city living

October 16

There are a lot of reasons to live near a city.

Here are several.

• being alone is great and necessary, but you’re always alone with the same people. You’re never surrounded by the same strangers—every experience will be different.

• If you feel and honor the draw to city life, it’s likely other people who are similar will do the same, like a magnet for all your interests.

• You won’t be the first or the last to try to make it here. Find the history, or leave a better path behind.

• There’s probably already a community of people into the thing you haven’t gotten into yet, and if there’s not, there’s probably enough people experiencing the same cultural movement as you to build a community with. Cities are a way of future proofing your interests.

• You’re more likely to find better food.

• It’s easier and possibly more virtuous to reject something you’ve experienced than it is to accept something you’ve never seen.

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