Mixed Feelings
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3/3/2016
I have very mixed feelings about this community. Lived here from 2010 - 2014. Its a very beautiful area and a tourist attraction due to its beauty and interesting places to visit.
So it was fun living near so much beauty - that much is true. The city does like music, and so do I - so that was something I did enjoy while there too.
Employment was difficult for me. I worked in the public school system, but it almost seemed to me to be the only avenue open to me. I did not have good qualifications for Education, and even though I gained good experience and do remember the children and some coworkers fondly - its not really the work I needed to be financially lucretive - especially after a divorce.
I also have to remark that even though I still have friends who belong to the area's various churches, the area is heavily conservative and fundamentalist. If you are in accord with that, by all means, it will be a good area for you!
But myself, I'm not heavily fundamentalist and I had struggles with this. It became quite personally painful to me at one point.
So mixed feelings - I have still have some friends from there. I am occasionally homesick for it.
But had a very hard time finding a church I fit in, and also had problems with proper employment as well.
I sometimes noted an angry or judgmental attitude, but I have experienced worse. I think if you are married and have family - its likely a great place to live!
As a single, divorced woman, I had a difficult time, sometimes, there.
Candace | ,