What do you love about where you live?
Submitted by Emu with a Clue.
I live in Iowa and I like the fact that it's quiet and a relatively safe place to raise young kids (though I don't have kids myself). Although I was born in New York, I grew up here. I didn't like it at first because it was less exciting than New York but maybe it's grown on me or I just grew to be the type of person who doesn't crave too much excitement. Whatever it is, I'd probably get away from Iowa for a few years or a month but I'd definitely come back.
What have you lost that you wish you still had?
Submitted by gunderson bee.
My friend got me a Nancy Drew book plus one of the Hardy Boys. It was the new series. I read the Nancy Drew one, "False Notes" and I also read the graphic novel that she gave me... I don't remember what it was called. They were both a part of the many books I had in Connecticut with me while I was going to to school over there. Well, I got accepted to Iowa and my dad also had this crazy idea of coming to Iowa with me (after he told me that he'd never return to live there). We packed up all of our stuff hoping that nationwide would send a truck to our house... the first day, they didn't do it, then the next, and the next. Finally, my dad went with a new company. I don't remember the name of that one, but they moved our stuff. However, the estimate turned out to be lower than the actual cost so my dad couldn't pay and we ended up losing all our stuff, except for all of our music instruments and computers which were in the car with us. My dad lost a lifetime of vintage records and old books. He majored in Linguistics. Compared to him, I lost nothing. All I had was my printer, hair stuff, books, computer games, clothes, CDs and folders full of drawings. Anyway, I haven't read most of my books except for "False Notes" I haven't even looked at the Hardy Boys one. It stinks that most of that stuff I have to buy again, although I already played those games I had.
