The country. I grew up in the country in a small town. I wish now that I had cherished it more. It sucked having to drive 30, 45 minutes for more than a corner grocery/gas store, to buy clothes, get fast food, go shopping. Before I was in high school, the nearest malls were over an hour's drive away until they built one closer, 30-45 minutes away. The suburbs are encroaching on my hometown as Houston continues to sprawl, and people can't make a living on family farms, so farmland keeps getting sold to housing subdivisions. Soon my country childhood town will be part of the larger suburbs of Houston. The towns I used to drive to for shopping or the bigger library (back when a person actually had to go to the library to do research as the internet was primitive at best, and you were lucky if you had dialup) are packed with stores now, more stores in than the area I live in now (and this area, while still a Houston suburb is actually closer to Houston proper, it is just not super appealing with chemical plants everywhere and so close to the ocean and likely in the path of future hurricanes as many past hurricanes have hit this area).

Did you learn cursive in school? If you have children who are school aged or grown, did they learn cursive in school?