I can agree with you on this point: I wish you had stayed in Newark, NJ, too. It sounds like Winchester is a really bad fit for you.
I came from a big city metro area in the north, and was utterly charmed by Winchester. Of course, it never occurred to me to move to a community with the intention of recreating the mess I left behind. I fled high crime, high taxes, and miserable winters to be seduced by the smell of summer honeysuckle, natural beauty and wilderness, small-town folksiness, affordability, and charm of this small southern city.
The city I grew up in now looks like a war zone, and is regularly in the news for violent crime and murder. Meanwhile, Winchester (and surrounding area) is still a civilized, friendly place to call home, where traditions still matter, where the Church is still a living, breathing force for God’s goodness, and where my life expanded to include a husband, children, and ties to people, community, and institutions that lift up places like Winchester. I may have been born a big-city Yankee, but I was reborn into a small-city southerner just as surely as I was reborn into a life in Christ.
Ann |
Winchester, VA |
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