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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am I the only person who doesn't actually *want* things to be so much "easier"?  It feels so complacent.  There is so much work to be done in our world.  Yeah, the schools still need improvement and there's still too much crime.  Those are societal problems for which we all bear responsibility; me moving away doesn't make them any less my problem, and it probably even contributes to making them worse.

Plus, if I moved to the suburbs I would feel so much more disconnected from the cultural institutions and communities that make living in a major metro area worthwhile in the first place.  I want to be a contributor to society, not an idle consumer, and I'm fortunate enough to be able to live a modest middle class lifestyle in a city that gives me great opportunities to make some small difference in the world.  Why would I ever give that up?

Threads like this always leave me more convinced that I belong in the city.

One of the ways that I can tell that I'm meant to stay in the city is the way that people refer to things as being so much "easier" in the suburbs.  To be honest, I don't think I want things to be "easy" in the way that people describe.  It sounds so much like complacence.

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I want things to be easier because it allows me to focus on the important things in life, like family, friends and career. I don't want to be frustrated by the lack of parking spaces, pot smoke wafting onto my porch or piss puddles in the alley.[/quote]

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