QotD: Everywhere Has Its Problems
What prevents your city/town from being the best place in the country to live?
Submitted by Cherney.
It takes me a while to warm up to a new place to live. When we first moved to Chicago, I remember driving down those endless crowded streets with their payday advance loans and their Mexican grocery stores and being terrified. It wasn't an easy adjustment. I remember Jenna's excited assurances that it would exciting, a fresh new place to live, and I just squeezed her hand in reply.
Eventually, after I got to walk around the neighborhood, I warmed up to Chicago. I got excited about the theater and the new and different restaurants and the museums and especially the lakefront. The longer I lived there, the more things I liked about Chicago. The drivers were still crazy, but I adapted to their unique brand of craziness. And I bought groceries from the SuperMercado. I even bought elotes from a street vendor. I liked Chicago.
And then we moved again.
And once again, it took me a while to warm up. We drove down those crooked, oddly named streets with their unpronounceable bakeries and total lack of ethnic food, and I was freaking out. But Jenna was excited about the bike paths and the local events and the beautiful view when the fog lifts from the bluffs, and I squeezed her hand again.
I love it here. I want to convince everyone I know to move here. I wake up and drive along the river and think, Is this really my home? We walk around the lake and I wonder how I could be so lucky. When I pull into the coffee shop, the owners know my order and when I go to the bakery, I get free donuts. It's a great place to live.
But would it kill them to open an Indian restaurant?
