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I am trying to find someone -- anyone -- who can tell me one positive aspect of living in a small town.

I am a lifelong city kid. By this time next week, I will be a permanent resident of a town of 13,000. It's the kind of town where you can walk to the butcher and the pharmacy and they'll run a tab for you. (What? You didn't think those still existed? Me neither. Apparently I was wrong.)

I have spent the entire freaking day just trying to get a freaking telephone. It is 10 miles from a town of 63,000, which is the biggest in the area. There is exactly ONE cellular provider that serves the area. It is not mine. I NEED a cell phone. It's one of the non-negotiable requirements for my job. So I'm going to have to cough up $150 to cancel the remaining 11 months of my contract if I want a cell phone (and can actually find a provider).

Next, I thought I'd try the phone company. I hadn't intended to get a landline, but after all the hassles with the cell phone, it seemed necessary. I would like to be able to let people know how to reach me once I leave my sister's. But, although you can set up an account and get a phone number online, it takes them 3 business days to get back to you and let you know when it will be turned on. 3 business days is Wednesday. I am going there to stay on Friday.

Furthermore, unlike life in the big city, the cable company does not believe in weekend appointments or 24/7 customer service. I couldn't get an appointment to get my cable (and computer) hooked up till the 30th. I am going to be there on the 27th. So far, with no phone. And no computer. And no cell. The cave is a metaphorical thing for this bear -- I didn't intend actually to LIVE in one.

Someone tell me why I thought this move would be a good idea, please.



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yeah i used to live in a small town when i was younger. i lived in northern minnesota in a town called alberts with my mother and father and our rottweiler named Lorgabolee. We lived a simple life. Everyday I would go out back to cut wood and my mother would be making her famous stews in the kitchen. My father worked as a software developer for a small software company that had its headquarters located up in that neck of the woods. When I grew up I began to realize that this small town life was not right for me. I knew that I was going to have to move to a new place where there are more jobs and more restaurants to go eat at (especially with chicken wings). When i was 21 and had enough money I decided to move down to minneapolis. I drove down there in my car and attended a local college to become a software developer just like my dad. I got my degree in software engineering and got a job with Adobe systems. I worked that their headquarters in Blaine MN. I worked there for about a year when Adobe informed me that they were going to offer me a job down in Florida. I decided that the money was worth and I moved out of my apartment down to Tampa, which is where i live now. every day after work i go to a local bar and drink 20 shots of tequilla (unless it is my birthday. on my birthday i treat myself to 40 shots). I pass out very soon afterwards and fall down onto the floor. I remain unconscious until about 5 am. At 5 am i wake up and begin the long walk home. ( I do not want to drink and drive). I walk about 200 feet to my apartment to take a quick shower and get my clothes on. After I am ready I began a 1.34 mile walk to work. I hang out at work and work on writing some programs for the computers. My boss walks by and tells me what a great job i am doing. When it is christmas i fly up to minneapolis (where my parents live now) and i have a christmas celebration with my parents, sister, and cousins. it is a wonderful holiday celebration. One time I flew up on a Boeing 737, and on time i was on a S20 Airbus. My favorite kind of dog is a rottweiler, and my favorite alcoholic beverage is Jack Daniels Original Jamacian 40 proof Whiskey. Hoeeeee that is some powerful stuff. It will sharpen you up and get you ready for a bit of the ol' ultra-violence. Sometimes I go to the Korova Milkbar in downtown St. Petersburk. The Milkbar serves milk-plus, milk-plus vellocet, Mencemade, and Drendcrom. Right now my psychiatrist has me taking about 3 different types of psychiatric medication. I am taking Abilify, Lexapro, and Valium to help me calm down at night and go to sleep. He told me that Valium is addictive and that I need to be careful not to build up a tolerance to it. My therapist said that my life is going down the tubes, but I think that my therapist is full of it. I think that it is time for me to go to bed because I have been up for 72 hours straight now because there was a kung-fu marathon going on in the USA network. I think that I am going to have to take a Valium in order to go to bed because right now I am very excited because tomorrow I am going to go to My Job to write some more computer programs on the computer. I think that Easy Rider is a very good movie and I think that Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson are some of my favorite actors. I think that someday I want to buy a motorcycle and ride across the country just like them. I just went out to see Jack Nicholson's new movie The Departed, and I will tell you this it is a very good movie and I think that you should go to see if you have not seen it yet. I think that you should go out to your theatre right now to watch these amazing movie. I think that you should go to see it because it is one of the best movies that I have ever seen and I think that Jack Nicholson and LeNardo DeCapprio did a very good job on it. I think that Milos Forman is a very good movie director and when I grow up I want to be just like him. Sometimes I sit in my bed and wonder what it would be like if I could just blast off into deep space on a rocket ship and just exist for a few thousand years without having to think about anyting. I think that is what the Zen people are trying to get at with the whole "meditation" thing. Meditation is just another way to get you to relax and clear your mind of all preoccupations for a few hours and just focus on the here and now of what is happening to your body. You need to develop the power of mindfull awareness so you can focus on anything that you want and turn off the "Movies Of your mind".