While I am truly enjoying nature, up here in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, I am acutely aware of the fact that I will be a City Girl 'til I die. I love animals, the trees, greenery, lakes and streams, all the majesty of nature. It is important to my well-being, both mental and spiritual, to commune with nature. For me, nature is a huge physical reminder of the beauty of God. I am grateful to be out here for this mini-vacation. I really am.
However.
The "mall-culture" (yes, those are snotty quotation marks), and having to drive everywhere, and the lack of diversity in these neighborhoods, well, I'm starting to get an overwhelming sense of "get me back to the city quiiiiick!!!". Everyone keeps telling me that it's a much better place to raise a child in, but that's hogwash to me. The city is a fine place to raise children if you do a fine job raising them. Urban areas get a bad rap. Meth labs are a suburban phenomenon, you don't see them in Manhattan.
I'm not knocking suburbia, I know it has many benefits. There's something to be said for the lawns and backyards, actually knowing who lives next to you and Halloween Trick or Treating through a leaf-strewn neighborhood you feel comfortable letting your kids run through on their own. I get it. To each their own forms of happiness. I'm just saying that when I move out of Manhattan to give Theo a "better life" (there go those snotty quotation marks again), it'll probably only be to right across the Brooklyn Bridge.
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3 comments:
I'm a City Girl all the way! Nothing wrong with raising a child in the city. It's even eco-friendly because you drive less and walk more.
Me too. I moved to the 'burbs of Glasgow...the city is 10 minutes away by train, 15 by car. No what I'm sayin'? ;O) I'm a city girl and that is just that. I get my kicks walking up hills when I can and Glasgow means 'Dear Green Place' so lots of parks and rural, wonderful walking areas. But still...me needs my shops, my pubs and my restaurants. :O)
I;m a little jealous, although I lived on the outskirts of Boston for years, I am now north of the city by an hour in a great place. I always have felt like I missed an opportunity to live in the city. (and I LOVE it when we go to NYC!)
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