> while still remaining close to my job, friends, and family. So you stayed in proximity to enjoy the benefits? I'm not downplaying it BTW, I've been in that

> while still remaining close to my job, friends, and family. So you stayed in proximity to enjoy the benefits? I'm not downplaying it BTW, I've been in that situation before. It's a little different when you're from a city, and it's more than just exotic food at midnight. I'm from a city too, that's where my life was, that's where my family is. I have experienced first hand my little suburb becoming an urban-clinging-onto-suburban-delusion hellscape. Still though, we stayed in proximity and expected the world to stagnate for us. I realized that's not going to happen and I left. The city will grow, and like it or not you never left it, you just avoided the trade off for a while.