Decent Areas

Some people just aren't bothered by the cold. Last year I was looking for any bar that still had their patios open late in the fall. Forty, fifty degrees, I'll put on a coat, I just wanna drink beer and smoke cigarettes, I don't care. But I'm from South Dakota so you get used to the cold. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. And, really, the winters aren't that bad, it's just really boring. If you're a kid growing up there it's boring as shit. But now I wanna go back, I have a six-month-old son. I'm trying to convince my girlfriend to go back there but she really doesn't wanna. Sioux Falls is the biggest city in South Dakota and it still only has three high schools. She focuses on stuff like that. But I try to convince her, I tell her, yeah, small towns don't have a lotta things that big cities have, but they also have a lotta things that big cities don't. The public school system is still pretty good, the crime rate is low. Only bad thing about it, apart from being boring, is all the drunken Indians. Not to sound like a racist or anything, it's just my experience. Nothing worse than a drunken Indian, they're fucking animals when they drink. First time I was stabbed—I've been stabbed twice—but the first time I was stabbed it was by a drunken Indian. Still, there's no place like the South Side there. But I try to stick to the decent areas of town. I work at Madison and Ada, work at Wrightwood and Pulaski, I live over at Chicago and Ashland. I haven't seen anything that's too hood in my experience, not in those areas. Still, moving back to Sioux Falls would be nice. I think it's a good place to raise a family. I enjoyed it enough and hell, I turned out OK, I got friends who've been stabbed way more times than me. But they gotta do something about all those drunken Indians. It's not right people should act like that.