How the City Hurts Your Brain
from the Boston Globe/Boston.com article
so let's all finally run away and live in the forest, ok?
this overstimulation seems exactly like what i deal with in SF though the phenomenon is more complex as it relates to my variety of disparate social networks.
i wonder if i really would be happier in the forest. i fear isolation from friends and social activities, but i don't need a thousand choices. i just need a few good ones. i get pretty unhappy without my friends around, but i've never tested that in a stable, non-urban setting. though my ideal is living in a small wooded city. why don't i do that? well i don't have any friends who do. maybe portland? i don't know.
that and i have some other things to say and then i need to get to work