Every time I go back to Greenville I feel like Rip Van Winkle 👴🏼

I’ve lost some of my small town roots, things have changed. They’re not like the way they were as a child, things are more built up the families and friends I once knew moved away. The innocence of yesteryear gone. While the mountains and my old High School are still here, it’s not the same world I remember.

Eventually I want to move back to a small town but not like New York. Too many laws and regulations, too many taxes and too little freedom. So much about living in Upstate NY, like living in rural Northern California is about work arounds and trying to make due in a state that is primarily urbanized. And as ideology grows stronger and urban and rural people grow father apart it’s only going to grow harder to live here.