Chicago is actually a very safe city; but like all cities there’s crime, ineffective police, and shitty local news.

That said, you’re perfectly safe in most places. Even the historically dangerous neighborhoods are… complicated.

I’ll give you an example. I used to have a job that took me to North Lawndale a few times a week (you can look it up on your own, it’s bleak). Nothing ever happened to me or my car. Shit, it was more likely that someone would would approach me with concern and ask if I needed to be shown the way out of their neighborhood. That happened plenty.

All this to say, there are some absolute angels living in the “dangerous” parts of the city. And, when you live in one of those places, people in power treat you like a criminal from the moment you’re born. Which makes it no surprise that you’d eventually end up with a criminal record.

Get yourself the the Wieners Circle.

It’s worth the experience.

Fun fact, the origin story for Satan that so many churches point to just isn’t in the Bible.

The older I get, the more I feel like Chief O’Brien.

In, like, every way.

Somewhere, the one remaining user of Temple OS just woke up in a cold sweat.

Funny enough, that was one of the reasons for not taking the job at the time.

There were, in fact, cool rocks.

Way back in 2017 I was offered a job managing a small retreat center in the middle of bumblefuck nowhere along the shores of Lake Superior.

The pay was exceptionally low, but it came with housing and food. 8 months out of the year would have been spent just being there and keeping the place in order, the other 4 were for hosting guests.

I went back to school instead.

The fuck was I thinking? I could have ridden these shit years out as a weird hermit.