Then they would realize how good they have it.
Live around Hershey, PA now. Fishing lakes all around, hunting fields all around, little traffic, good wages, good looking women. Am I missing something from living in the big burgs? I will answer that myself, yes, Major League Sports.
I miss living in a big city.
Your not missing anything, you have a TV dont ya? :D
I live in FL (since 1977), but grew up in Michigan across the lake from Chicago. I have been a die-hard St. Louis Cardinal fan since I picked up the opening day game of 1967 St. Louis Cardinals baseball season on KMOX on my little GE AM clock radio. Harry Carey, and Jack Buck made me a Cardinal fan.
But 45 or so miles across Lake Michigan was the city of Chicago, and all the media influence of it. TV, radio, newspapers were all pretty much dominated in my little SW corner of Michigan by them.
My first MLB baseball game was the first game after the All-Star break in 1968.The game was at Wrigley Field and the Cubs played the Los Angeles Dodgers. We sat on the left field side,(Dodger's side), and were 3 seats away from the bulpen pitcher's mound.In the 7th inning, Don Drysdale was made to warm-up in the bullpen ( I think so that folks who came to see him could at least say they saw him right before he retired), and to be less that 10ft away from him durring an actual MLB game was and is a very cherished memory.)
This next statement is coming from one of the most die-hard Cardinal fan's you will ever meet(me), but in this freeper's VERY humble opinion, I wish that every baseball fan could be indoctrinated to the game my having their baseball game virginity "lost" at Wrigley Field.
I've seen at least 50 games there( a VERY conservative #), maybe six games at 35th and the Dan Ryan(5 at the old Comiskey, and one game in 1992 at the new park), one game at Shea in 1984, and two games in Atlanta's Fulton Co. Stadium, and one game at Tropicana Field in Tama-St Pete,
but there is nothing to compare a baseball game at Wrigley Field.
I have never been to Busch Stadium, and looks like I will never get the chance since they are tearing it down two weeks after the Cardinals last 2005 season game,( and with a team RISP average of 3 for 35 ( or something just as comatose) that sorta means I will never get to attend a game there.
But really I have been to Busch Stadium in a way that I will NEVER forget, because two wonderful men and a 50,000 watt clear channel AM station from St. Louis Mo, took me there and every other ballpark the Cardinals played in while the two of them worked there. This freeper was made not just a Cardinal Fan by Harry Carey and Jack Buck, but a TRUE BASEBALL FAN by them.
...and that's why this die-hard Cardinal's Fan wishes that every one could see their first game at Wrigley Field. It's almost the last real pure, natural, almost untouched by time place to enjoy a BASEBALL game, no matter who is playing on the field.
...And in answer to your post,(....finally after my rant), I too miss the "big city", and mostly because of BASEBALL, IMHO the greatest "game" of all.