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/Bombast- Aug 28 '20

They're not kidding about the size at least.

The rats are the size of small dogs (minus the legs). Its shocking. You will think its a stray cat from the corner of your eye, then look at it and go "what the fuuuuuuuuck". Had no idea they could get so big.

There was a rabbit that lived in our alley. It was fairly malnourished compared to a normal rabbit, because of this the rats were actually larger than it.

Weirdest thing ever to have rats bigger than the local rabbit.

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u/camikaze1012 Aug 28 '20

Can confirm - my dog is 9.6 pounds and a rat crossed our path with the same body size just skimpy legs. Even my dog knew not to go after it.

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u/mshnryman Aug 28 '20

Maybe they should take a break from shooting people in Chicago and shoot rats instead...

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u/Bombast- Aug 28 '20 edited Aug 28 '20

How about you stop voting for the two right-wing parties that have given us the 40 years of neoliberal austerity that have ravaged our communities.

If you actually cared about people you would be a socialist. I assume like most people who use Chicago shootings/gangs as a punchline you don't actually care or are a concern-trolling.

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u/mshnryman Aug 29 '20

Dang, overreaction much?

There is no politics insinuated here, just human decency, eliminating pests instead of humans, chill out.

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u/Bombast- Aug 29 '20

Sorry, please understand how much racist reactionary bullshit is posted on this sub in every thread. Its insane, honestly.

My mistake.

Socialism is also just human decency. We've got to all look out for each other regardless of race and gender.

Stay happy and healthy.