Aside from the first years in the motherland and then a few years on the beach, I’ve spent my entire life in and around Chicago. Every year this frozen tundra comes around, 9/10 residents, including myself, mother fuck the earth as if they haven’t gotten hypothermia every year for the last 20 years. So I’d like to take a moment to personally thank the first settlers of my clan for making this stupid, uninformed decision to ruin the rest of our lives 🙂
My parents, grandparents, and uncles, were literally given a hall pass. Whoever gets paid the big bucks at the immigration office was like Here you go.. here’s some visas.. go to America.. be free. So what do those fuckers do? Move to CHICAGO. Although I’m sure I was an exceptionally smart 4 year old, I doubt they let me look over the documents. However, I swear on Toews they didn’t request that you move to an overcrowded North Pole. I get it – we already had family here, we didn’t have money, didn’t know the language, we had Belmont, blah blah. My parents get some of the blame for giving into peer pressure and not creating their own warm, palm tree lined path, but that’s why this post is mainly aimed towards my great great great great whatever.
I understand there was no Google or Tom Skilling back them to show them the error of their ways. But if they were able to somehow find out that half of Warsaw had settled in Chicago, someone should have done their due diligence and conducted a little more research.
That is all.