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As a Chicago native who left for college, I can't count the number of "where you from" "ohhhhh don't you mean...Chi-raq?!?!?" 🤔
I'm like, "no... I mean the place with awesome public transportation, where I walked to school and back daily because it was easy to not get lost when your 'blocks' are actually block shaped, and where I wasn't afraid to walk around at night because even in poor neighborhoods there's so many lights it can feel brighter than the day. You know? The place where I've literally never heard a gun go off outside of New years eve?
I'm sure they've gone off, but I ain't personally heard any. No I didn't grow up in fucking chi-raq. I'm from Chicago."
"BUT are you ACTUALLY from chicago?!?"
"Yes? If you mailed me a letter, that's the city you'd write on the envelope"