I also did not come to some great epiphany about being able to lead a full life without the internet. What I realized instead was that I really, really, really like internet access, but that it is possible for me to survive a week without it.
It was a tough week, though.
I discovered that I am a city person, despite having spent the majority of my life living in the suburbs. I get twitchy if I can't walk to a store and/or a restaurant. I do not like driving for a long time just to go to Wal-Mart. Gravel roads make me nervous. I like traffic lights.
My in-laws are lovely people, but they get twitchy in places that are crowded. My mother-in-law thinks it's worth it to drive an hour out of her way to avoid "traffic" (meaning lots of other people on the road, not actual stop and go stuff). They are very much country people.
I appreciate the view of the night sky from their deck, the fact that my kids could ride the go-cart around their property ad nauseam and the lack of nosy neighbors. And that's where my appreciation of country living ends. I could live in a small country town, I think, if I had to. But not all isolated and In Cold Blood
like, not where getting snowed in can last for a week, not where no one delivers pizza.Still, it was worth it to watch the kids with their grandparents and great-grandmother and other family members. I'm just hoping that the next time we visit, I'll have a cell phone that actually works there. Or they will have gotten the internet. Though I'll still be twitchy, at least then I'll have some distractions.
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I'm somewhere in between. I refuse to go places because I won't drive on crowded highways (and I don't mean stop and go either- I mean where people are in your immediate vicinity while driving at 50+ mph). Even the Disney World roads make me nervous.
On the other hand, I don't like having to drive more than 15 minutes to get somewhere, and more than half an hour is flat out. If other people are doing the driving, fine, but not me behind the wheel. I always tell people that my dream is one of those fictional sheep farms in Scotland that are about a mile away from town. Where nobody lives close enough to bug me, but it's just a short bike ride to the pub if *I* want socialization. :-)
I'm a homebody though, and I no longer like to eat out often. Just give me a good way to do groceries, gorgeous rugged landscapes, a fire, my books, and some yarn, thread, and fabric, and I'm pretty much good.
I grew up in the Midwest
then moved to California.
Loved it there.
My husband is from a very sm town
I have a really hard time going to visit his patents there. They don't even have a grocery store . You have to go to the next town.
That's too small for me.
But I sure makes you appreciate it all when you get back home.
Word! Glad your back. Single and Double Z Moms tried to fill in but they don't share your ironic voice (frankly)
I grew up in the country but not all In Cold Blood like. Nice image by the way I totally get what your saying.No phone OR no internet are annoying as hell but both? That is simply un-Americian!
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