Growing up in the rural environs outside of Bad Axe, in Huron County, Michigan, I envisioned my future self moving to a bustling urban center far, far away - somewhere with lots of people, no trees, and where the flattened vowels of the michigan accent (check yours now!) would fade from my ears. Since then, I went to college, got married, and stayed in Michigan. And it’s looking more and more like I’ll be here for at least a while longer… I can still see myself moving at some point, but now that I have years invested in my mostly-OK job it seems less and less possible. Sure, Michigan’s economy just keeps getting worse as the rust belt gets rustier, and last week the high temps were below zero - but the Vernor’s and coney dogs keep me satisfied, and all I really care about is spanning time with the Bride of Spape anyway. After years living in relatively highly-populated areas, the other big surprise is that I actually think I don’t care about living in a city anymore - and that I might actually prefer being in the country. Not the our-nearest-neighbor-is-a-soybean-field country I grew up in, mind you - more of the our-yard-is-totally-big-enough-for-a-garden country that can still be found relatively cheaply around the Washtenaw area.

So anyway, we’re seriously looking at buying a house, something closer to the town where we both work than our current place. Nothing against Hamtramck, because this town is full of very friendly people, bars, bakeries, and delicious sausages; but gas money for the Volvo and the hours commuting back and forth to Ann Arbor are destroying me. So we are doing paperwork, meeting agents, and otherwise going bananas, but hopefully it will all be worth it soon when we’re tiling our bathroom, chopping wood for our (hopefully) fireplace, and hanging pegboard in the garage.

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