re: #120 GeneJockey

Whenever I go home to visit Dad, I think, “It’s a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there!”

Interestingly, my parents both grew up in Pittsburgh, but lived almost all their adult lives in a small town, and really liked it. I grew up in that small town, and can’t stand the thought. Maybe when I retire and don’t want to do anything, the fact that there’s nothing to do won’t be an issue.

I saw that going to school in Pittsburgh after having lived in a small city and a village with nearby industry. I liked Pittsburgh (my parents were living in the eastern suburbs) and ended up living another 25 years there. People I went to school with had been born and raised in Pittsburgh and were dying to get out and supposedly never come back*.

* - I worked in D.C. with people from western PA who worked in D.C./northern VA until they wanted to start families - at which point they moved back to western PA to do so.