The difference
The Chicago metropolitan area is home to around 10 million people.
The entire state of Maine has a population less than 1/8 that size.
Long about my fifth traffic jam driving home from O'Hare today, Maine was starting to sound like a pretty good idea.
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It is so weird living in a metropolitan area again. (Not that KCMO was a huge one like Philadelphia...) The first major shock was not so much the traffic but the traffic news on the radio. I hadn't heard it in years. Talk about surreal.
How was Maine?
I had to travel through Chicago six times last year, and the shortest traffic jam(at least one per time) I was stuck in was 45 minutes.
I'm beginning to think that even a metro area like Salt Lake is a little too big and crowded. It used to be that I didn't mind a thirty- or forty-minute commute. Now twenty minutes is about my limit, and even then I'm frustrated when the traffic keeps it from being shorter.
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