Gatekeep Chicago

@kswizzlein Nah sorry we’re gatekeeping our city again. Too many influencers blowing up our spot making it more expensive for the rest of us 😡

i don’t know who needs to hear this but: 1.) you sound stupid saying a city is “full” or “closed” 2.) you can’t gatekeep a city 3.) stop being weird about people moving there 4.) i am going to make a list and move to all the locations you say is “full” out of spite

@sportsrapport It’s because influencers couldn’t stop talking about Chicago, breaking the mainstream perception everybody had about the city Now TikTok’s unleashed a horde of transplants who are moving here because it’s trendy and now we’re all paying for it We gotta gatekeep Chicago again

I can't figure out why the switch flipped but Chicago is in boom times right now. Home values are skyrocketing (in the nice neighborhoods) and even on weeknights bars and restaurants are humming. I've lived here since 2009 and I don't think the city's been raring quite like this until now. This comes after taking longer to recover from Covid than basically everywhere else.

@SpaceC0wb0y2525 Nah we shouldn’t displace and price out native Chicagoans out of their own communities

@gatekeepchicago Your whiteness is showing There’s plenty of housing, you just have to tolerate having neighbors with a different skin color than you

We need to build more housing in Chicago

My car got broken into five times today in Lakeview!!! Never come to Chicago.

Can’t do this bumper to bumper traffic anymore smh #gatekeepchicago

Come to Chicago for the food! Stay because you got murdered.

@holidae0 @ChicagoREDP For one we don’t need to be hyping up Chicago on social media! Can’t be having everybody be moving here

@ChicagoREDP How?

Gatekeep Chicago

@sportsrapport But also juxtaposed on this is that the city’s in the worst financial state its ever been, teetering on the brink of bankruptcy

@ErikaFromMurica I’ll take that as a compliment 😂

@gatekeepchicago This is giving me Mitch Hedberg vibes

We’re never gonna normalize this behavior in Chicago #gatekeepchicago

@SteveO_Capalot The concrete is such a nice asthetic

Fulton Market my favorite area to be outside walking around in

Yep that’s because Chicago is getting too expensive

Chicago isn’t delivery ANY new housing for the next couple years 👎

See everybody.! This is why we need to gatekeep our city again. Too many people are moving here when we don’t have enough housing built!!

@FairweatherPhD Why are we telling everybody about this?? We don’t want our prices going up

Chicago and the Midwest have their climate challenges, but have relatively low natural disaster risk compared to the rest of the United States. youtu.be/9J2GjGixcQc?si…

Chicago has so much to offer. Many people wouldn't consider moving there because of the brutally cold winters, but unlike Austin or Houston, the heat stays on the city stays open when the temperatures drop below freezing.

@Chicago2100 @north0fnorth That’s why we need to gatekeep our city again. Gotta stop hyping up our city on social media. Building housing takes 3+ years.

@gatekeepchicago @north0fnorth Displacement is only inevitable when we refuse to build new housing

the far north side is such a standout compared to the rest of the city i sometimes almost forget how bad the segregation is in most of chicago. really embarrassing there aren’t more places like rogers park

@Chicago2100 @north0fnorth Embracing coastal transplant elites who raise our rent prices, bring their cringey culture, and displace our communities isn’t “change that’s good”

@gatekeepchicago @north0fnorth Look up what Pilsen means and why its called that. Change is good, and it happens naturally. There are winners and losers no doubt, but we hold ourselves back from literally any improvement in fear of this

Chicago is the worst place to be during a nuclear war