RE: My Window into the Past
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Things are always a bit behind here where I live. We didn't have the hype like that like they do in the big cities. I do remember licensed to ill coming out. Someone had it on the bus and was so excited. Even today phrases and lingo that are cool I hear from my nieces month before they make it up to the small town where we live and work. Which is odd given how fast the Internet allows stuff to spread these days.
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The fact that life is a little slower there has its own charm. I could see myself settling in a small town or village somewhere. Big cities definitely aren't all they're cracked up to be these days.
I like visiting big cities, but I don't think I could live in one. Columbus is unique in the fact that you can be right in the city, but you go a mile or so one way or the other and you are suddenly in the middle of a farm field. Those communities in the 270 circle all have their own charm.
I preferred cities until the riots of 2020 and the decline that's taken place since then. We've been finding crack pipes on the ground around our neighborhood and witnessed someone smoking it the other day just a few hundred feet from a playground. We call the police and nothing happens. It's crazy. At least during the crack epidemic of the 1980's the police would respond to calls. I think this is the atmosphere in most larger US cities right now.
Columbus is special that way. It's really a patchwork of smaller towns that have been incorporated in the city over the decades. So many of them have their own uniqueness. I always liked Clintonville and the surrounding area. It was far enough away from downtown but was a really solid middle-class community that was walkable, had parks, and small local businesses. As far as I know it's still that way.
Sounds like you might be contemplating a move back home? Michigan is always nice too and the cost of living is awesome if you stay away from the west side of the state. Only 4 hours to Columbus too! That's too bad that things are going this route. I once found needles on my front lawn, but the cops figured some diabetic just lost their kit.
I'd really like to move back to be closer to my family but I'm unsure if we will. Lately, we've been looking into getting second passports and then, possibly, renouncing our US citizenship eventually. The opportunities to do that are dwindling fast. St. Kitts used to be an option for access to Europe but it was super expensive and they're imposing changes soon to make it even more difficult for American citizens. Ireland still has a great path to citizenship through residency. You can live there three years and then apply for citizenship for next to nothing as long as you can prove you have a way to support yourself financially. Their passport is unique because it gives you access to the entire EU and you can also live in and buy property in England. It's such a huge and complicated decision but Ireland would be a much easier and cheaper home base for our travels. We would probably keep dual citizenship until we were 100% sure we were comfortable there. The only downside is we'd see less of our family. It would be totally up to us to make it back to the US because we couldn't assume anyone would or could visit us there. I'm glad it was just medical supplies and not drug paraphernalia!
Yeah, that is a tough situation. I don't know as though I could make a decision like that. Moving away from my friends and family would be the deal breaker for me. Even when I was looking at a job down in Ohio, there was a lot of dread about needing to start all over again. I mean sure we would have wife's sister and her family down there, but all the friends and everything would be tough. Even just being 4 hours away.
It certainly is a tough decision! We'll see what the future brings.