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Poles Living in the Chicago Area [343]
@Rich Mazur
I'm not a big fan of Polish buffets or even buffets in general. Only buffet I like is the one open to 'vips' at four winds casino where I play a lot and even then it depends on the chef and what theyre serving. sometimes its disgusting, sometimes its better than a $40+ dinner at some posh restaurant.
@Joker
Yeah Belmont is going the way the rest of the Polish areas in the city - latinos taking it over. It's sad to see. I remember when I was a teen on may 3rd whole street would be filled up with poles, drinking beers, honking, waving flags out their cars, it was great! Now there's some businesses left but its gradually going down. We use to own a dentist office around that area on Addison and oak park and its still a polish dentist working there. Problem is that these commercial properties have INSANE property taxes. Our building was worth like 220-250k and when we sold it we were paying damn near $20k a year in just property taxes. And that was a few years back im sure it's gone up probably closer to 25 maybe even 30k now. It's insane that's basically 2.5k 3k a month going just to property taxes.
But yeah all the poles are moving out. The Poles that remain in the city are the very old generations the types that refuse to move and a lot of poles around my age where their parents lived in the city, then they moved to the suburbs, then after finishing college the kids moved back to the city. But they're very Americanized way more so than I am.
Also I think the reason why I was suspended is because I pointed out that if WW2 never happened Poland would be totally ruled by jews due to them being a huge chunk of the population only to increase even further and thus we'd have even more dual citizens than America. They're now gradually colonizing Poland from Israel and many more suddenly 'find their roots.' I just hope they don't start imposing the same agendas they do in other w European countries while keeping policies that resemble the third reich back in Israel - gay marriage illegal, no marriage certificates for mixed couples, forcefully moving muslims out of homes in Jerusalem, colonizing their lands, promotion of a homogeneous state, etc. Yet when we want the same in our country they call us racist, xenophobic, homophobic, etc. Unfortunately people never add the words 'just like israel' after supporting such a policy.