‘The best $5,929.10 I ever spent: moving back to the Midwest’
2nd April 2019
Even Vox admits it: Midwest is best.
You will notice that this and all other ‘moved from nowhere to the Big City’ stories deal with people who are ‘creative’, i.e. writers, musicians, actors, and other ‘artists’. Nobody ever grew up in Wide Spot, Nebraska, and said ‘I think I’ll move to Noo Yawk to pursue my dream of being a welder/carpenter/plumber/machinist/electrician’. In this particular case, what the author loves, and what reconciles her to the move, is that she managed to find the essential components of her Left Coast rom-com lifestyle in, wonder of wonders, flyover country. She undoubtedly considers the term ‘vibrant’ to be a good thing.
The problem with such ‘creatives’ is that what they create doesn’t last — it’s not something you can hold in your hand, sell at a garage sale, or hand on to your grandkids. Except for the needle-point few who become rich/famous, it’s all ephemeral. I guarantee that in 100 years nobody will have any knowledge of what she has done — especially if, as seems likely, she leaves no children behind her. She is a Crustian from Crustian roots (father: college administrator) and such people do not leave footprints in the sands of time. Once she is gone, nobody will ever miss her, nor will any memory of her remain; and that’s a sad thing.