Thinking of Austin

[Spookmeister]

Sometimes I wonder what it is about people and the "When I move somewhere, there'd better be as many, if not more, of those like me". Nothing wrong with wanting/needing the security blanket of the familiar, but to the point of it becoming a deciding factor on where to live seems a little too much.
Personally, and let me preface that by saying, it's not like I'd have much of a choice anyway, that has been the last thing considered, almost to the point of indifference. If I like(d) the place and could see myself living there on my five-year plans, then it's a go. If the people turned out to be blue, green, yellow, pink or purple, it mattered not, as long as we could get along. If more came of it, and it did sometimes, great, but I never left a place because there weren't enough people like me...If anything, I encouraged them to come along on my adventures, then left them there when the bug bit!

[misslisa]

Oh, I agree with you because as a military brat, I have lived all over the place with all types of people. However, that being said, I also know what it is like as a child to be always around children who weren't like me and it didn't really bother me. Now as an adult, I don't want my children to be placed into a situation where there is no one like them anywhere in the school because that is not what they are currently used to. It would be nice to say that they would be fine no matter where they are but that really isn't true. Exposure to diversity in every aspect (race, religion, beliefs, ethnicities, economics) is a good thing because that is how we grow and learn other points of view. I see nothing wrong with that criteria being a deciding factor in the way in which I want to raise my family.