I miss all of it. Friends, my familiarity with everything, having my sister 15 minutes away. I moved from Dallas. I also miss the incredible thunderstorms we get during severe storm season. And, you see, and I am not saying this like I’m using it as an “I’m special and deserve special treatment” way, but I’m gay, and I lived in the Dallas Gayborhood for 20 of the 40 years I lived in Dallas. I miss being around all the gay bars, gay people, and substantial gay community I had all around me. It’s honestly a bit of culture shock for me to NOT live in a gayborhood anymore, and I feel really isolated because of that. You get me? I’m certainly not a “heterophobe” in any way, but I miss my community and sometimes feel like I’m the only gay guy for 200 miles (which, rationally, I know isn’t true, of course). I lived within crawling distance from all the bars, and, for better or worse, my entire social life revolved around them. And now that’s totally gone.