<p>City mice & country mice:</p>
<p>We left the 'burbs 20+ years ago for rather rural areas and when i go visit my D in Berkeley, I am amazed at the street noise- every place she has ever lived seems to have trash pick up daily at 5am…I need the quiet, though I do enjoy the convenience of all the great walk-to restaurants. MY D who attended uni in SoCal has commented on the fact that the one thing she misses is the ability to stop by any store to run any errnad “on the way home” There are so many possible routes home that everything is on the way, whereas all her growing up years, it was a “trip to town” not quite Little House on the Praire, but it seemed close to that. When you live in the country, you just don’t bother with some errands and every trip to town for dumb little things is a big deal.</p>