I beg to differ.  I just got back from Tacoma after being there a month.
Sea/Tac has to be the worst.  You don't even want to dream of driving toward
Seattle during rush hour.  I saw traffic stacking up at 5 AM just to beat
the rush.  The problem is there is only one interstate and no loop going
from Seattle to Olympia.  They can't go to the west because Puget Sound is
there and can't go to the east because of the Cascades.  I even ran into a
traffic jam in the country going between Tacoma and Olympia!

Chris Mitchell

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Densmore <DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com>
To: 'mike neuliep' <mike@illiana.net>; <kclug@kclug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 4:49 PM
Subject: RE: chicago, not my kind of town

> If you want really bad traffic, nobody beats Atlanta. They have the worst
> traffic in the nation, period. Worse even than LA. I had the opportunity
to
> work in both of those cities at considerably more pay - no way. I live in
> the KC area by choice, I could make much more anywhere else. I'm here for
> the lifestyle and people, but the city planners need major brain
overhauls.
> It must be a Missouri thing (Exhibit A: Branson, MO).
>
> Brian Densmore
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mike neuliep [mailto:mike@illiana.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 2:09 PM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: chicago, not my kind of town
>
>
> Chicago is up there for crappy traffic.  It can take almost three hours to
> drive to the edge of the north burbs from the edge of the south burbs.
> Downtown Chicago royally sucks, it is going to cost you an arm and a leg
to
> park anywhere and Chicago's public transportation leaves quite a bit to be
> desired.  If circumstances permitted me to move back to KC I'd do it in a
> heartbeat!  Feel fortunate, the KC area is really the Jewel of the Midwest
> as well as the Silicon Prairie.
>
> Mike Neuliep
> mike@illiana.net