The North Shore is a collection of suburbs North of Chicago along Lake Michigan. It is one of the most amazing places to grow up, and there are certain things that every kid from the North Shore knows and understands.

1. High School Rivalries: Rivalry games regularly turned into brawls. (You either went to New Trier or loath the Trevians.)
   
   
2. Hangover Cures: Nothing cures a hangover quite like an accidental high school reunion at Sarkis or Walker Bros. I'm sure the grease probably helps a bit too though.
   
   
3. Deep Dish Pizza: Lou Malnati's is life and deep dish will always be the best pizza on the face of the Earth.
   
4. The Hockey Dynasty: You can pronounce foreign hockey player's names better than you can pronounce your math professor's name (Go Hawks!).
   
   
5. Lake Shore Drive: When you drive on LSD you aren't referring to the drug.
   
   
6. The City: You say you are from Chicago even though you only go for music festivals.
   
   
7. Monograms & More: You see more monograms, Uggs, and LuLu in a day then you even did at school.
8. House Goals: You drive down Sheridan Road just to see all the houses on the lake that you can't afford (or you're a Trevian and could maybe afford it).
   
   
9. The Movies: You brag about Mean Girls, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Home Alone, Batman, and all the other movies that take place in the North Shore.
   
   
   
10. Cops With Nothing to Do: It takes five cop cars to give you a simple speeding ticket.
    
    
11. Mild Weather is Good Weather: If its not freezing then its good enough for shorts. Your parents also love some form of the saying "If you don't like the weather, just wait a few minutes."
    
12. The Lack of Snow Days: When the Snowpocalypse still wasn't enough to get a snow day.
    

With all its quirks and soccer moms in Range Rovers the North Shore is still the best place to live and will always be where my heart is.