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Sallie Borrink
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Topic starter August 24, 2021 3:54 pm  

What happens when you leave the big cities and discover the rest of America?

This summer, in an attempt to restore some sense of normality to our lives, our family embarked on two separate road trips and racked up over 4,000 miles in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and then California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. We departed on both trips from Los Angeles, the most populous county and the second-largest city in the United States. Before the pandemic, many inhabitants of large cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C. or Chicago (including me!) couldn’t imagine living somewhere smaller—somewhere less diverse, less cultural, less sophisticated.

https://amgreatness.com/2021/08/16/america-the-beautiful-is-small/

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September 3, 2021 10:55 am  

Beautiful!!


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September 3, 2021 11:17 am  

Great article! We love our small town.


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November 26, 2021 11:58 am  

I grew up in what would probably be classified as a "midsize" American city, and now I live outside (thankfully) of a small town that is home to a private, liberal arts college.  I am so thankful that my husband was insistent on moving our family out of the city years ago.  At the time he pitched the idea to me, I thought much like the author of this article about life outside the city, but now as I enjoy the quiet and the beauty of the farmers' fields all around me, I have to say, I'm hoping never to have to move back.  I have to admit, I was mildly insulted by some of the author's comparisons of "sophisticated" city dwellers being so much better than simple country folk, but I'm glad she reached the conclusions she did at the end of the article.  


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