Reviews & Comments
Louisville, KY
Built to Scale -
3/17/2013Louisville is a great place to live.There's are strong family ties, good eating, and it wont take long before you see someone you know wherever you go.And compared to the east coast, the nicest too. Once I slid in the snow and got stuck in a ditch, so many people (in trucks) stopped to offer help before AAA arrived,that I literally ducked down in my seat so they would think the car was abandoned and keep going.Talk about a warm and comfy feeling. I told all my friends in MD about it and how that never would have happened there.
Louisville is a great place to live. I grew up in Louisville,my family then moved to MD when I was sixteen.We have since moved back to care for parents. As I mentioned the people are very nice, you can strike up a conversation with damn near anyone. The cost of living is great too. You can make it here and you don't have to make six figures to have a good life, nor do you have to have advanced education. In my opinion the only people who have it tough here, are the ones who choose to.
However, I find, that some of the same things that makes Louisville such a great place is also what makes it the worst.You see because you can make it here with such ease, that is exactly what people do. They get so comfortable in the simpleness that most don't push themselves for advancement or change.This leaves you with a bunch of under achievers who don't want to stir the pot and jeopardize their comfort.Never mind the bottom rank in education and dropout rates. The ones who can just put there kids in private school and the ones who can't just hope for the best. Never mind the pollution form beat down car exhaust and cloud bellowing factories that devour neighborhoods and lungs.
This should be ok for me,at least that 's what I keep telling myself, because I'm a bit older now(44) and make a little over 40k.I bought a four bedroom home in a nice neighborhood got my kid in one of the"better" schools.I should be ready to chill, Right? No stress no mess.
So say I can settle, chillax, into this comfort zone, what about my children? (15and23). Will they dream, just not big,or will they step out of their comfort zone and accept the challenges it takes to make dreams come true.Will the comfort contagion cease their growth by age 25.
You'll have to weigh it before you come. For me It's six in one hand and half a dozen in the other.