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 love being in a small town. I live in town right now, but it is a rural farming community, all German Catholic. It reminds me so much of home, I only wish I could afford to be out just a little farther and not in a subdivision. I miss the country. It may be a boring life, but it is a simple life and well-suited to one of my extreme introverted bent.