The Costs and Benefits of Living in the Middle of Nowhere
Laura Marie
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I’m the team Big City mascot. I grew up in big cities in East and Southern Africa. If you wanted a knife sharpened, you just went downstairs and yelled for someone. Now, in New York, I walk 1 block to a locksmith. I cannot drive, and am not interested in learning to do so. I am too accustomed to extreme convenience, i.e. everything you could possibly need within a 5-block radius. Were I to have a family, I might go back to Africa. My job is pretty specialized (pharma consultancy handling Africa accounts), so there’s really nowhere else in the U.S. I could find work.