Want to feel poor? Stay in downtown Chicago

[Fritzo]

We went to Chicago over the weekend for the World Series and stayed on Michigan Avenue. HOL-EE CHIT did I feel out of my element! All the women on the street looked like supermodels, all the guys were wearing Armani jackets, and everyone seemed to be driving a Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini, or Bentley. I mean- look at this outside of the pizza place we were at! Cars like this were parked all the way down the street! Here I am in my 2008 Chrysler Town & Country with the family and feel REALLY out of place.

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Kind of makes you feel like you failed at life

 

[CraKaJaX]

I feel like this every time I step foot in Manhattan. Which is too often.

 

[highland145]

I would love to be rich...well, who wouldn't...and show up in my 1995 Honda and gym shorts/t-shirt and get front row parking.

Go Cubs.

 

[PricklyPete]

Yep...lots of money in this world.

But it shouldn't make you feel like a failure. If you are able to provide for your family, you're doing just fine.

 

[cbrunny]

aren't tickets to the world series running in the thousands? and you managed to get a hotel room too? so what's that, a $6,000 to $8,000 trip for you and your family? To see a baseball game? Sounds like you're doing just fine.

 

[pete6032]

Did you go to the game? cbrunny has a point.

 

[13Gigatons]

Most rich people are amoral idiots and those pretty girls don't stick around when the money dries up.

 

[Svnla]

OP, so you did see a few members of ATOT millionaire club chapter in Chicago, eh?

 

[K1052]

Presumably you were in the Gold Coast or River North. Historically the places where men with small endowments and large checkbooks show off for the gold digger/compare size.

 

[dainthomas]

Go Indians!

 

[Fritzo]

aren't tickets to the world series running in the thousands? and you managed to get a hotel room too? so what's that, a $6,000 to $8,000 trip for you and your family? To see a baseball game? Sounds like you're doing just fine.

I should clarify- I didn't go to the game (just went to town during the game), and scored a nice hotel off of Priceline for $170.

Coming down the elevator on Saturday, there were 5 bros wearing Cubs uniforms talking back and forth:

"So that dude opened is mouth and it ruined the night"
"Yeah, I wasn't going to take that. We paid $10K for these tickets and I wasn't letting him get away with that..."
"Yeah man, he unleashed the beast!"
"He's sorry now..."

It sounds like these guys paid $50K for tickets and beat someone up. Now THAT'S a weekend.

 

[Midwayman]

I should clarify- I didn't go to the game (just went to town during the game), and scored a nice hotel off of Priceline for $170.

Coming down the elevator on Saturday, there were 5 bros wearing Cubs uniforms talking back and forth:

"So that dude opened is mouth and it ruined the night"
"Yeah, I wasn't going to take that. We paid $10K for these tickets and I wasn't letting him get away with that..."
"Yeah man, he unleashed the beast!"
"He's sorry now..."

It sounds like these guys paid $50K for tickets and beat someone up. Now THAT'S a weekend.

Its not a good weekend if it doesn't end with a dead hooker.

 

[Fritzo]

Its not a good weekend if it doesn't end with a dead hooker.

It was only Saturday...they had a long way to go.

 

[purbeast0]

I'm so poor I can't even see the image in the OP.

 

[TwiceOver]

Must be because of the game. Stayed in a hotel on the same street 3 Months ago and didn't see a single car like that or people dressed in Armani suits.

 

[Stopsignhank]

Must be because of the game. Stayed in a hotel on the same street 3 Months ago and didn't see a single car like that or people dressed in Armani suits.

All the ballers from Cleveland were in town.

 

[tynopik]

all the guys were wearing Armani jackets

. . .

Kind of makes you feel like you failed at life

The solution is to be poor enough so you don't even recognize an Armani jacket when you see it. Ignorance is bliss.

"Don't see stuff like that at Walmart, must have gone to Sears."

 

[Crono]

As ancient Chinese proverb says: Mo' money, mo' problems.

 

[highland145]

I'm not Chinese though.

 

[allisolm]

I'm so poor I can't even see the image in the OP.

Same here.

 

[soulcougher73]

I'm so poor I can't even see the image in the OP.

Same here.

Ditto. Sucks not being a baller

 

[John Connor]

Image doesn't load. I tried two browsers.

Curious, did you use this forum's upload? Just use Imgur.

 

[Crono]

Looks like an unshared Google Photos image.

 

[Imp]

Cuanto cuesta los boletos por la Series World?

 

[John Connor]

Alrededor de tres cincuenta.