>>A sense of place, of rootedness gives me a measure of peace and comfort. Pity you’ll never understand that.<<
Your anger exposes you. I made no judgement as to whether a city was good or bad. I merely said many people live in or near them. I was born and raised in the Los Angeles area. My job has put me in sattle, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Fort Worth Richmond, Vancouver (BC), Kansas City, Santa Barbara, San Diego, New York and a few others (never in DC).
Your desire to live away from the city is a personal preference. But it doesn’t make the bulk of Americans who live that way go away. It does not make my upbringing (1/4 acre suburban Craftsman BTW) nor my current decision on my domicile any less valid than yours.
Are you asserting some sort of “country living” superiority argument?
Your “anger” schtick is getting old, freedumb2003. You’ve demonstrated throughout this thread that you don’t understand people like me. I live in a county with over 300,000 people. That’s pretty urban to most of the country. I’m just out in the far reaches, more horsey than agricultural these days. But, that’s neither here nor there.
Who’s angry and who’s not is evident. Whose mind is open and whose is not is evident as well. I live where I live and enjoy it. You’ve apparently lived a bedouin life from city to city. Here’s to hoping that you find whatever it is that you’re chasing after. Maybe you’ll finally be happy and at peace, and the constant little digs directed at anyone with the temerity to live differently from you or to see things differently from you will disappear from your communications.
I suspect not, but again, there’s always hope.