Chicago does not receive Olympic bid

Merci11 · #1 10-02-2009, 02:27 PM

I used to live in Chicago and honestly, I think it would not have been a good idea to have the Olympics there. We'd have to build all of this new stuff (which would have created jobs) but there's no way that the city could ever afforded it. When I lived there sales tax was creeping towards 10% and, from what I hear from my family that still lives there, it's over 11% now. It would have skyrocketed if the city had to get the money to pay for it all. Sure they'd bring in revenue from the events, but Athens was in huge debt after hosting the Olympics in 2004.

Also, maybe it's because I'm not from one of the nicer areas of the city, but I think everything would have looked really out of place.

Not to mention, this country has hosted the Olympics so many times, let some one else have a turn.

DaemonSeid · #2 10-02-2009, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Merci11

I used to live in Chicago and honestly, I think it would not have been a good idea to have the Olympics there. We'd have to build all of this new stuff (which would have created jobs) but there's no way that the city could ever afforded it. When I lived there sales tax was creeping towards 10% and, from what I hear from my family that still lives there, it's over 11% now. It would have skyrocketed if the city had to get the money to pay for it all. Sure they'd bring in revenue from the events, but Athens was in huge debt after hosting the Olympics in 2004.

Also, maybe it's because I'm not from one of the nicer areas of the city, but I think everything would have looked really out of place.

Not to mention, this country has hosted the Olympics so many times, let some one else have a turn.

Exactly..I mean LA and Atlanta both had one recently, let someone else wreck their city!

ThetaDancer · #3 10-02-2009, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Exactly..I mean LA and Atlanta both had one recently, let someone else wreck their city!

And Salt Lake City had the winter Olympics recently...so for me it wasn't that much of a surprise that they would go to another country.