WouId want to live in a city hosting the Olympics?
-No way.
I would rather be a volunteer mascot and wander around crowded streets in 95-degree heat and 80 percent humidity while wearing a steaming, furry costume already saturated with the sweat of other volunteer mascots than live in the host city. I receive regular emails from my friend Paul in London ,complaining about the constant budget overruns, increased taxes and hassles ahead of the 2012 Games.
Hosting the Olympics is too costly and too much grief. Chicago's bid for the 2016 Games cost an estimated $48 million, which I'm pretty sure doesn't include the unofficial bribes to the proper International Olympic Committee officials. The estimated cost of actually hosting the Olympics was pegged at $5 billion.
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