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Nostalgia is usually for a time when you were happy. Some people are nostalgic for the army. Some are nostalgic for high school (yech). Some for when they were single and carefree. The common denominator is happiness, not the situation.
If you find a place where you are happy now, it probably won't be what made you happy before.
Although it was in my case, sort of. I didn't have a happy childhood but I had a horse that I rode alone in the big natural park near my house. I was happy then. Now I'm retired .... and I have a horse that I ride alone in the big natural park near my house. Everything else has changed, but I'm happy again in just the same way I was before.
They say that you can never go back and don't live in the past. Good thing for you at this stage in life you are happy again as the way you were before.
“Boring” depends so much on the individual that the term is almost meaningless.
For a few yrs we lived where people said there wasn’t enough for the kids to do, meaning lack of malls and age-focused hangouts. Yet I saw young kids who went out after school on the sea in their own Zodiacs, no adults involved. How many urban or suburban kids have the chance to really learn seafaring things, hands-on, on a daily basis? They could also roam on plentiful city and county lands gorging themselves on ubiquitous wild berries, or ride bikes all over, learn woodworking (that was a big thing there), or indulge in the arts.
Here in the inland SW, I’ve also heard laments from ADULTS that “kids don’t have anything to do.” BS! For starters, aside from many of them needing to do better at schoolwork, they can ride horses (many have their own horses), ride bikes or motorized things, target practice, hike, and more. Just because someplace lacks shopping mallanzas does not = “nothing to do.” Those adults must consider shopping to be entertainment.
Different strokes.
Just two different kinds of lifestyles. More outdoors and active physically. Places of congregation like malls or shopaholics just two different types of kids. Out in the woods fishing, biking, shooting vs. hanging out at the mall people watching.
Depends on what you consider a small town? I grew up in a small town by NJ standards of around 10k people. Everybody knew everybody until urban sprawl hit us and now it is a completely different town. Now that I am past middle age I don't have any nostalgic feeling about it anymore.
In my travels across the country and passing through some really small towns, primarily in the mid-west, and your neighbor is a mile away I think about the people that live there and how different their life would be than what I am used too. Everybody has a different life story.
Depends on what you consider a small town? I grew up in a small town by NJ standards of around 10k people. Everybody knew everybody until urban sprawl hit us and now it is a completely different town. Now that I am past middle age I don't have any nostalgic feeling about it anymore.
In my travels across the country and passing through some really small towns, primarily in the mid-west, and your neighbor is a mile away I think about the people that live there and how different their life would be than what I am used too. Everybody has a different life story.
Under a 1000 folks would be a small town. The smallest town I lived in was 349 folks. We knew everyone. The only way to travel out of it was by plane. I liked it. I still cherish those days of living there.
I think this is mainly nostalgia for a certain period in your younger years. You're seeing it through sepia-toned glasses. It sounds to me like you should consider moving somewhere else, that isn't NY nor FL. The humidity must get to be a drag, no? You might look for other places to check out. How portable is your job/line of work?
To answer your broader question, small-town (or small-er town) living can be very attractive. You get used to there being not much traffic, and no huge freeways to deal with. I don't think I could ever go back to living in an enormous, multi-city metropolitan area.
Under a 1000 folks would be a small town. The smallest town I lived in was 349 folks. We knew everyone. The only way to travel out of it was by plane. I liked it. I still cherish those days of living there.
Yes I would consider that figure to be a small town.
Under a 1000 folks would be a small town. The smallest town I lived in was 349 folks. We knew everyone. The only way to travel out of it was by plane. I liked it. I still cherish those days of living there.
I think that would depend. How many people spread out across how many miles. I think it depends on the density.
I think this is mainly nostalgia for a certain period in your younger years. You're seeing it through sepia-toned glasses. It sounds to me like you should consider moving somewhere else, that isn't NY nor FL. The humidity must get to be a drag, no? You might look for other places to check out. How portable is your job/line of work?
To answer your broader question, small-town (or small-er town) living can be very attractive. You get used to there being not much traffic, and no huge freeways to deal with. I don't think I could ever go back to living in an enormous, multi-city metropolitan area.
I was thinking this yesterday myself while driving home from Huntsville. People don't realize just how much a lot of these smaller wonderful cities are being ruined by lots of construction and increased traffic. Tere's no way to stop it, though. No way to stop "progress" as I remember hearing my parents say when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s in Southern California.
I was thinking this yesterday myself while driving home from Huntsville. People don't realize just how much a lot of these smaller wonderful cities are being ruined by lots of construction and increased traffic. Tere's no way to stop it, though. No way to stop "progress" as I remember hearing my parents say when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s in Southern California.
I hate that word. “Progress”.
Total BS by those with an agenda.
There is a huge difference between actual and natural progress, and what these morons mean when they toss the p-word around.
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