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Originally Posted by girlgun
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Some. A few pretty good friends, in fact. I just am not feeling the love for the place. It's boring, backward, even in its larger cities.
It has nice vacation spots, especially in the mountains and near the ocean, so I guess I shouldn't bitch. There's some beauty here and there. But I'm more of a city boy than a nature boy, and there's not much in the way of a good cosmopolitan city here.
Let me put it in terms of what I gave up back in the small college town I came from:
--Good independent bookstores.
--More than one independent record store in a 50-mile radius.
--Non-chain restaurants of any kind.
--A range of really good domestic microbrews in almost every grocery store, so many I couldn't possibly sample them all in a year if I bought a different six pack every week.
--Reasonably priced organic food and other coop type grocery stores. (There are a couple here but they are outrageously overpriced.)
--Quality department stores like Nordstroms.
--A vibrant local band kind of music scene.
--An accessible, large public library.
--Art museums.
--Public transportation. (None here in my town now. None! Amazing...)
All this in a town of under 50,000, too. I felt like I was living in NYC.
So I guess it has a lot to do with being spoiled by all that.