This was one of the prettiest locations I've ever lived in, and I credit it for giving me such a strong attraction to trees. I don't ever want to have a home without some greenery. That house also had an epic deck (necessary for grilling and parties), a barn (necessary for projects and macho outdoor things), and an awesome full finished basement with a pool table, fireplace, office, living room, kitchen, and bathroom (necessary for cranking it up to 11).
Looking at the picture, its pretty obvious that we weren't in close proximity to big cities. Hell, I don't think there were even cable lines going out there. When my family moved to Louisville in 1996 my sisters and I were kind of overloaded with all the amenities we had at our fingertips.
That being said, though, when my time comes to raise a family, I'd take a home like this into consideration. We had a lot of privacy. We had a lot of space to adventure in. We developed a strong work ethic (mowing, raking, collecting maple sap, etc.). And we had awesome parties. There was just a lot of room to grow.
I don't think I'll ever get used to living so close to a neighbor that I can look in their windows or hear their music playing from next door. And it makes me manic when I see new mini-mansions being built close to another home. Why wouldn't a builder want some space? Where are all the trees?
Oh well. I suppose its all part of growing up and adapting to your environment. I think I adapted to Louisville relatively quickly. And I feel comfortable now in the NYC area. The traffic has never bothered me. I still get amazed by how many people live so close to each other here. There are probably 3x as many people in a city block in NYC than there were in the entire village I went to school in. Also, check out this statistic from Wikipedia:
The racial makeup of the village was 99.48% White, 0.15% African American, and 0.37% from two or more races.Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.22% of the population.
Its incredible how big a village like that can seem to a child, and how small it seems now that I'm living up here. I suppose anyone makes that realization when they get older. There's always a bigger picture to take into consideration. I try to keep this in mind whenever I begin to feel like I'm the center of the universe. There's so much out in the world to learn. There are so many people in the world to meet. So much to see. So much to taste. So many places to go. Geez.
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