Freedom!

[LavCat]

Sucks to live in the city eh?

It depends on your city and on your temperament.

There is such a thing as taking a bit from each. House in the city, where there are restaurants that will actually serve something other than 'Mom's special hot beef sandwiches', theatres, museums, live music, stores with (gasp) selection, winter snow plows that arrive before you have to leave for work, etc. Cottage in the country, where you can live a quiet life.

Though I do not have a vehicle and can barely afford the rent, I find where I live to be ideal. This is a rural township (very) near a cosmopolitan small town. I have (in good weather when the stream's not high) a ten minute walk to work through wetlands where there are deer, herons, groundhogs. I even met an endangered wood turtle a couple of weeks ago.

Yet I am in walking distance of downtown (less so as I get older) where we have a world class art museum and libraries, and arguably world class theater. Decent symphony and opera, stores and restaurants. Four U.S. presidents have lived here, two signers of Declaration of Independence. The U.S. congress used to meet here as well. More parks and battlefields than I can count. I spent yesterday with my granddaughter in one of the newest parks. And the sky is even resonably dark at night.

In bad weather I have two pair of snowshoes.