thefederalist.com/2025/02/10…

Pittsburgh has a higher GDP than every city in Germany, including Berlin

Those ‘how much do you pay in rent in Chicago’ tiktoks don’t hit at all because they’re always $2K studios in a ‘luxury’ building in west loop or river north and none of us wanna to see that

Costco $COST opened its 6th store in China 🇨🇳 and its first in Southern China today This is what the line looked like with people waiting hours to get in 😲

There was a time in American history when this was the goal of a “Man Cave” for middle-class men. Living like the aristocracy was a goal. Today, it’s TVs, gaming, not books. (Blah, blah, I know, “Well, not for me and I read on a tablet”…Ok, congrats. No need to reply).

MBA students on consulting

How does Ace Hardware stay in business? 15% higher than Lowe’s and Home Depot while having nothing you need in stock

community college non credit classes are so dope. for like a hundred bucks you can learn a fun new skill and meet seven new grandmothers

Actually we should demolish it and replace it with a statue of Mary.

The Oval Office looked like that one friend's basement in 2001.

in hindsight prevost was a no brainer because he was pope francis's top guy for *picking bishops and cardinals* like they all owe him their jobs

TikTok needs to stop showing me clips of the literal Austro German noble girl who’s interning at Dior in Paris I don’t need to see people living like this it’s bad for my psyche

Controversial opinion but Chicago has better architecture than New York

Renderings revealed for condo development at 1325 W. Fulton Sulo Development | @KohnPedersenFox | ParkFowler Plus chicago.urbanize.city/post/r…

Textures of brick and tile and arches galore in another banger by Sahar Kamaledddin and Nima Safdari This is under construction in Sirjan, Iran

I didn’t know Missouri was like this

Kylie Jenner is rumored to be pregnant, expecting a baby with Timothée Chalamet.

What exactly do people want? Apartments are "pods." Suburban houses are "corrosive to the human spirit." Rural areas are "dumps in the middle of nowhere with no jobs and no girls." Is there any acceptable form of housing?

Chicago has come a long way since this era:

Houston is BIG

Why is this house seemingly always for sale

my southern family thinks my daily routine in NYC is that I wake up, try really hard not to get stabbed by a knife & then I go see wicked the musical

So @CartoonsHateHer tested the 'Men are turned off when women have high paying jobs' hypothesis. It turns out that's just completely untrue - greater percentages of men swipe right when the same women is listed as having a higher-paying job.

We used to have trains that got you between Cleveland and Akron in 38 minutes, which was 5 minutes faster than driving. 80 years later, there are no trains between the two metros.

dawg I can assure you no one is out here confusing iowa and switzerland

One of my favorite houses in the neighborhood just hit the market. No interior pics, but owned by the same family since 1967 so I know it’s gotta be good. 6K square feet! $1.05M realtor.com/realestateandhom…

Amazon taking the “a 9-5 job feels like prison” to the next level

Genuinely mad (jealous) with how much rent costs in Chicago.

I swear that I am trying as hard as I can to stay optimistic about this country. I really am. After so many miles, I've realized that one needs to wear blinders to keep anything like optimism up. One needs to travel in a private car with a large sum of money, taking pains to avoid the majority of this country's towns, streets, hotels, and eateries. Stick to popular places; well-traveled routes, highly-rated-on-Google type establishments. If it's reasonably priced, whatever it is -- avoid it. Just swipe the card and smile. If, as one goes, they catch a glimpse of the seedy, dark, degraded state of so much of the country, they need a scapegoat -- someone to blame. Say it was the liberals, the migrants, the greedy corporations. Or say it's not bad at all. Say it's A-OK -- but then keep moving from node to node within high-credit-score-America, making sure never to linger too long in the places that are so A-OK. If anyone says it's awful sad, or not that great -- shut them down; tell them they're wrong, get a little indignant. Call them a communist, or a fag. Tell them to go to China. Tell them we're awesome and it's getting better -- that whatever bad they've seen, their eyes deceive them. No one really wants to hear this kind of talk. It's not a message that sells. People rightfully find it distressing. But while we might have money, and segments of American society might be thriving -- overall and by the by, this country is becoming a place in a weird, haunting kind of decline. A hypertrophied decline; a kind of decline caused by gluttony, Godlessness, and fraud. One can only raise the rallying cry just so long before the real weight of this stuff bears down on them. There's just something deeply wrong here. It's bigger than politics, bigger than every issue on the news. There isn't "one weird trick" that will fix it. You can't talk about how bad it's getting. You have to either find a way to pay your way past it, or to ignore it, or to detach from it. If you notice or say anything about it, make sure it's positive or the knives will come out. I write this from a shitty motel in Erie, PA. I've been fending off heartbreak over this country for a long while, and here in Erie, I've lost the battle. Good God I do not know where we went wrong, and I am sorry to say that I do not have an answer.

Lovely night in Minneapolis, apologies to all the people who are afraid to come here 🫶

Work 20 hours a week, paid for 40, full pension, never laid off "public servant" Work 70 hours a week, paid for 40, barely a retirement, laid off 7 times, literally pays for "public servant" "private sector employee"

everyone wants real riots to happen, but we just don't have that dog in us anymore. not even the latinx. the average day in 1971 would put a modern American into apoplexy

You don’t see neighborhoods like this anymore because most young parents don’t own homes. Less than 5% of mortgage holders are under 30 in major metros, and the average homeowner is over 50. That’s why most neighborhoods or suburbs feel empty, they’re owned by older people whose kids are grown, while younger families are renting apartments & priced out of the communities.

#Chicago Andersonville

You know what this neighborhood is missing? A private equity backed dental office chain location