The struggles of living in a small city
I've always been a little jealous of people who live in big cities, because often it's where there are more opportunities for anything. I know there is also a bad side of it like contamination, traffic and so more, but I still think that they have much more than me who lives in a small city. I feel restricted.
In top of that, my city feels like it's abandoned sometimes: bad streets, crime, bad public facilities, drainage leaking every day, etc. I'm used to it, but I feel like it's sad that I am.
Because I live in a small city, I've never been in a concert before, all artist I like only go to the capital or a few big cities, I get that, I know that it is what it is. And no, I can't travel to big cities either, they are far away (and also I don't have the money). So I'm just dreaming to when I finally can go to my favorite band's concert while I see the announcements of tours with other cities names who aren't mine.
I was also short for career options, thinking of studying unconventional majors was absurd so I went for a "safer" option. Obviously my local colleges can't offer all majors and moving out wasn't an option so studying music, literature or any kind of arts was immediately discarded.
What about work? well, of course tech jobs are almost non-existent here, so looking for a job my only options are remote ones or if I'm lucky, finding a job that allows me to live independently in another city, which hardly would become real because I just finished college and have cero experience.
Living in a small city it's not that bad though, yesterday I was talking with my grandparents (they live in a big city) and they told me that in my city you could see the moon and the stars very clearly, compare to were they live. I was very surprised, I knew about the starts, but the moon too? you can't see it? really? I think that it's one of the few privileges we have and it's a good one.
I still don't know if I want to live in a big city, there are a lot of these benefits I know and the struggles of living in a small city tempt me every day, but at the same time I think it'd be too noisy and crowded for me. I'd miss the moon too.
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