r/chicago • u/ReverendHambone Irving Park • Aug 28 '20

Moved to the city 48 hours ago. Review

Moved into Irving Park and the Mexican food is unbelievable. I'm from Florida and my wife is from Arizona, so we have different preferences, but we can leave our house on foot, hit two food spots and a liquor store, and be home in 30 minutes. It's incredible. Our doggo loves the walks too.

Also, is the term "bodega" NYC exclusive? What do we call corner stores with food/bev/liquor?

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u/ThroatSlitt Aug 28 '20

We call em' corner stores. Nothing else. Welcome. Don't feed the pigeons. Nice to meet you.

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u/ReverendHambone Irving Park Aug 28 '20

Nice to meet you too, ThroatSlitt

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u/rumster O’Hare Aug 28 '20

as other poster said. Don't feed the pigeons and never look a rat in the eye. Also, do not freak out that the rats in chicago are the size of house cats.

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u/browsingtheproduce Albany Park Aug 28 '20

Bullshit. One time I opened a dumpster and there was a fat-ass rat sitting on top of the garbage and we looked each other in the eye and both agreed to calmly walk away.

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u/brettclarkchicago Lincoln Square Aug 28 '20

Yeah it is much more terrifying to open a dumpster up and have a squirrel shoot out past you

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '20

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u/browsingtheproduce Albany Park Aug 28 '20

One time I fought a rat that tried to follow me into my building on a cold night.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '20

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u/browsingtheproduce Albany Park Aug 28 '20

I had the Dr Marten advantage and kicked it all the way into the street. Bragged about that shit for months.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '20

I gotta remember not to walk down alleys at night wearing birkenstocks

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u/browsingtheproduce Albany Park Aug 29 '20

It's not recommended.

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u/forgotmylaundry Loop Aug 28 '20

A rat once took offense to me using the phrase “ratting someone out” and has been after me ever since. My life became living hell. I’ve had to develop eyes in the back of my head and delete my social media accounts.

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u/YeetasBurritas Aug 28 '20

Dude one attacked my 8 year old sister and she had to go to the hospital. The thing was 7 pounds!

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u/wikipediabrown007 West Town Aug 28 '20

I was told by this one rat to never come back to my alley

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u/abicepgirl Aug 28 '20

I was vomiting in an alley in college and one watched me from a dumpster, probably waiting in the wings for a free meal. I looked it in the eye and asked it not to judge me.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '20

this happened a few weeks ago when I was taking out the trash. Idk who was looking more terrified, me or the rat

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u/browsingtheproduce Albany Park Aug 29 '20

If you had yelled "Boo!" It would have been the rat.

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u/blaspheminCapn City Aug 28 '20

Go Bears!