What do you love about where you live?

There are quite a few things I can choose from for this prompt. The only problem is where to start?

I live in a decent sized city (compared to others within a few hundred miles) so there are plenty of options for restaurants and stores. Yet, we’re surrounded by open farm land, so I live close enough to get OUT of the city and see a change of scenery (and get away from the people).

My family lives outside of this city in rural communities, but because of the way everything opens up when you leave the city it doesn’t feel like they’re far away. The time it takes for me to travel those distances here might otherwise double or triple in other parts of the country because of traffic.

We get four seasons here, which is great, but sometimes the snow and ice can get bad. (Not Dallas Icepocalypse bad, mind you, because our local DoT absolutely has to be prepared for those situations and our infrastructure is set up appropriately.) Thankfully, I now have the option and ability to work from home if the weather gets bad, so that kind of makes up for it.

I think those are probably the top of the list of things I “love” about where I live. There’s always room for improvement, or I could work towards moving somewhere else if I REALLY felt the need, but beggars can’t be choosers, right?