‘I’ll never understand that mindset. Leaving that mess for a Rural Red part of the nation was very easy, especially given the mess these cities have become...’
Some people derive energy from being in close proximity to many other people. Our daughter was raised in suburban St Louis, MO. She went to Catholic HS in the city’s Central West End, University in the Chicago area at Dominican. Degree in Apparel Design & Merchandising. She works in fashion, took a promotion from Chicago to NYC in 2014. Lives in Brooklyn and worked in Midtown until 2019, now works in Brooklyn. She gets energy from her physical environment. When we have visited, I just feel completely drained. Far too many people, far too close together, too much room for anything to go wrong. Now it has. We’ll see what happens.
I grew up in Brooklyn, and left in the early 70s when I got married. I’ve been back to the old neighborhood once for a reunion of app fifty of my old pals. Not one of us remained in Brooklyn, or NYC. Good luck to your daughter. I bet she lives in either Williamsburg, Greenpoint or Fort Green (gentrification might have changed these names to something more trendy):)