Don't you pay state sales tax, state income tax and federal income tax? Isn't your summer cooling bill as high as your winter heating bill? Doesn't housing cost like a trillion times what it is elsewhere?
Not to mention the actual price of fuel
And the high level of un and under employment?
I would hazard a guess you're just angry you are stuck in a midwestern shithole
I spent 2 years in Chicago - hated every second.