Home, again...
Something happened.
I was in Oakhurst Village, having a sangria at Billy Goat's Cantina, with Mose, and my friend Aimee.
There were cedar chips soft below me, and a strange weave of kudzu and Xmas lights above, and there were dogs and babies, and the city lights a few miles off, and a rundown shed in the distance. And suddenly I realized that I'm finally falling for Atlanta!
It's weird, not quite like the way I've fallen for other places. It's slow, gradual, seeping in.
It's about the combination of things I have here: a 4 bedroom brick house CHEAP, less than 2 miles from friends and cool places to go, summer heat, the tangled overgrowth of green that means "the south" to me, mountains, waterfalls, jobs and city life, inexpensive easy airfare, friends.
It's a combination you can't find everywhere... cheap good food and lots of trees and a few hours to the beach, and a few hours to the mountains, major industry and universities and the ability to buy a home in a city of 5 million
New York will always be cooler, but I'd be living in a studio with a screaming baby and a frustrated dog.
Baltimore will always be my hometown, but there aren't the same opportunities there, and Chris wouldn't be happy.
Iowa will always be calmer, easier, but it's tiny.
So for now... Atlanta is feeling really really good. Not just as a compromise, but as a place I'm learning to love.
It really does feel like an organic growth is happening here, like things are building, and I'm a part of it.
Very very good.
I was in Oakhurst Village, having a sangria at Billy Goat's Cantina, with Mose, and my friend Aimee.
There were cedar chips soft below me, and a strange weave of kudzu and Xmas lights above, and there were dogs and babies, and the city lights a few miles off, and a rundown shed in the distance. And suddenly I realized that I'm finally falling for Atlanta!
It's weird, not quite like the way I've fallen for other places. It's slow, gradual, seeping in.
It's about the combination of things I have here: a 4 bedroom brick house CHEAP, less than 2 miles from friends and cool places to go, summer heat, the tangled overgrowth of green that means "the south" to me, mountains, waterfalls, jobs and city life, inexpensive easy airfare, friends.
It's a combination you can't find everywhere... cheap good food and lots of trees and a few hours to the beach, and a few hours to the mountains, major industry and universities and the ability to buy a home in a city of 5 million
New York will always be cooler, but I'd be living in a studio with a screaming baby and a frustrated dog.
Baltimore will always be my hometown, but there aren't the same opportunities there, and Chris wouldn't be happy.
Iowa will always be calmer, easier, but it's tiny.
So for now... Atlanta is feeling really really good. Not just as a compromise, but as a place I'm learning to love.
It really does feel like an organic growth is happening here, like things are building, and I'm a part of it.
Very very good.
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