I've read with interest all your (and others) posts about urban living. Your lifestyle is very nearly a foreign concept to me. While I've visited many very large cities, I can't begin to imagine living in one. It's no wonder your stress levels are so high......not to mention the fear factor. It seems to increase exponentially with population density. Sad, but true; one must live where one makes one's living.
My biggest personal fear (aside from a map-challenged terrorist) is an angry mountain lion, timber rattler, rabid wolf, or the well going down. Wish you could all live here in my beautiful Black Hills.............but then that would make THIS an urban area.
I know there are positives and negatives about all areas.
Please know that my thoughts and prayers are with each of you as you confront your daily experiences.
Thanks for your thoughts and prayers. I actually grew up in the near burbs, lived in NYC for a while, and now live in the far burbs on a fairly large tract of land that includes, a trout stream, lots of deer, coyote, turkey, and other kinds of wild life. The Catskill Mountain Preserve is less than an hours drive. In the not so distant past, I traveled to NYC two to three times a week or more for mostly business with pleasure mixed in, but now I go in only a couple times a month, although I've been in and out quite a bit more than that over the last few weeks. Traveling through the train stations and riding the subway are most stressful because they are the most vunerable to attack.
Thank you RR
~From a missed target of 911 Chicago