Having lived in both, I've found that there are things I'd miss about each if I lived in the other.

Washington DC and my current town have nothing in common. Not even the language! ha ha My town has 9,000 people in it and 27,000 cows. After 5:00, we have to drive 30 minutes to get to a grocery store. Our fast food restaurant consists of one Subway. We couldn't support a Blimpies at the same time, they moved out. I love small town life but hate small town minds and attitudes. I love the peace and tranquility of being able to sit outside and not hear anything but the birds, but hate bringing my garbage cans down a 400' driveway at night (because I forgot to do it during the day) and being afraid of things that go bump in the night...like coyotes! And I love that I'm not afraid for my children when they go out to play (except when they find the machete I keep hiding on them) but I hate the 45 minute ride to the nearest city with any semblance of cultural.

Bottom line, I don't forsee moving anytime soon. So I'll be chewed alive at the bottom of the driveway while my machete wielding children bitch about having to go to a museum because the ride takes longer than the batteries in their gameboys last.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.