No matter what I say....
Feb. 27th, 2004 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
e_julianaabout not really having a place immediately felt like "home", I love my city.
I love being 18 floors high in downtown, looking out the window and seeing a mix of gorgeous old stone and stone-faced buildings with lovely scroll details and window ledges and sleek, gleaming, bright glass buildings that evoke a future time for me. I love being able to see the Mississippi from a corner window on my floor. I love the neighborly feel, the sense of things being tidied up because we like how the city looks when it's clean.
As utterly indifferent to live music shows as I am, I love the absolute vitality of the music scene here. I love it when songs I thought were only played around the U of M campus pop up in different cities. I love seeing the influence the Cities have had and still have on the current music trends.
I love the theater community here. I love the fact that I have the opportunity to consistently work with a core group of people, and still be able to bring new talent in all the time.
I love my neighborhood. It's funky and older and contains some stunning apartment buildings at comparatively good prices, while being very centrally located. I can walk to two major museums, a co-op grocery, a gourmet grocery store, a liquor store, my auto mechanic, my drycleaners. There is a fantastic rib joint on the corner, a fun Polynesian/Chinese throwback restaurant just down the street, and a theater, kitty-corner from the rib joint.
There's problems, yeah. There's always problems when you get a mass of humans living on top of each other. The buses are going to strike, the snow didn't get plowed very well, there's more and more graffiti, jobs aren't showing up as we've been promised.
But this city makes me happy. I like it very much. My life? On the whole? Quite good. Yes.
I love being 18 floors high in downtown, looking out the window and seeing a mix of gorgeous old stone and stone-faced buildings with lovely scroll details and window ledges and sleek, gleaming, bright glass buildings that evoke a future time for me. I love being able to see the Mississippi from a corner window on my floor. I love the neighborly feel, the sense of things being tidied up because we like how the city looks when it's clean.
As utterly indifferent to live music shows as I am, I love the absolute vitality of the music scene here. I love it when songs I thought were only played around the U of M campus pop up in different cities. I love seeing the influence the Cities have had and still have on the current music trends.
I love the theater community here. I love the fact that I have the opportunity to consistently work with a core group of people, and still be able to bring new talent in all the time.
I love my neighborhood. It's funky and older and contains some stunning apartment buildings at comparatively good prices, while being very centrally located. I can walk to two major museums, a co-op grocery, a gourmet grocery store, a liquor store, my auto mechanic, my drycleaners. There is a fantastic rib joint on the corner, a fun Polynesian/Chinese throwback restaurant just down the street, and a theater, kitty-corner from the rib joint.
There's problems, yeah. There's always problems when you get a mass of humans living on top of each other. The buses are going to strike, the snow didn't get plowed very well, there's more and more graffiti, jobs aren't showing up as we've been promised.
But this city makes me happy. I like it very much. My life? On the whole? Quite good. Yes.
