>>1868473> Whenever I'm in Bavaria and it's countryside particular it's healing and detoxing.I can't wait to show my now still a bit too young family around my old stomping grounds, some absolute gems around.
I think the culture of moving around for jobs screws us over majorly. I haven't realized it until I stopped doing it.
Setting up a local social circle and making your town nice is hard work, why invest into it if you will be gone in year or two.
Things I used to take for granted like having nice cemeteries, places that essentially allow you to transfer your culture to the next generation even beyond the grave stop making sense.
Wife has some family buried in Ohio, how often do we wanna go to Ohio to light a candle and tell our kids about who grand-whatever was so they better understand where they came from?
Sometimes I wonder how it got to point that looking out my window to see some random mesquite thicket in bunghole Texas became preferable to my home town. It's just peaceful man, few people I run into are all nice, nobody bothers me about what I do besides the IRS.