Southbound train
<p>The train south from Chicago was the first taste of how I imagined this trip to go and the first feel of the real America.</p>
<p>No, there is nothing unreal about New York, but it is very much its own thing. Self-sufficient, a country unto its own rather than a city belonging to anywhere in particular.</p>
<p>If <em>hustle </em>is the first word that NY brings to my mind, the adjective for Chicago is <em>genteel</em>. Wide, clean streets, bunches of university students, well kept parks. The occasional rough corner where drugs are being traded openly is self-contained and doesn’t spill out into the neighbourhood, and old tourists like myself aren’t accosted as they amble through.</p>
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