Two stories. One Idealist. Another Moving Away.

After a year in New York, or more appropriately called THE city, a friend decided that the windier pastures in Chicago, Illinois suited her better.

Obviously, Chicago < New York. Obvio. Here's how:

10. Security bollards masked as "public art" in the Financial District and men with machine guns to protect your non-profit from imploding.

9. Karaoke with small rooms for private antics at 4 AM in Koreatown

8. Something about the best pizza in the pizza war. But no one can deny the supremacy of Flushing.

7. MUJI, all 5 stores.

6. Always being able to snub our noses at Washington DC's music scene. (OH wait, that's just me.)

5. Pretending we're a progressive city with Bloomies at our helm.

4. Brooklyn Bridge. I have to say it, its the "urban planner" in me.

3. The WOOmb (a block of residential Brooklyn housing only graduates from a snooty public policy masters program)

2. Getting anything in bite size form, as your collegues know well. For example, PT Cruiser and the three powderpuff girls. Available now at the Hello Kitty (LUX), Times Square location!

1. Nights in with TV addicts at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, Sunday Blues, Target runs and lunch breaks near City Hall.

Please have the northface jacket waiting for me.

music listening to: 1901 by Phoenix
reading: another article on the world trade center development