Big City Living

I don't know about you, but for me: location is everything. I live in a bigger metropolis, although not a "big city" (I live in Minneapolis, MN) so I get a little taste of it all: close suburbs, city crime, crappy inner-city school systems, horrible traffic in the day time, and so on. But I love it, it's where I was born and raised - it's become a huge part of me. I'm just accustomed to it and I couldn't imagine living anywhere else - I couldn't imagine living off of a dirt road out in the country. I couldn't imagine not having 500,000+ new people to meet in my city, I couldn't imagine being more than 3 miles away from a shopping mall. I just couldn't do it. I like city living, or at least in the small city I live in. There are always new shops, restaurants, casinos, movie theaters, book stores, coffee shops, and so on - there's always something to do. I think it plays a huge part in your personality and how you develop as a person. For example, in the city, we are largely non-racist people who usually have different priorities and daily schedules than those who live in the suburbs or country. I seriously couldn't imagine living anywhere else.

wait a sec. i live in houston. fthe same houston? as in texas??? when did this become a big city? lol. did i miss something. when did it become anything other than southernly rural. if i came from houston, i might as well have come from alabama, or mississipi. utah and montana is very rural, but the nice and pretty kind of rural. this is just the south. let me give you my rendition of houston: -hot -dealy humid 10 months for year -everything is at least 100 miles away from each other -down town closes at 6pm when the down town office workers go home -clubs closes at 12pm..ok, some at 1pm. lol. most city people are just comming in -the homeless get in trouble for being homeless -you better have a car cause transpo bites -they just got a train system in the new mellienium trying to sell houston to outsiders as a big happening city. lol. -buses run every 45 minutes, if it's a good route???!!!! -the laws are as strict as nazi germany -cops harrass innocent people for the sport of it (never me, but friends who did not deserve it and where not criminals. -people hear are as conservative as old dixie -the sprit of old dixie and the general lee is still alive in hazzard county, boss hogg. make no mistake about it. you can feel it in the air -illegal immigrants are taking over the city and draining resources from u.s citizens - the school systems are something else. that really trips me out -it's hard to get started cause the laws are so strict. and don't mess up cause you are in bite me mode for life in houston, probably in texas. that's what it seem like from what friends have gone through. even myself and my family to some extent. -utilities can be equal or even more than your rent...engergy capital of the world! -the building are beautiful and new, but that's about it. the building in chicago and L.A, and NYC are more beautiful. they have character and history. -the valor of houston represents a place that is trying to catch up with the rest of cities after like, 100 years. that's all the newness means. -it's a large area, with a few big pretty buildings downtown, full of country minded people, ran by country people and you can tell it. everyone can when they first come here. i won't even go on any more. i just can't wait to get on a bus back home. that is what we are working so hard for

I guess its good to speculate but what we have is what it is unless we set about to changing it. Its great to speculate that the grass is greener on the otherside but there is nothing new under the sun. We might as well dig in to the opportunity we have before and use those to try to expand our horizons.