strangely duluth MN had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the world in the early 19th century. But it is a fucking swamp. If I could go back in time and ask the largely scandinavian immigrants what they were doing when they moved here, I'd have told them "what the fuck, pick ANYWHERE else, chicago, east coast, west coast, not fucking HERE, i mean even canada is better, the next lowest step down from northern minnesota is literally fucking greenland or alaska, what the fuck are you doing here, i mean what the fuck are you doing here, this is a fucking swamp, there is a reason they were advertising people to colonize it because its a god damn swamp"
im not joking all of that is true from the heart