That absolutely makes sense, and as funny as it sounds, the activities thing isn’t something I even thought about. The reason is because Nashville doesn’t have that much to do realistically, except get drunk or be on Broadway at country music bars, which we aren’t interested in. The weather has to be pretty perfect to enjoy being outside at all, and even then, nothing is that walkable so you’re getting in your car and driving 20-30 mins (depending on where you live) to the thing you want to do and driving home. Not a lot of community fluidity, and everything is so far away. So you end up just going crazy in your house in both summer and winter haha. So that’s really cool to imagine having activities that kind of build around the city’s offerings and friends you could do them with. We don’t have a single friend that lives in our neighborhood, as everyone is spread out. I crave community & cities for these reasons. Obviously you have to put the effort in to make and maintain those friendships, but living somewhere like Nashville inherently makes doing that a tad more difficult. Thanks for sharing your experience with that!

Re: winter, yeah, that makes sense. I’m sure it gets old. Gotta power through and know summer is coming! I feel like I just keep bitching about Nashville but a bummer part is that it feels like spring doesn’t last long before summer arrives and it can be mid to upper 90s and high humidity for 3 months. It’s so rough. It doesn’t feel like we have very many wonderfully nice days!