Why ithaca?
Posted 01-09-2013 at 10:45 AM by peterjr
After a year long search for the "perfect place" to relocate, retire, semi-retire, start a new life, a new job, a new career, any or all of the above,
my Good Friend and I will be settling in the Ithaca / Finger Lakes region of NY.
What were we seeking? what were we looking for?
It became a listing out of preferences which helped to establish a criteria which helped us in making the ultimate decision; that decision and the criteria used to decide will vary in each and everyone of us, depending on our age and our social and economic status. ..our likes and dislikes. Lord knows i scanned enough of the top ten places to retire the top twenty places not to, the top six healthiest and the top .... there are many reviews, many hypsters and hucksters ready to sell their part of the country. One conclusion I came to was: I Didn't let the minimal differnce in cost of living and taxes sway me in deciding as much as quality of life issues. This may seem obivious to some.
So to cut short an already too long Blog........
WHY ITHACA??
It is Gorges.
It has great cultural facilities.
It has Cornell and all the great things an internationally renowned University can offer.
The state parks which shelter somewhat many of the gorges from development. The lakes themselves. The Art and Science and Cheese and Wine trails.
The list grew and grew as we realized more and more, that pound for pound
the Finger Lakes region had much to offer.
There is a certain energy, a vitality which the young people and their teachers bring to the area.
It is pervasive and i think for me to pick it apart here will allow the magic to somehow dissolved. Like picking apart the golden goose only to lose the golden egg. Suffice to say every time I turn around I am pleasantly surprised by the cultural diversity, the advanced environmental and spiritual depth of the area. Did I mention all the vineyards and distilleries and organic farms of all sorts. Then there is the cheese trail. and oh yeah the farmers markets in Ithaca and Trumansburgh. But it is also the people I have met so far and continue to meet either on line or in person.
Overall enlightened and wanting to make the world their world a better place.
I somehow have put on the rose colored glasses of newness. Is there an opposing side to my view of this world our world? I would be interested to know. Have we chosen as wisely as we think we have, in choosing Ithaca to rettledown?
Oh yeah one last thing. I think it is wrong to place more value on the last belch of gas deep below the surface of the earth than on the value our of limited
water supplies Protecting this resource which should be our ultimate priority.
my Good Friend and I will be settling in the Ithaca / Finger Lakes region of NY.
What were we seeking? what were we looking for?
It became a listing out of preferences which helped to establish a criteria which helped us in making the ultimate decision; that decision and the criteria used to decide will vary in each and everyone of us, depending on our age and our social and economic status. ..our likes and dislikes. Lord knows i scanned enough of the top ten places to retire the top twenty places not to, the top six healthiest and the top .... there are many reviews, many hypsters and hucksters ready to sell their part of the country. One conclusion I came to was: I Didn't let the minimal differnce in cost of living and taxes sway me in deciding as much as quality of life issues. This may seem obivious to some.
So to cut short an already too long Blog........
WHY ITHACA??
It is Gorges.
It has great cultural facilities.
It has Cornell and all the great things an internationally renowned University can offer.
The state parks which shelter somewhat many of the gorges from development. The lakes themselves. The Art and Science and Cheese and Wine trails.
The list grew and grew as we realized more and more, that pound for pound
the Finger Lakes region had much to offer.
There is a certain energy, a vitality which the young people and their teachers bring to the area.
It is pervasive and i think for me to pick it apart here will allow the magic to somehow dissolved. Like picking apart the golden goose only to lose the golden egg. Suffice to say every time I turn around I am pleasantly surprised by the cultural diversity, the advanced environmental and spiritual depth of the area. Did I mention all the vineyards and distilleries and organic farms of all sorts. Then there is the cheese trail. and oh yeah the farmers markets in Ithaca and Trumansburgh. But it is also the people I have met so far and continue to meet either on line or in person.
Overall enlightened and wanting to make the world their world a better place.
I somehow have put on the rose colored glasses of newness. Is there an opposing side to my view of this world our world? I would be interested to know. Have we chosen as wisely as we think we have, in choosing Ithaca to rettledown?
Oh yeah one last thing. I think it is wrong to place more value on the last belch of gas deep below the surface of the earth than on the value our of limited
water supplies Protecting this resource which should be our ultimate priority.
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