My experience is a little muddled and confused. When I was growing up my family moved a total of thirteen times before I graduated from high school, so I've lived practically all over, the only exception being a real inner city downtown experience. But from deeply rural to urban-suburban, I've got it covered.
I've had my fill of rural. It's not all it's cracked up to be. I think a lot of people I know romanticize it, maybe they think of bliss and tranquility and flowers, or maybe they just think "Ah, I get to hide away from people!", but honestly, it's just boring. My parents lived deep in the woods of Connecticut for two of those thirteen houses, the longest stays in one place of any of our moves. When you're in high school and you live so far out in the wilderness that you have to drive a half hour to get to Taco Bell, it does not help your social life. So yeah, I'm done with rural!
Personally, I love suburbia. I think it gets an undeserved rap. I mean come on, it's great. Every convenience imaginable is a ten minute car trip away. And probably there's a small corner shop in walking distance. I think where I live right now is just about perfect -- I'm in a pretty quiet suburban neighborhood which just happens to be walking distance to downtown San Jose. In about fifteen minutes I can be at the corner of First and Santa Clara, or down at the Camera One theater, or anywhere all around the SJSU campus. And when I get home, I'm back in quiet suburbia! Perfect.
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Date: 2004-06-24 10:27 (UTC)I've had my fill of rural. It's not all it's cracked up to be. I think a lot of people I know romanticize it, maybe they think of bliss and tranquility and flowers, or maybe they just think "Ah, I get to hide away from people!", but honestly, it's just boring. My parents lived deep in the woods of Connecticut for two of those thirteen houses, the longest stays in one place of any of our moves. When you're in high school and you live so far out in the wilderness that you have to drive a half hour to get to Taco Bell, it does not help your social life. So yeah, I'm done with rural!
Personally, I love suburbia. I think it gets an undeserved rap. I mean come on, it's great. Every convenience imaginable is a ten minute car trip away. And probably there's a small corner shop in walking distance. I think where I live right now is just about perfect -- I'm in a pretty quiet suburban neighborhood which just happens to be walking distance to downtown San Jose. In about fifteen minutes I can be at the corner of First and Santa Clara, or down at the Camera One theater, or anywhere all around the SJSU campus. And when I get home, I'm back in quiet suburbia! Perfect.