Five Years In Peoria
So it's certainly belated, but Carl and I have lived in Peoria for five years now. It, in some ways, doesn't feel like it's been all that long -- after all, it seems like just yesterday when, for example, Carl and I were pissed because someone was still living in our apartment., but now this is my fifth Halowe'en living in this same apartment.
Life has changed, certainly, and in a way I sometimes feel that the longer I'm away from Chicago and my friends and family there, the more distant in other manners that the relationship becomes. I know I'm, unfortunately, not as close to several people now that I'm living futher away, and it's frustrating. I'd still love to go back, at some point in time, but fiscally I'm not sure how that is a feasibility.
We still have the apartment for another year, which (currently) silences our desire to be homeowners. Prices are cheaper here, certainly, and I admit I'm split as to homeownership here. Indeed, having our own place would be great, but it's also another step of permenance in the area. Is the area horrible? No, not at all, but I miss being in a more metropolitan area; I miss my friends and family.
Life has changed, certainly, and in a way I sometimes feel that the longer I'm away from Chicago and my friends and family there, the more distant in other manners that the relationship becomes. I know I'm, unfortunately, not as close to several people now that I'm living futher away, and it's frustrating. I'd still love to go back, at some point in time, but fiscally I'm not sure how that is a feasibility.
We still have the apartment for another year, which (currently) silences our desire to be homeowners. Prices are cheaper here, certainly, and I admit I'm split as to homeownership here. Indeed, having our own place would be great, but it's also another step of permenance in the area. Is the area horrible? No, not at all, but I miss being in a more metropolitan area; I miss my friends and family.