Living in a small town...
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I'm an East Coast girl at heart, that's all.
No way, I've got to be near one of the oceans! Plus, I HATE hot weather.
I've lived in cities all my life. I do think I've missed out on some of lives pleasures. It would have been so interesting to have had a traditional country upbringing, and have a knowledge of fishing, shooting, riding, plants, animals, and all those good things. A city upbringing has its benefits, but a balance of the two if at all possible is probably more ideal. In an ideal world, I would like to spend the latter years of my life in the country.
Mr. Laser Beam said:propita said:
Every time I hear the name Fresno I think of that one scene in Airplane II...
Damn! I love that character!!
Fresno ... because they wanted a city/bathroom break-- between Sacramento and Los Angeles.
Actually, though, there are some good things about Fresno. Have only one day off? Take a day trip to either Yosemite or Sequoia. Want fresh produce? Geez, go anywhere around here. Local wines? Maybe not Napa, but there's over a dozen wineries within 20 miles, including the local Cal State campus.
One nice thing, Fresno's close to just about everything in CA (like I said, it's in the middle of the state) but THERE'S NO EARTHQUAKES!! Once in a great while, there's shaking from an earthquake centered elsewhere, but no fault lines underneath, just compacted fill going down miles (where faults usually lie--no solid rock, no fault--and no liquifaction.
Wow. Almost (though not quite) everybody who has said he lives in a small town lives in a town much bigger than the one I live in, which just goes to show that definitions of small really vary. The little town I live in has just over 4,000 people.
I really like it because even though it's small, it's not too far from a fairly large city (Indianapolis - population around 1 million for the metro area), so I am not far from nearly all the big-city stuff I like from time to time, but I'm surrounded by the country stuff I like most of the time.
And by the way, although I live in Indiana, I grew up in California, and personally, I've always rather liked Fresno.
I really like it because even though it's small, it's not too far from a fairly large city (Indianapolis - population around 1 million for the metro area), so I am not far from nearly all the big-city stuff I like from time to time, but I'm surrounded by the country stuff I like most of the time.
And by the way, although I live in Indiana, I grew up in California, and personally, I've always rather liked Fresno.
I've always lived in one of the small suburbs that surround metropolitan areas in Italy, which are independently run but deeply interconnected with common infrastructures and services (right now I live in a small town of 8,600 souls in the Greater Milan Metro Area, about 4,800,00 people but strongly depending on definition).
Frankly, it does strike me as the best combination: attention to local needs and a sense of community, but the possibility to reach major points of interest in the Big City fast and cheaply.
Frankly, it does strike me as the best combination: attention to local needs and a sense of community, but the possibility to reach major points of interest in the Big City fast and cheaply.
Back in the day there used to be some corn fields between towns. It's incredible how much the Chicago suburbs have grown over the last decade!
The area i live in now used to be all dairy farms 60 years ago.
