It's OK to be a suburbanite. Why, you may ask, have I swallowed this Kool-Aid?
* The Safeways have carts that can seat 1 to 4 children and carry 2 weeks' worth of goodies
* The neighbor kids stop by and ask to play with the twins without charging me $20/hour for babysitting so I can have 25 minutes of peace to hustle dinner on the table
* The sound of crickets after dark, rather than sirens, screeching cabbie brakes, and raucous college kids first sampling Mad Dog 20/20
* Express DMV's
* People acknowledge your presence at bus stops and (gasp!) actually say g'morning
* The dogs are normal sized
* We know more neighbors in the other single-family homes on our block in 3 weeks than we did on our condo floor in 2 years
* All the big box stores and independent hardware stores are within a 10 minutes drive
* Drive through Mickey D's for coffee and ATMs
* My kids squealing with glee as they play in the yard (front or back) and/or the neighbors' yards and not a car goes by for hours
* The Safeways have carts that can seat 1 to 4 children and carry 2 weeks' worth of goodies
* The neighbor kids stop by and ask to play with the twins without charging me $20/hour for babysitting so I can have 25 minutes of peace to hustle dinner on the table
* The sound of crickets after dark, rather than sirens, screeching cabbie brakes, and raucous college kids first sampling Mad Dog 20/20
* Express DMV's
* People acknowledge your presence at bus stops and (gasp!) actually say g'morning
* The dogs are normal sized
* We know more neighbors in the other single-family homes on our block in 3 weeks than we did on our condo floor in 2 years
* All the big box stores and independent hardware stores are within a 10 minutes drive
* Drive through Mickey D's for coffee and ATMs
* My kids squealing with glee as they play in the yard (front or back) and/or the neighbors' yards and not a car goes by for hours
The town had a little fair a few weekends ago, complete with a huge inflatable slide (C wasn't interested, and it was near impossible to get Z off.) We sampled some fine American cuisine.
Corn dog, anyone?
Organic chocolate bunnies
Hey lady, why are you taking my picture?
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