Every person will have his/her own list of qualities needed for the best place to live. Here’s mine: Kooky, Affordable, Progressive, Urbane with Transportation, also known by city planners as the highly transitional KAPUT neighborhood. Okay, I fudged that a little when I realized if I had a K instead of a D, I could spell a clever acronym, but it is true that nearly every wonderful place I have lived started out lowly, had its zenith and then became wildly popular, overpriced, and again went kaput, at least by my standards. Diversity (the lost D) is an important aspect of my best place to live so I include that in kooky, as I’m afraid there are large segments of the population that still find diversity to be a frighteningly kooky concept. Kooky also implies unique. When surrounded by Walmarts and fast-food chains, it all begins to look the same to me. Urbane is not necessarily urban, but a certain amount of street smarts and savvy that respects diversity.
I hope some of you will comment on the best place you ever lived, or still do, as there may be one more move in my future.
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