Naperville, Il is one of the most anti-social cities in North America.

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Naperville, Il is one of the most anti-social cities in North America.

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Naperville, Illinois. When one thinks of that town, the first things that come to mind usually are luxurious homes, well-kept lawns, magnolia trees, flower beds, the Naperville Riverwalk, and it's seemingly attractive Downtown area.

But all of that masks a dry and barren social desert. Naperville residents are among the most anti-social and disconnected people I have encountered. And it's no surprise given it's location in DuPage County, Illinois. People in Chicago are anti-social, but people in Naperville have even a zero tolerance policy for strangers and anyone outside their cliques. In Naperville, nobody ever talks to strangers unless it's strictly business-related, and there is no interaction amongst neighbors.

Naperville is a safe, quiet community, very little if any crime, I've ridden through Naperville on bicycle in the middle of the night many times before without any feelings that anything crimewise could possibly happen, and yet I've seen people there acting in broad daylight like they're in Detroit or East St. Louis.

In Naperville, you can never interact with, or even approach, anyone at all. Not even on the Naperville Riverwalk, not at Sea Lion Aquatic Park, not in the Downtown area, not even at places like Potter's Place, the Dandelion Fountain, BD's Mongolian Grill, Quigley's Irish Pub, Bowlero Naperville, Houlihans, Wildflower Park, Centennial Beach, Wentz Concert Hall/Fine Arts center, and not even at Riverwalk Park.

And should I even mention, you can not ride a bicycle in the Downtown area of Naperville. Bicycles can not be ridden on neither street nor sidewalk in Downtown Naperville, and they also can not be ridden on the riverwalk.

http://www.naperville.il.us
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naperville,_Illinois
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPage_County,_Illinois
http://www.visitnaperville.com
http://www.naperville.net
http://www.dinenaperville.com
http://www.napervilletownship.com
http://downtownnaperville.com
http://tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g36422-N ... tions.html
http://www.napervilleparks.org
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Re: Naperville, Il is one of the most anti-social cities in North America.

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Yeah.. I don't know what's up with that. The more safer the neighborhood, the more anti social, cold, robotic, cliquish people become.
I mean WTF.. In contrast, black people from the projects or from the South are more friendlier then your over caffeinated liberal white people.
:shock: It boggles my mind.
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Natural_Born_Cynic wrote:
March 7th, 2023, 10:23 am
Yeah.. I don't know what's up with that. The more safer the neighborhood, the more anti social, cold, robotic, cliquish people become.
I mean WTF.. In contrast, black people from the projects or from the South are more friendlier then your over caffeinated liberal white people.
:shock: It boggles my mind.
Even New Yorkers would be horribly disgusted by Naperville's toxic, soulless, disconnected, and anti-social culture and people, Naperville is that bad.
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traveller wrote:
March 10th, 2023, 10:57 pm
Natural_Born_Cynic wrote:
March 7th, 2023, 10:23 am
Yeah.. I don't know what's up with that. The more safer the neighborhood, the more anti social, cold, robotic, cliquish people become.
I mean WTF.. In contrast, black people from the projects or from the South are more friendlier then your over caffeinated liberal white people.
:shock: It boggles my mind.
Even New Yorkers would be horribly disgusted by Naperville's toxic, soulless, disconnected, and anti-social culture and people, Naperville is that bad.
And New Yorkers are known to be rude a$$holes. Naperville looks like some demented, artificial, soulless, "Stepford wife" social experiment in a matrix like environment. I bet there are lot of white people on many kinds of anti depressant pills or some sh*t.
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traveller wrote:
March 7th, 2023, 9:51 am
Naperville, Illinois. When one thinks of that town, the first things that come to mind usually are luxurious homes, well-kept lawns, magnolia trees, flower beds, the Naperville Riverwalk, and it's seemingly attractive Downtown area.

But all of that masks a dry and barren social desert. Naperville residents are among the most anti-social and disconnected people I have encountered. And it's no surprise given it's location in DuPage County, Illinois. People in Chicago are anti-social, but people in Naperville have even a zero tolerance policy for strangers and anyone outside their cliques. In Naperville, nobody ever talks to strangers unless it's strictly business-related, and there is no interaction amongst neighbors.

Naperville is a safe, quiet community, very little if any crime, I've ridden through Naperville on bicycle in the middle of the night many times before without any feelings that anything crimewise could possibly happen, and yet I've seen people there acting in broad daylight like they're in Detroit or East St. Louis.

In Naperville, you can never interact with, or even approach, anyone at all. Not even on the Naperville Riverwalk, not at Sea Lion Aquatic Park, not in the Downtown area, not even at places like Potter's Place, the Dandelion Fountain, BD's Mongolian Grill, Quigley's Irish Pub, Bowlero Naperville, Houlihans, Wildflower Park, Centennial Beach, Wentz Concert Hall/Fine Arts center, and not even at Riverwalk Park.

And should I even mention, you can not ride a bicycle in the Downtown area of Naperville. Bicycles can not be ridden on neither street nor sidewalk in Downtown Naperville, and they also can not be ridden on the riverwalk.

http://www.naperville.il.us
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naperville,_Illinois
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPage_County,_Illinois
http://www.visitnaperville.com
http://www.naperville.net
http://www.dinenaperville.com
http://www.napervilletownship.com
http://downtownnaperville.com
http://tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g36422-N ... tions.html
http://www.napervilleparks.org
If you think it's bad in Naperville, just wait until you see Toronto!

In Toronto, glancing in a woman's direction even when crossing a street is automatic jail. In Toronto, looking up while on public transit system, bus or train, if your glance hits a woman, going grocery shopping alone, asking someone what time it is, even visiting a park or going to a college/university without a woman present with you = Automatic jail. In Toronto, for men, a daytime outing getting detoured straight to jail by the feminism there is as certain to happen as walking on a quarter inch of ice on a lake is to send you breaking through the ice and into water in the low 30s.

The only reason there are no mass shootings in Toronto is because Canada has a zero tolerance policy for gun violence. A mass shooting in Toronto would result in the suspect getting immediately taken out by a military air strike, followed by Martial law potentially for the entire state of Ontario.
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In Toronto, guys actually are even required to keep their gaze down on the ground with their heads held at a 45 degree or lower angle forward. In Toronto, you better see only feet in a crowd if you don't want to get arrested and thrown in jail. Toronto is one place where women are put on the throne, and men are thrown under the wheels and run over.
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I've gone through a lot of residential neighborhoods in Naperville without any fear, and yet you never even see kids playing outside in residential areas in Naperville. No kids playing frisbee, water balloon, playing in sprinklers, sliding down those plastic yellow water slides, playing in those little collapsible swimming pools, playing tag, because everyone's hiding inside like they think they're in a war zone of an extremely bad neighborhood, even like East St. Louis.

In Chicago's west and south side areas, kids play outside, even in neighborhoods where they really shouldn't, areas like Back of the Yards, Englewood, East Garfield Park, the Humboldt and Douglas Park area, and Little Village, all of which are in fact very bad neighborhoods. And I even notice when I see it on the news that most of those kids that play outside are either Hispanic or of black/African descent. All while White people out in Glen Ellyn, Naperville, Downers Grove, Lombard, Batavia, and similar safe areas keep everyone inside and they never leave the house except for work, school, and shopping. And I'm sure they even keep all children inside, like being in a prison, and they never let the kids play outside, again like they think they're in East St. Louis, or even Baghdad.

Naperville is safe and quiet, but to it's own residents, Naperville is even a war zone averaging even 250,000+ drive-by shootings every day, every single street corner crawling with Latin Kings, Gangster Disciples, Four Corner Hustlers, Mickey Cobras, and similar gangs, cocaine and heroin being sold in every single house outside their own house, people getting robbed and shot the instant they step outside the front door, and that fear and terror appears to even feed on the peace and quiet of the neighborhood.
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