a rural sigh
Saturday, October 25, 2008
I just got back last night from a couple night's stay in Canada's answer to the Metropolis and now that I am safely shielded in my familiar rural darkness, I find myself much more comfortable again. I lived in Southern Ontario for years and when I go to visit, be it for work or to visit those in my family that I still talk to, I can't wait to get back home.
Yes, there's a shitload of things to do, but I think that is just distraction, otherwise everyone would go nuts when they realized that they are living on top of each other in tiny spaces, and paying through the ass to do it. So the place is filled with shows, and 5 million places to eat, and 2 hours of traffic to go 3 kms.
That being said, when you do visit, its nice for the tourist to have access to those distractions too. I attended a few shows at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival while fitting in some work, and they were awesome. 'Mutant Chronicles' was probably way better with a bunch of genre fans than it has any right to be. But it was a good time. And 'Home Movie' was just plain fucking creepy. Really disturbing. So it was a lot of fun.
But 2 days of something to do to keep me from remembering how much I hate city life still didn't really do its job. Because coming back I remember why I moved, and that I am never living down there again.
Yes, there's a shitload of things to do, but I think that is just distraction, otherwise everyone would go nuts when they realized that they are living on top of each other in tiny spaces, and paying through the ass to do it. So the place is filled with shows, and 5 million places to eat, and 2 hours of traffic to go 3 kms.
That being said, when you do visit, its nice for the tourist to have access to those distractions too. I attended a few shows at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival while fitting in some work, and they were awesome. 'Mutant Chronicles' was probably way better with a bunch of genre fans than it has any right to be. But it was a good time. And 'Home Movie' was just plain fucking creepy. Really disturbing. So it was a lot of fun.
But 2 days of something to do to keep me from remembering how much I hate city life still didn't really do its job. Because coming back I remember why I moved, and that I am never living down there again.
Labels: everything else, rants
posted by raistlinsghost at 10/25/2008 08:21:00 PM
4 Comments:
Dude, you haven't been around lately. >:
Thats my little angry face there.
That is a very cute angry face.
I have been blogging, just the micro variety. I have been using the hell out of twitter but haven't paid much attention to this site. I'll try to post more often, but I think the twitters are going to be the downfall of the personal blogs.
dammit. I have to learn to twitter now?
I have to disagree with the rural love (that sounds disgusting but you know what I meant hopefully). I'm city folk through and through. I don't think I'd want to raise my children living in downtown NYC or anything but I do enjoy being all of 5 miles outside Pittsburgh.
That being said who knows if later on I might change my tune. There might be a small town out there somewhere that has everything I'd want for my family. I just know that the small towns and rural areas I've seen in Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Minnesota all depressed me almost immediately.
I do agree with the Twitter comments though because I know Twitter has certainly reduced the frequency of my full-sized posts.
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