And you don't have to pay 10% (or more) sales tax and $3/hour at a parking meter (like Chicago.) And attraction wise I'd say they're better than similar sized cities (Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Nashville) You just can't beat Chicago. The city's ok, it's the majority of the people that suck. What high school did you go to?!?!?! haha jk The biggest problem with St. Louis folk, other than the hoosiers, is their ridiculous inferiority complex about Chicago. You'll hear the uneducated doofs talk all the time about how Chicago sucks and this and that. They sound so stupid, but there is no arguing with them. I have a friend down in St. Louis who just went to his 10 year highschool reunion. He was amazed at the number of people from his class that ended up in Chicago. Out of his class he guessed that close to 10% had Chicago area addresses listed. I find that while most St. Louisans give me massive cr*p about the Cubs: they love the city of Chicago. If anything they complain about the same things we do: traffic, parking and the high cost of things.